BWV 1083 Stabat Mater 3

BWV 1083 Stabat Mater 3 transcription for guitar duo.
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Featuring philosopher and composer Friedrich Nietzsche.
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: “There is too much primitive Christianity in Bach, primitive Germany, primitive scholasticism. On the threshold of modern European music, he always looks back on the Middle Ages.”
Nietzsche composed in 1860 music to the same text as Bach used for his arrangement of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater: Psalm 51. The text had special meaning for him. When his father was buried and Friedrich was still a small boy, this psalm was probably played. A year later he dreamed about that music, on the eve of his brother's death. He took music very seriously and said: “Without music, life would be a mistake”.
The quote about Bach contains sharp criticism, you can say something about that. I will do that.
Primitivism has taken on a whole range of positive connotations, not least because of Picasso.
Nietzsche composed his 1860 Miserere for an art organization called Germania. It is set in the antico style of Palestrina. He described modern music as unhealthy, superfluous and dangerous.
His music has fatal flaws: he understood nothing of the classical sonata form and had great difficulty composing a long-term piece of music.
Unlike Bach, who trained his sons to be progressive composers. Bach composed several magnificent pieces that fully conform to the classic sonata form. The Stabat Mater is largely composed in the modern Empfindsamkeit style and Bach fully embraced it.
The scholastic method approaches texts with the utmost respect. The strength of the method lies in seeking out objections and entering into confrontation. Together, this creates fruitful paradoxes in art that captures life.
It is not correct to say that Bach, who composed twelve-tone music, always looks back.
Nietzsche says he speaks about Bach, but talks about himself.
If you take in art free and unknowingly, you run a great risk of just looking in the mirror. It takes effort to listen to Bach, you have to step through the mirror and enter his world. You don't have to embrace everything you experience, after all, you also take yourself with you.
Pergolesi's Latin text was provided with a German one by Bach's lyricist. The Latin Mater (mother) was replaced by the German Vater (father). The manuscripts of Pergolesi and Bach where this can be seen are briefly shown.