cally proclaimed pinnacle achievement of FN's work - the concept of his "overman" led me to a much greater understanding of the artistic similarities between the two men's lives. Moreover, once FN makes clear his perception of RW in Nietzsche Contra Wagner the reasons supporting FN's contempt for his former friend and inspiration became increasingly clearer; I realized that what repulsed FN was not that RW's music was badbut dangerous. Initially, FN recognizes RW as a certifiable champion of a higher state of being, the overman, a creative genius like himself. It seems that RW's death-bed union with Christianity, however, was in FN's opinion, a shortcut into a false feeling of transcendence. For the overman, this is a poor decision to make; FN's feeling was that the idea of morality in any conventional sense could only serve to suffocate and limit the creative instincts that define the artistic genius and allow him eternal happiness. If they are replaced with ethical decisions of a weaker group of beings, the overman is doomed to suffer his own un-fulfillment. Please refer to the first attached biography of Richard Wagner (Bio 1) and to the second biography of Friedrich Nietzsche (Bio 2). Wilhelm Richard Wagner was born on May 22, 1813 in Leipzig, the son to Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner(b. , who died later that year, as a result of the Battle of Nations fought just outside of Leipzig. . In 1944, he releases his opera, The Flying Dutchman, which is the work that is said to have put Wagner on the map.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche is born on October 15, 1844 in Rocken, just southwest of Leipzig, as the son of Karl Ludwig Nietzsche(b. 1813-1849). Nietzsche's father died of a brain ailment when Friedrich was only 4. As we already know, the two men's involvement led to much creative influence, this being easily demonstrated in the fact that Wagner is repeatedly the subject of Nietzche's writing. The impact they had on each other, howeve...
