Watch Them Die - Fall From Grace

Now Wagner had everything he dreamed about: a comfortable house, family, a quiet environment for creativity, friends, among whom he especially singled out Friedrich Nietzsche. Rather, there was almost everything: the house did not belong to Wagner, Cosima still was not his lawful wife, creative inspiration was increasingly violated by external interference, primarily in the person of King Ludwig. Even Nietzsche did not always live up to Wagner’s expectations, although so far the composer had no doubt about his devotion and almost “deification of the Wagnerian genius”. All of these problems will be resolved over time. In the meantime, we dwell only on the last - the ups and downs of Wagner’s friendship with Nietzsche. Just as in the cases of Liszt and Ludwig II, looking ahead, we briefly review the entire history of the relationship of these two extraordinary people, so that many of their actions described in the book,become more understandable. In our book we will not be able to pay attention to the philosophy of Nietzsche; But for the philosopher, it’s not so much the action that matters, as the ideas that generate them ...