Christian Death - Act III - Philtre Of Death: Pillars Of Osiris

Nietzsche himself, who learned about the composer's death, described the best reasons for the breakup with Wagner in a letter to their mutual friend, writer Amalia Malvide von Meysenburg on February 21, 1883: “Wagner’s death has deeply affected me ... and I still haven’t recovered yet from the news received. Nevertheless, I think that this event will be a relief to me. For six years it has been difficult, very difficult, to be an adversary to someone whom I have loved and revered as I loved Wagner, and, moreover, as an adversary, to condemn myself to silence - out of respect that this person deserves as a whole. Wagner - I tell you bluntly - inflicted a mortal resentment on me; I took his slow departure and the rollback to Christianity and the church as a personal insult to me; and since before I bowed to those who were capable of such a step,all my youth and its ideals seemed tainted. ”