hoven, it was a loss of hearing that affected his work. He could no longer conduct his own works, and he had no real way of knowing how the music really sounded, except to himself-- a beautiful idea buried in his own mind. But works such as the ninth symphony prove that he wasn't done yet. The transcendental quality of the piece was RW's greatest influence in music. It was through much suffering that the task was achieved. For FN, it was a marked increase in rhetoric ability. He began work on his most renowned work, "Also Sprach Zarathustra", in 1883, immediately after his depression. And he continued to write constantly for the next five years of his life until his untimely mental breakdown in Dec. 1888, Jan. 1889. So what about RW? RW abandoned his goal. Upon prospect of financial troubles, RW's last projects in life (Bayreuth, Parsifal) were a submission to conventional practice and belief to ease life's burden. Unfortunately for RW, he was either one of two things: an overman who didn't follow his task, and therefore could not survive, or a human who tried to take on the task but failed. Neitzsche concludes that the true overman has not the capacity for such an abandonment. He let vanity, or materialism stand in the way of his art. Haydn, through jealousy and other vain motives, clearly desired that LvB acknowledge him as superior and mentor. (Soloman 97). Again, I must point out that RW's father was born on the same year as Beethoven, and that RW was born just as LvB was commencing his final stage. FN's father was born the same year as RW, and FN was born the same year that RW would be starting his lion phase. Since we are not even certain of the identity of Beethoven's father, it would be hard to speculate as to who his 'mentor' was - it would be convenient to my point if it were Haydn. But another strange coincidence has made itself apparent to me. Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889, the last year of FN's child-phase before hi...
