The music of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Started by Peter1953, Saturday 03 March 2012, 14:21

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Peter1953

We know that Nietzsche was not a professional musician and didn't get any musical education. He was self-educated. However, he considered music as an essential part of human life, so to speak.
There are quite a few CD's featuring his piano music, chamber music including songs, and so on. Two CD's are Compositions of his Youth (1857-63), rather extensively and critically (not very positive) reviewed by John Bell Young (2003) on Amazon.com (see here)
and Compositions of his Mature Years (1864-82). Personally I feel very attracted to his solo piano music on this disc.
An interesting and informative website is http://nietzschemusicproject.org/

I'm wondering what members think of the music of this remarkable person, who influenced so many people.