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Though the publication of Nietzsche's complete scores in 1976 brought his music to the attention of scholars, two fine CDs from Newport Classic should introduce it to a wider audience. In Piano Music of Friedrich Nietzsche, John Bell Young plays 14 solo works and is joined by Constance Keene in two pieces for four hands. In The Music of Friedrich Nietzsche, Young is again the pianist, joined at times by violin and a second piano, as well as by the excellent lyric tenor John Aler for 16 songs...
...WITHOUT MUSIC, LIFE would be an error," Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote. The influential German philosopher (1844-1900) had an abiding, often passionate interest in music and wrote celebrated treatises both for and against the work of Wagner. Yet only a few specialists know that Nietzsche composed music himself...
...people know that the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was also a composer of some accomplishment, and two new CDs should introduce his music to a wider audience. One CD consists of 16 works for the piano, while the other disc contains 16 songs set to poems by Nietzsche, R?ckert, Pushkin and others. Most of the pieces on both CD's were composed in Nietzsche's youth, between 1861 1864. The piano works show a definite lack of formal training but a "true melodic gift," says TIME reviewer Elliott Ravetz, and the songs are "genuinely affecting...
After tying up a gallery security guard, thieves in Frankfurt, Germany, managed to make off with three works by Romantic painters J.M.W. Turner and Caspar David Friedrich valued at $42 million. Meanwhile, across the ocean at a warehouse on Boston's waterfront, a 1786 portrait of Thomas Jefferson worth at least $1 million was lifted from a metal and concrete safe...
Furthermore, Jett was known for his peculiar fascination with the symphonies of Gustav Mahler, the poetry of Lord Byron, and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche...