There is also a Nietzschean element to this, originally explicit as in Zarathustra but later removed. A working title for the symphony was Der Antichrist, after Nietzsche's book, and was to be not only a musical depiction of nature but a praising of the power of nature and the material over mythical metaphysics. The more antagonistic part of this program was buried, and the part revealed to the public was just the nature painting in tone, wonderful as that is on it's own.
There is also a Nietzschean element to this, originally explicit as in Zarathustra but later removed. A working title for the symphony was Der Antichrist, after Nietzsche's book, and was to be not only a musical depiction of nature but a praising of the power of nature and the material over mythical metaphysics. The more antagonistic part of this program was buried, and the part revealed to the public was just the nature painting in tone, wonderful as that is on it's own.