Nietzsche contra Wagner

Wagner as Danger

1. The concept of Wagner’s “unending melody” is used to designate what Nietzsche regards as the chaotic degeneration of rhythmic feeling. This tendency results in a dangerous use of music to merely produce a dramatic effect.
2. Wagner’s music tries to produce a physically jarring effect on the Biedermeier audience. Mozart’s opera ‘’Don Giovanni’’, in contrast, had a serious music that was cheerful and tender.

Friedrich Nietzsche Independent philosopher (1879–88)

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Apollonian and Dionysian German philosophy

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Friedrich Nietzsche and free will About organized religion

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Will to power Individual psychology

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Will to power Early Influences

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