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In the course of her long stewardship Cosima overcame the misgivings of the hardline Wagnerites patrons who believed, like Nietzsche in his early years, that Wagner's works should not be entrusted to a non-German.
Nietzsche and Wagner became close after Nietzsche began visiting Wagner, his wife Cosima, and their children at Tribschen, a beautiful house beside Lake Lucerne, about a two-hour train ride from Basle where Nietzsche was a professor of classical philology.
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Excerpts from Cosima Wagner's Diaries re Nietzsche in English.
Oct 7, 2019 · These views made Wagner wince, as the diaries of Cosima Wagner, his wife, attest. In an earlier essay entitled “The Greek State,” Nietzsche had declared that “slavery belongs to the essence ...
Nietzsche at times lived with Wagner and Wagner’s future wife Cosima, Nietzsche’s first book was in part developed out of long conversations with them both, while at the same time, under the same roof, Wagner was beginning to compose and develop the story of what would eventually become Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Nietzsche, who was fast ...
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Hans Driessen, Cosima Wagner
- 1889
Concert pianist, conductor and critic who studied under Franz Liszt and later married Liszt's daughter Cosima —who left him for Wagner. Von Bülow's harsh criticism of the "Manfred Meditation" devastated Nietzsche. An excerpt from his July 24, 1872 letter:
Nietzsche. Dionysus. Turin, ca. January 1, 1889: Dedication of Dionysus-Dithyrambs to Catulle Mendès. Inasmuch as I want to do mankind a boundless favor, I give them my dithyrambs. I place them in the hands of the poet of Isoline, the first and greatest satyr alive today — and not only today ... Dionysus.
