Richard Wagner in Bayreuth

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“Richard Wagner in Bayreuth” is a book by Friedrich Nietzsche in the “General & Other” category, written in German. It is in the public domain, so you can read it for free from the open source using the buttons above. If you enjoyed it, press Like to help others find it. Similar books are listed below.

About the author

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), the son of a Lutheran pastor, was appointed professor of classical philology at Basel at only twenty-four. His friendship with the composer Richard Wagner shaped his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, and its bitter end shaped much of what followed. Ill health forced him to resign in 1879, and he spent ten restless years in Swiss and Italian lodgings, writing book after book.

In Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil and his later works he questioned morality, religion and truth itself. He collapsed in Turin in 1889 and never recovered; his sister later bent his work toward nationalist causes he had despised. Few philosophers have been so influential, or so often misread.