The Music of Friedrich Nietzsche - Mein Platz vor der Tur

[yoSinDios]

Nietzche isn't nazi, never

[composer2510]

the singer is an alarm hooter?

[mwpunk182]

i think this may also be my favorite, and thank you much for the translation!

[Carlinfan1]

Nietzsche's last published words, as far as I know, were from Ecce Homo, and they were "Have I been understood?" I've always loved Nietzsche but now after hearing this little song I say  "Yes Brother, I understand you."

[obiwanobiwan13]

@Carlinfan1 And what is tragic, however...

On the whole, he was NOT understood, in his own time or in times to come.

But he DID also say, in "The Anti-Christ," that "Some are born posthumously."

With Nietzsche, you almost get the feeling he KNEW he'd be misunderstood and unappreciated in his time... you get the feeling he knew a lot, and, from this music, we can see he FELT quite a lot as well.

Let us all strive to be out own, individual and creatively unbounded, Free Spirits!

[Carlinfan1]

@obiwanobiwan13 Dice to that, and you can hear here what he seems to have meant wheh he wrote of music, not the grandiose sagas of a Wagner but the short and sweet, sentimental lieders of a Schumann.

[obiwanobiwan13]

@Carlinfan1 I honestly think Nietzsche would've loved opera, as he loved music and considered tragedy the truest form of art and art a true construct and reflection of our being.

Somehow I get the feeling operas like Bizet's "Carmen" and then the works of Tchaikovsky might've appealed, and then I think it a great shame he never lived to hear Puccini, the master of the heavy opera, his musical notes oozing tragedy and fallen heroes and artists..."La Boheme," anyone?

Cheers, Free Spirits!

[Carlinfan1]

@obiwanobiwan13 yeah, good point.

[Carlinfan1]

@obiwanobiwan13 Cheers!

[Foucks]

@obiwanobiwan13 In "The Birth of Tragedy" he describes the opera as something that present the degeneration of man. I doubt Puccini would have changed his mind.

[obiwanobiwan13]

@Foucks Yet in "The Case of Wagner" Nietzsche writes that he adored Bizet's "Carmen," commenting "This music appears perfect to me."

So surely he didn't despise ALL opera...he comments in "Beyond Good and Evil" (I believe it is that work) on the merits of different nationalities' art and music, and he does praise some, for the same reason he praises Napoleon--

Napoleon was a unique man trying to take control with his will.

Bizet's opera exudes feelings of power.

Will to Power="Carmen."

[tiakpark]

@obiwanobiwan13 If you'd like to see a REAL Napleon, watch the anime Code Geass. Lolouch is a good guy, a bad guy; a liberator, a tyrant; a hero, a villian; Good, Evil. He comes closest to being a real Overman in my opinion.

[Pericordio]

It's really nice.

[Jnmcda0]

This is my favorite of Nietzsche's compositions. For those wondering, here is the translation: The path along the golden fence, how beautiful it was! At dawn, I used to walk from hence up to my knees in grass. I played there until eventide with pebbles and with sand. Grandfather took me home at night and held my little hand. How I wish that I could see the world, grown tall and tough Grandfather says: oh, let it be! It will happen soon enough.

[Jnmcda0]

(continuing)

And so it was: I did not miss

to roam through many lands.

But, it did not bring me half the bliss

of holding grandpa's hands.

[pauobiol]

very nice, thanks for the lyrics!