Friedrich Nietzsche - Manfred-Meditation (1872)

Support the project: https://paypal.me/ceogustav ---------- Piano: Piano Duo "Tena Manrique". Background image: Madox Brown, 1842 (Manfred on the Jungfrau). (Still 27 years sold) Manfred-Meditation, for piano duet. Dated and signed by Nietzsche April 15, 1872. This is a tone-poem responding to the spirit of Byron’s Manfred. With this composition, Nietzsche wanted to show that he had, as a composer, reached a certain maturity. He sent a copy of the score first to his friend Gustav Krug, who praised it, and then to Hans von Bülow, who replied with a devastating critique. At first Nietzsche accepted the spirit of this negative judgement as a sign of honesty, but gradually he recovered his confidence in the artistic value of his composition, helped by a positive comment of Franz Liszt. Von Bülow’s completely negative response to Nietzsche’s efforts as a composer has been accepted widely as the judgement of an expert. The performance on this recording should give an opportunity to form, one and a half centuries later, a more balanced opinion of the artistic merit of this work.