Liebert, Georges. Nietzsche and Music.(Book review)

From: The Review of Metaphysics | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

LIEBERT, Georges. Nietzsche and Music. Translated by David Pellauer and Graham Parkes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. x + 291. Cloth, $38.00--The title of this translation of Nietzsche et la musique (Paris, 1995) is slightly misleading; more apt would be something like "Nietzsche and the Composers". Chapter Three, for example, points to Nietzsche's "affinities with Schumann", and the central five chapters tell the history of Nietzsche's turbulent relationship with Richard Wagner and his music. The last three touch on Gustav Mahler's and Richard Strauss's respective ...

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