The aim of this paper is to establish the reasons of music's primacy in Nietzsche's philosophy. By presenting the notion of "absolute music" and it's consequences in modern aedthetics, namely in Schopenhauer's and Wagner's works, we will try to clarify the reasons of Nietzsche's distancing from this very notion and to show how his criticisms of a "metaphysics of music" gives birth to an understanding of the experience of hearing music as an exercise of freedom that promotes philosophical thinking.
music; philosophy; language; freedom; Wagner