r, seems to have been so great that perhaps their particular exchanges were in fact no accident of time and location. To consider this for a moment, one might take note of the fact that in 1844, the year of FN's birth, RW was known to have seriously began his musical and spiritual journey with the release of The Flying Dutchman; this could be interpreted as kind of artistic birth, perhaps the passing from Zarathustra's metaphorical camel to his lion, from scholarship to creative endeavor. When Nietzsche is four, his father dies of a brain affliction, and six months later, his younger brother Joseph of age 2 dies. From the age of 14 to 19, Friedrich attended the prestigious Schulptforta boarding school at Naumburg, where he led a music and literature club called, "Germania," and the club's subscription to the Zeitschrift fur Musik is how Nietzsche first discovered Wagner. In 1864, Nietzsche studied at the University of Berlin. Inspired by a classics teacher, Ritschl, Nietzsche followed him to the University of Leipzig in 1865. He happens upon Schopenhauer's, The World as the Will and Representation(1818) in a local bookstore. Schopenhauer's transcendental philosophies of art, creation, and turbulent emotion was called the "cadaverous perfume" that led Nietzsche into full appreciation of the aesthetics..in 1849, RW releases his first publication of ideas, The Art Work of the Future, which called for an evolution in art. Succeeding this work was Art and Revolution, and Opera and Drama. He is greatly influenced and inspired by writer Schopenhauer, who begins the idea of a Godless world, which gives great beauty to the intense feeling of deep suffering and quiet sorrow. In 1866, Nietzsche reads F.A. Lange's History of Materialism and Critique of its Present Significance, a new-work that criticized materialist metaphysical theories from the standpoint of Kant's critique of metaphysics in general. Nietzsche was greatly inspired by the more cyn...
