Walter Meyer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>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?
>
>*Goetzendaemmerung*, Sprueche und Pfeile, Paragraph No. 33:

I have though that Nietzsche wrote this very early.  Could anyone provide
a year?

>Wie wenig gehort zum Glucke! Der Ton eines Dudelsacks. - Ohne Musik
>ware das Leben ein Irrthum. Der Deutsche denkt sich selbst Gott
>liedersingend.
>
>(How little is needed for happiness!  The sound of a bagpipe
>[sic].--Without music, life would be a mistake.  The German who sings
>songs considers himself God.)

I would suggest this translation:

"As happiness is a matter of little!  The tune of some bagpipe.  - Without
music, life would be a mistake.  The German thinks of himself as a singing
God"

Mats Norrman
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