NIETZSCHE-WAGNER CORRESP PA - Softcover

Richard Strauss once said, so I am told, that he considered the years in which the friendship between Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche was at its zenith, one of the most impressive and significant cultural moments of the nineteenth century. Many others must have thought the same, as I have frequently been asked to assemble all the available documents bearing upon this relationship, and thus present more clearly the ties uniting my brother to Richard Wagner, and all the nuances of this friendship that was impossible in my hitherto published accounts of my brothers life, in which emphasis was laid upon other important matters. A few weeks prior to his mental collapse in 1888, my brother himself wrote: Here where I am speaking of the vivifying influences of my life, a word is necessary to express my gratitude for that which above all other things, refreshed me most profoundly and most genuinely. This was, unquestionably my intercourse with Richard Wagner. All the rest of my human relationships I treat quite lightly, but at no price would I be willing to blot from my life the Tribschen days those days of mutual confidence, of cheerfulness, of sublime flashes the deep moments. ..
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