Nietzsche

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Yesterday I talked with two good friends on an aphorism of Nietzsche, Sine Musica Nulla Vita. I will come back to this, also I think there will be much room here for the philosopher who brought the hammer in the gardens of Akademos, and raised both great enthusiasm and unconditional hatred.

For now, I will give you just a glimpse (I mentioned already this opinion of Nietzsche on Beethoven and Mozart):

La musique de Beethoven.... Innocence de la mélodie : c’est de la musique sur de la musique... Ses mélodies... lui sont des réminiscences transfigurées d’un monde meilleur, un peu comme Platon imaginait ses Idées. – Mozart a de tout autres rapports avec ses mélodies ; il ne trouve pas ses inspirations en écoutant de la musique, mais en regardant la vie, la vie la plus animée.

(http://leportique.revues.org/index212.html)

[Music of Beethoven... Innocence of the melody: it is music on music... His melodies... they are to him transfigured reminiscences of a better world, a little as Plato imagined his Ideas. – Mozart has totally other relationship with his melodies; he does not find his inspirations by listening to music, rather by looking at the life, the most animated life]

• With Nietzsche, Down the Labyrinth
• a Lied of Prinz Vogelfrei - Sils Maria - and Chopin
• another Lied of Prinz Vogelfrei - Nach neuen Meeren
• another Lied of Prinz Vogelfrei - Diesen ungewissen Seelen
• Late Spring - the Authority of Nietzsche
• Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie - and Nietzsche again
• Ich bin kein Mensch, ich bin Dynamit
• Mario Vargas Llosa, Nietzsche en Sils-Maria

(German and Nordic Literature)