NIETZSCHE: A CHRONOLOGICAL EXEGESIS OF HIS PUBLISHED WORKS - PART ONE OF A TWO-PART DIGRESSION ON WAGNER'S 'MEISTERSINGER'

The present audio recording is the first part of what looks to be a two-part exposition prompted by Nietzsche’s prima facie somewhat anomalous inclusion of a quotation from ‘Die Meistersinger’ in the description of the Apollonian artist in the first chapter of ‘The Birth of Tragedy’.

The ‘Guidance Notes’ that I am publishing simultaneously with it take the argument well beyond the point to which it is orally expounded here right up until the end of the opera and the Third Act which is the part from which Nietzsche actually quotes.