Nietzsche Played the Piano

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The Athens Conservatoire Piano School presents a concert featuring pieces for solo piano and piano for four hands, all composed by the great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. This will be the first time these pieces will be performed in Greece. The concert titled Nietzsche Played the Piano and curated by Philippos Tsalachouris, the Head of Music Studies at the Athens Conservatoire, will be held at the Greek National Opera Alternative Stage in the SNFCC on Saturday 22 June 2024, at 20.00. Admission will be free for the public.

Only a few people know that Nietzsche, in addition to being a philosopher, poet, and philologist, was also a skilled pianist and created many pieces for different ensembles. Doing justice to the term “Alternative” for the stage that will host this so interesting yet completely unknown music, the programme will also include unfinished works and themes for counterpoint exercises composed by this great thinker.

The students of the Athens Conservatoire Piano School will pit themselves against the legendary philosopher, bringing out his more sensitive side as a musician who struggled to express himself through playing and composing, battling against silence, contemplation, and the passage of time.

Anthony Hatzimoysis, professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Athens, will open the concert with an introductory address.