Nietzsche: Complete Piano Music

Download & Streams: Physical purchase: Brilliant Classics Spotify: Brilliant Classics Facebook: Like countless other well-educated German lads, Friedrich Nietzsche took up the piano as a child, and immersed himself in the world of Beethoven and Schumann. But unlike most of them, he pursued music with a single-minded devotion which would later distinguish his philosophical writings. During his teenage years he composed fugues, sonatas and fantasies, as well as more ambitious works such as a Mass, a Miserere, even a Christmas Oratorio: a sublime irony coming from one whose most infamous pronouncement would be that ‘God is dead. We have killed him.’ University studies in Basel put paid both to his Christianity, but when he returned to composition he wrote songs which are now the best-known part of his own music, and have received several recordings. Having composed the Hymn to Friendship in 1874, at the ripe age of 24, he gave up writing music for several years but returned to itlater in life, and he could still play Beethoven sonatas by heart once afflicted by the ravages of syphilis. Composer : Friedrich Nietzsche Artist :Jeroen van Veen piano 00:00:00 Heldenklage, NWV 2 00:02:33 Ungarischer Marsch, NWV 5 00:05:06 Édes titok 00:08:18 So lach doch mal, NWV 9 00:10:08 Da geht ein Bach, NWV 10b 00:12:07 In Mondschein auf der Puszta, NWV 11 00:13:50 Ermanarich, Symphonische Dichtung 00:24:35 Unserer Altvordern eingedenk, NWV 13: I. Mazurka 00:26:09 Unserer Altvordern eingedenk, NWV 13: II. Aus der Czarda 00:28:11 Das zerbrochene Ringlein 00:33:50 Albumblatt 00:37:39 Das Fragment an sich, NWV 35 00:42:31 Hymnus an die Freundschaft, NWV 42: I. Vorspiel 00:47:36 Hymnus an die Freundschaft, NWV 42: II. Hymnus erste Strophe 00:49:17 Hymnus an die Freundschaft, NWV 42: Zwischenspiel 00:55:50 Hymnus an die Freundschaft, NWV 42: IV. Hymnus zweite Strophe 00:57:23 Hymnus an die Freundschaft, NWV 42: V. Zweites Zwischenspiel5’10 01:02:34 Hymnus an die Freundschaft, NWV 42: VI. seht Fest 01:04:01 Hymnus an die Freundschaft, NWV 42: VII. Hymnus dritte Strophe