"Without music, life would be a mistake," Friedrich Nietszche would write, famously, in The Twilight of the Idols. Music, indeed, was essential to every aspect of the thinker's work. Born on October 15, 1844, Nietzsche even had aspirations to be a composer, early on, and wrote a number of pieces for piano—a selection of which we will hear in honor of his birthday on Wednesday afternoon's Classical Music With Foley Schuler, along with major works inspired by his writings by Mahler and Strauss.
You can hear Foley Schuler's musical selections—and stories behind the music—every weekday afternoon from 1 until 4 on Blue Lake Public Radio.
