Robert Peters wrote:

>There is this famous Nietzsche quotation: "Without music life would be
>a mistake / misunderstanding." (Ohne Musik ware das Leben ein Irrtum.)
>Does anyone know when and where he said this and what the context is?

It is from "The Twilight of the Idols (1888)," in the chapter entitled
"Maxims and Missiles," diatribes against Christianity and middie class
morality.  But might Nietzsche be referring to all music? In his "Ecce
Homo" the same year, he writes that he believes only in French culture,
regarding everything else in Europe that calls itself "culture" to be
in error; dismissing the "German kind" as beneath even consideration.

Just the right companion for a night out in Bayreuth.

John Dalmas
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