Chapter 2 Germanizing music and culture: Richard Wagner’s ‘Beethoven’ essay

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Abbreviations and translations vi
3. Contents ix
4. General introduction 3
5. Part I Aestheticization: Germany as saviour of Europe
6. Chapter 1 Was Nietzsche ever a true Wagnerian? 21
7. Chapter 2 Germanizing music and culture: Richard Wagner’s ‘Beethoven’ essay 52
8. Chapter 3 Nietzsche’s reception of Wagner’s ‘Beethoven’ essay in the spirit of Weimar Classicism 95
9. Chapter 4 The Birth of Tragedy out of Nietzsche’s concern for Wagner’s ‘Graecization’ 129
10. Part II Dynamic interculturalism: De-Germanization and the ‘Good European’
11. Chapter 5 Nietzsche’s anti-Wagnerism in the light of his increasing cosmopolitanism 169
12. Chapter 6 ‘La Gaya Scienza’ in music: Nietzsche’s new musical aesthetics 199
13. Chapter 7 Goethe as model of the ‘Good European’ 228
14. Epilogue 258
15. Bibliography 265
16. Index 284