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The Musician as Outsider
Author(s): Colin Wilson (Author)
- Publisher: Paupers' Press
- Publication Date: January 18, 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 38 pages
- ISBN-10: B006ZOP1YA
Book Description
In a wide-ranging essay, Wilson extends his examination of the dilemma that destroyed so many of the great Romantic ‘Outsider’ artists to composers from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, turning the spotlight in particular on Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven whom he describes as:
“…one of the first of the great Outsider-Artists—perhaps the greatest of them all.”
Calling upon Nietzsche and his own philosophy of optimism, Wilson suggests a way out of the Romantic cul-de-sac of pessimism and self-pity, anticipating a time when:
“…the ‘age of Outsiders’ will draw to a close, and the human race will embark on a new phase of its history.”
“…one of the first of the great Outsider-Artists—perhaps the greatest of them all.”
Calling upon Nietzsche and his own philosophy of optimism, Wilson suggests a way out of the Romantic cul-de-sac of pessimism and self-pity, anticipating a time when:
“…the ‘age of Outsiders’ will draw to a close, and the human race will embark on a new phase of its history.”
