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The Case of Wagner

Name: The Case of Wagner
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Case of Wagner is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1888. Subtitled "A Musician's Problem", it has also been known as The Wagner Case in English.

“Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book The Case of Wagner

Der Fall Wagner (1888)

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