Abstract: With his known talent as a imprecator, Mirbeau, a music columnist, made an innovative contribution by attacking the listeners of his time. Simple music lover, he denounces the establishment of the official criticism, and defends the music of the future by means his persiflage: a form of expression of thought to which traditional rhetoric makes no place but whose effectiveness rests – for those with a caustic spirit – on an in-depth understanding of the figures in the discourse.
