The Case of Wagner

His music is no longer represented as a possible "philosophical effect," and Wagner is ironically compared to Georges Bizet, a French composer who gained fame during the Romantic Era.

However, Nietzsche presents Wagner as only a particular symptom of a broader "disease" that is affecting Europe: that is, nihilism.

The book shows Nietzsche as a capable music critic and provides the setting for some of his further reflections on the nature of art and its relationship to the future health of humanity.

"[1] One of the last works that Nietzsche wrote returned to the critical theme of The Case of Wagner.

In Nietzsche contra Wagner, Nietzsche pulled together excerpts from his works to show that he consistently had the same thoughts about music, only that he had misapplied them to Wagner in the earliest works.