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September 11, 2009
On CD: Nietzsche's Piano Music
Every few years, there's a new recording of Friedrich Nietzsche's music, and a CD of his complete piano works, performed by Michael Krücker, just appeared this summer. The interest, of course, is (to paraphrase Samuel Johnson) not that the music was written well, but that it was written at all. I wasn't actually familiar with Nietzsche's compositional activities, and there's a reason for that: he wrote most of his work as a teenager, after which he largely abandoned composing. He was also self-taught. This is, in short, eager juvenilia. It may be mainly of interest to die-hard Nietzsche fans. On the other hand, it's not unpleasant to the ear. It's also striking that Nietzsche's music partakes of some of the same rhetorical flourishes as his philosophical writings: both have what you might term an aphoristic grandiosity. Many of the works on this disk are mere fragments, but most of
Originally from The Classical Beat – Classical Music Forum – washingtonpost.com, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Sep 11, 2009 at 12:13 PM