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 [log in to unmask]