Friedrich Nietzsche
From my life Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 In the year of Nietzsche’s birth, Arthur Schopenhauer publishes a second edition of Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung [The World as Will and Representation], including an additional volume. 1854 Music: Nietzsche hears a performance of Handel’s Messiah in May of this year, which inspires him to compose his own music. 1856 Music: Nietzsche composes two sonatas, one in D major, another in G Major: Sonatine Op. 11, and “Orkadal” Trauerspiel mit Overtu fur Klavier four hdg [tragedy for piano and four hands]. While in the Naumburg church, he listens to a performance of Mozart’s Requiem. On Christmas day, he receives transcriptions of Haydn’s symphonies for piano; also, he seeks out the scores of two Beethoven sonatas, Op. 49 and Op. 7. Writing: With boyhood friend Wilhelm Pinder, Nietzsche writes his first work, a short play entitled “Die Gotter auf dem Olymp” [The Gods on Olympus]. A list of characters included Jupiter, Mercury, Apollo, Diana, Juno, and Pallas Athena; fittingly, if not presciently, Nietzsche, who later said of himself he was not a man, but dynamite, played Mars, the god of war. 1857 Music: Composes “Allegro” for piano. Hears Haydn’s Schopfund [The Creation]. Other musical compositions include Geburtstagssinphonie, Marcia, 2 Skizzen, Sonata, Overtur fu Streichorchester, “Es zieht ein stiller Engel,” and 4 stimmiger satz und figuierter Choral. Writing: Poem – “Kleine Weihnachtsgabe fur meine liebe Mutter” [A little Christmas present for my dear mother]. 1858 Music: In July, hears Handel’s Samson. Composes Fugen (fragment); Missa; Hoch tut euch auf, a sketch for choir and orchestra, which Nietzsche based on Psalm 24: 7 – “Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors! That the King of glory may come in.” Another sketch was Einleitung [Introduction] for piano duet.
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