Now it is the weekend, so we must sing. Did you know that Nietzche wrote music? I remember hearing this through a glass. Now we can listen to some of his compositions with John Bell Young, Constance Keene and Thomas Coote on piano. Singing is John Aler, tenor. Nicholas Eanet is on violin.
Nietzsche: Einleitung (Introduction)
Nietzsche: Unendlich (Infinity) Transcribed by John Bell Young from the original song. John Aler, tenor; John Bell Young, piano
Nietzsche: Hymn to Friendship – Prologue, Festival of Friends at the Temple of Friendship
Nietzsche: Prayer to Life (Gebet an das Leben) John Aler, tenor; John Bell Young, piano.
Nietzsche: A Brook Goes By (Da Geht ein Bach) Transcribed by John Bell Young from the original song. John Aler, tenor; John Bell Young, piano
Nietzsche: Echoes of New Year’s Eve (Nachklang einer Sylvesternacht), with Processional Song, Peasant Dance and The Pealing of Bells. For Piano four hands. John Bell Young and Constance Keene
Nietzsche: New Year’s Eve (Eine Sylvesternacht). Nicholas Eanet, violin; John Bell Young, piano
Nietzsche: Manfred Meditation (after Byron) Piano four-hands. John Bell Young and Thomas Coote
Nietzsche: Serenade (Standchen) John Aler, tenor; John Bell Young, piano
Nietzsche: From Days of Youth (Aus der Jugendzeit) John Aler, tenor; John Bell Young, piano
Nietzsche: My Place by the Door (Mein Platz vor der Tur) John Aler, tenor; John Bell Young, piano
Nietzsche: The Young Fisherwoman (Junge Fischerin) John Aler, tenor; John Bell Young, piano
Nietzsche: Invocation (Beschworung) John Aler, tenor; John Bell Young, piano
Nietzsche: Glad and Gladder (Gern und Gerner) John Aler, tenor; John Bell Young, piano
Nietzsche: Just as Grapevines Sway (Wie sich Rebenranken schwingen) John Aler, tenor; John Bell Young, piano
I found these compositions on the Nietzche Channel and they remind me of a certain musical style in Regin Dahl.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Very interesting post.
I didn’t know Friedrich Nietzche wrote music before this post.
I found this blog plugged at Jennifer’s.
thank you for sharing that. i will give a listen. hope you are well and warm…
Hi Barbie and yes! Although I want to go on strike by not turning on heat this winter. Not sure I can do it but it would be great to confuse the energy companies in this way.
Thanks for sharing this with us. I had no idea Nietzsche wrote music.
Renegade and Dave – thanks for your visits! Isn’t it fun, thinking of Nietzche playing the piano and singing soulful songs? 😉
P.S. Listen to the New Year’s Eve one – it is long and really lovely.
P.P.S. I think I have found my perfect writing music – at least for writing on poetry at this time.
Hello
I am sorry to bother you, but I just discovered your lovely website. Unfortunately, you have uploaded my recordings of the music of Friedrich Nietzsche., and while I appreciate your interest, these are copyrighted materials that are owned by Sony Classical. You must remove them at once, or rest assured, Sony, which is absolutely ruthless about such things, will stop at nothing to track you down, wherever you may be in the world, and bring suit against you. I don’t even own the copyrights, and when I approached Sony about acquiring them, they demanded $100,000 and stalked me and my site on the internet for years. I finally got permission to use protions of the disc, but thats all.
Best,
John Bell Young
http://www.johnbellyoung.com
OK then folks, the individual links are gone! But you can still listen to the music of Friedrich Nietzche from John Bell Young’s site!
Thank you, Professor Zero. I am grateful to you that you gave this music, and my recordings of them the attention you did. It is a damn shame that the big recording companies are so possessive, but that’s the way it is. But trying to fight a megacorporation like Sony, unless one is oneself a megacorporation, just isn’t worth it.Remember Audiogalaxy.com? They put THAT out of business singlehandedly for having uploaded its copyrighted materials. If it were up to me, and I owned the recordings, you would be welcome to them. By the way, you’re a marelous writer, and what I’ve read of your work so far evokes me a combination of Julio Cortazar and Derrida. Best wishes to you, JBY
I love the music – and it’s such a great find!
Cortazar and Derrida, now that is interesting – it appears that graduate school (where I actually went to lectures by those two!) did my writing some good. I’m flattered.