Nietzsche and Music

Nietzsche and Music
Author: Georges LiƩbert
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2004-01-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0226480879

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He also explores Nietzsche's listening habits, his playing and style of composition, and his many contacts in the musical world, including his controversial and contentious relationship with Richard Wagner. For Nietzsche, music gave access to a realm of wisdom that transcended thought. Music was Nietzsche's great solace; in his last years, it was his refuge from madness."--Jacket.