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Nietzsche and Wagner

age of 24. The two men were very interested always in music and literature, never exclusively one or the other, and they both dabbled in each other's fields. The coincidental dates could be subject for its own manuscript, but I will leave it up to the reader to observe any more detail recurrences.In terms of literature, they both display a profound. interest in Greek prose, as it reflects an entirely different society in which man thrived in the arts and culture. The attraction of each man to the love for life is apparent. There is a remarkable reoccurrence of rejecting those who detested life. We know that LvB preferred Goethe and Schiller to Klopstock, specifically because Klopstock did not love life as the other two did. Said by Beethoven, "He(Goethe) has killed Klopstock for meBut he is great and uplifts the soul nevertheless.If only he did not always want to die!..But Goethe-he is alive, and he wants us to live with him. That is why he can be set to music."(Schwaegermann 4/25/01). This is one of the main reasons that FN rejects Schopenhauer and RW, for their philosophies ended with death as the only solution. Neitzsche said, "..they negate life, they slander it, hence they are my antipodes."(Nietzsche contra Wagner, Kaufman p. 670) Let it here be noted that this parallel is not between philosophies (for as we know, FN did not believe that a Christian could ever achieve full artistic potential), but rather between specific attitudes towards a specific subject.Assuming once again that the reader of this paper is somewhat familiar with FN's three stages of the overman (Thus Spoke Zarathustra), we can easily see the similar paths in each man's life. I must point out that FN would not have considered Beethoven as a realized overman, for he remains Christian throughout his life, but the stages of Nietzsche's development towards said-goal are a vantage point from which to see the comparison of life events. LvB meets with Haydn, in 1792 to...

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