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Often appears with: theatre and performance · ring of the nibelung and bayreuth · political exile · myth and the gods of the nations · fate, destiny, and necessity · die meistersinger
Usually: reflection (1) · exile and homecoming (1) · the fall of the great (1) · detachment (1) · wonder (1)
“Now at last the genius of dithyrambic drama doffs its last disguise. He is isolated; the age seems empty to him; he ceases to hope; and his all-embracing glance descend once more into the deep, and finds the bottom, there he sees suffering in the nature of things.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thoughts out of Season, Part I · vivid
After Wagner becomes a political exile, Nietzsche says his art turns inward and becomes the highest mastery: he stops aiming for public effects, turns to metaphysical music, and creates Tristan and Isolde and later the Ring and Bayreuth.
not. But, in any case, would not complete annihilation be better than the wretched existing state of affairs? Not very long afterwards, he was a political exile in dire distress. And then only, with this terrible change in his environment and in his soul, there begins that period of the great man's life over which as a golden reflection there is stretched the splendour of highest mastery. Now at last the genius of d…