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Music for the Superman
Nietzsche and the Great Composers
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Friedrich Nietzsche regarded himself as the most musical philosopher - he played the piano, wrote his own compositions and espoused a philosophy encouraging all to dance for joy. Central to his life and his ideas were the music and personality of Richard Wagner, whom he both loved and loathed at different times of his life. Nietzsche had considerable influence on contemporary composers, many of whom employed Wagnerian sonorities set to his words (although he had by then broken with Wagner, advocating Bizet instead). This book explores Nietzsche's relationship with Wagner, the influence of his writings on the music of Strauss, Mahler, Delius, Scriabin, Busoni and others, his place in Thomas Mann's critique of German Romantic music in the novel Doctor Faustus and his impact on 20th-century popular music.
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'Against the background of the familiar thought that Nietzsche's apparent rejection of Wagnerism was never truly an escape from Wagnerism, Huckvale provides useful reminders of the extent to which Germanic culture itself - Strauss and Mahler, Busoni and Schoenberg in music, Thomas Mann in literature - acted out the challenges and possible consequences of that failure to escape.' - Arnold Whittall, The Wagner Journal