11/2/2011

It seems as though Nietzche feels the music and Performance of Brahms is, in a sense, fake, or decieving (as Nietzche describes it in The Second Postscript). There is unnecessary liveliness, or claims of sadness and longing without having a pain to base an emotional claim off of. Nietzche says "If one is not rich, one should have pride enough for poverty." To me it sounds like he is stating that one must be able to feel and understand and relate to a feeling or emotion in music in order to accurately portray it.