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
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was not only a philosopher who loved and wrote about music; he was also a musician, pianist, and composer. In this ground-breaki
This unfinished essay on Aesthetics is one of his earliest commentaries on beauty, art and language. Here he asserts that music is the primary and more profound
A prevailing belief among Russia’s cultural elite in the early twentieth century was that the music of composers such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Aleksandr Scriab
Renowned philosopher and prominent French critic François Noudelmann engages the musicality of Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Roland Barthes, all o