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However, at the very last moment, the Bayreuth affair was again threatened. The money collected by voluntary patrons was sorely lacking. When Wagner again found himself on the edge of the abyss, Nietzsche felt his need. He wrote “An Appeal to the German People” in support of the construction of the Wagner theater, in support of the Wagner art, but did not find understanding even among the composer's inner circle, who considered the “Appeal” to be “too pompous”, “too serious”, “a kind of monastic sermon”. Nietzsche was truly offended. Even the approval of Wagner himself could not change anything. Returning to Basel, he locked himself in. For the first time, the “Wagnerian affair”, the victory of which he so passionately desired, appeared before him in the “image of the enemy”.