Written in 1990 / Recorded in 1990 and 1994
A Tragedy
was an instrumental composition I wrote during the summer of 1990. In those
days, I was working hard for writing an essay about a German philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche, as a course work, and was obsessed with ideas and facts I
was absorbing from various books I referred for my essay writing. Along with
his philosophical thoughts, I was also interested in Nietzsche’s private life
and his relationship with relatively modest number of women including, most
famously, Lou Andreas-Salome.
Part III of the
composition is assigned to focus on the philosopher’s love towards a younger
girl of nearly a half of his age, being provided with quotes from his own words
and an account made from objective view point by a researcher.
The tune was
written before the idea of conceptual work emerged, and was played live on
stage as a solo piano thing by myself. Even at that point, I called this tune
as simply Love Theme, because there was a source of inspiration – a muse
like beautiful girl – back then. The original demo recording followed shortly
after that but it was not a satisfactory one. Four years later, I made another
demo recording of this tune with a new arrangement featuring re-arranged string
section and lead guitar. For making the audio track of this video, I tried to use
the best bits from these three different versions to be patched together in
this way.
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