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Post Subject: MisunderstandingsPosted by Ronnie on: 3/7/2006
Haha. Replace every "Tchaikovsky" with "Nietzsche", and it's pretty much my view.
Well. Pain is pain, and anger is anger. It's boring to me when artists and philosophers are judged as creating out of misery, rather than pointing to something great and non-pedestrian.
The words of the poor, maybe repressed homosexual with a stomach ache, nihilist, Nietzsche have many times filled me with great joy and a sense of courage, and I find the same extreme non-sentimentality and glee in Tchaikovskys 5th.
I haven't felt a sense of "Tchaikovskys looked at the end parade that juts walked along the street and discovered that he is not among the parading people", but rather "Tchaikovsky is happilly parading to his own tune". Perhaps it is possible to hear both, and that he also felt a bit of both.
N seemed (to me) to unfortunately conclude at times, that his dislike for compassion (as in sharing-of-suffering) must imply that he liked war and ruthlessness. Maybe it shifted and maybe I misunderstood him completely.
Perhaps I hear the same glorification of war in some bombastic russian music, and maybe it was there for some composers, maybe it shifted, and maybe it is a total misunderstanding. Maybe Tchaikovsky meant for me only to hear the praise of the spirit.
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