In his book The Birth of Tragedy in 1868, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche described the musician Richard Wagner as the hope, savior, and future of music. And in 1888, that is, twenty years after his first book, and from his close friendship with Wagner as well; Nietzsche inaugurated the end of his friendship with Wagner, an end no less epic than their friendship, when he singled out an entire book to criticize Wagner's music, and called it "The Wagner Affair", describing his old friend as a living embodiment of disease, absorbing all aspects of life from German music, and diligently carrying the flag towards Cultural decadence, which Nietzsche saw as rampant in contemporary society
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