The Music of Friedrich Nietzsche - Mein Platz vor der Tur

"What is the seal of liberation? — No longer being ashamed in front of oneself." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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[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.

[yoSinDios]

Nietzche isn't nazi, never

[composer2510]

the singer is an alarm hooter?

[pauobiol]

very nice, thanks for the lyrics!

[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.

[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."

[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.

[Carlinfan1]

@obiwanobiwan13 Cheers!

[Carlinfan1]

@obiwanobiwan13 yeah, good point.

[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 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.