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Francesca Gaetana Cosima Wagner ( née Liszt; 24 December 1837 – 1 April 1930) was the daughter of the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt and Franco-German romantic author Marie d'Agoult. She became the second wife of the German composer Richard Wagner, and with him founded the Bayreuth Festival as a showcase for his stage works ...
Excerpts re Nietzsche in: Cosima Wagner's Diaries. Vol. 1. 1869-1877. Vol. 2. 1878-1883. Translation by Geoffrey Skelton. NY: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1978.
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. In their outlook on life and music, they were both heavily influenced by Schopenhauer.
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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 ...
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2. An allusion to Madame Cliquot's attempts to ship a secret cargo of her champagne to Russia in 1814, in defiance of the Napoleonic Blockade; Ariadne referring to Cosima Wagner, who left Hans von Bülow for Richard Wagner, with Nietzsche, in his delusional state, seeing himself as next in line for her affections. 3.
* Cosima Wagner destroyed all of her correspondence with Nietzsche—and who knows how much between Richard Wagner and Nietzsche. Nietzsche and Wagner first met in November 1868. See his entry in Deutsche Biographie. Paul Heinrich Widemann (1851-1928). 9 letters 1876-1886. Nietzsche's former student, composer, author, and friend of Heinrich ...
