Poison - Life Loves A Tragedy

Wagner is only somewhat close to Nietzsche’s ideas in his literary works of the late 1840s-1850s, in which he acts as a subverter of authority, including religious ones, as a revolutionary who called for the renunciation of “old” art in the name of the triumph of new and etc. By the time he became acquainted with Nietzsche himself, he had been on his own path for a long time and he could not find anything Nietzschean either in the Ring of the Nibelung, or even less so in Parsifal, the eloquent antipode of Nietzsche’s philosophy. So, for example, a complete misunderstanding of the philosophical intent of the composer is the interpretation of the image of Siegfried as a “superman”; rather, Nietzschean’s “human, too human” can be attributed to him. In addition, the composition "Siegfried" was completed by Wagner back in 1856, not to mentionthat the characteristics of this character have not fundamentally changed since the time of the work on “Young Siegfried” and “Death of Siegfried”, which relates again to the 1850s. Therefore, we repeat, there is no influence of Nietzsche on Wagner’s work.