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Friedrich Nietzche's Final Assessment of Wagner
It’s said that you should never meet your heroes, because in the end, they’ll always disappoint. When Friedrich Nietzsche first met Richard Wagner in 1868, he was a 24 year-old doctoral student at the University of Leipzig who’d recently fallen under the spell of the composer’s music. They bonded over their mutual admiration of Schopenhauer and his conc…
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