Nietzsche and Strauss' Radetsky March

I selected this piece because I feel it demonstrates the qualities that Nietzsche saw in Bizet. Radetsky March's liveliness coupled with toe-tapping melody is similar to the Bizet's Carmen, particularly in its overture. Radetsky March is not decadent, as Wagner's Tristan and Ilsode tends to be.  There is nothing morbid in the tune of Radetsky March- all tunes are light-hearted. The sense of doom and sorrow is no where present, unlike the heavy melody of Tristan and Ilsode.