In Formel

This title has been lifted from Nietzsche's Case of Wagner. A pithy remark, the phrase encapsulates a mass of aesthetic presuppositions and historical commonplaces that are invoked by the association of and Liszt. This paragraph of Nietzsche's text criticizes Wagner's spectacular side: Nietzsche writes, marches with drums and pipes at the head of all artists of delivery, of presentation, of virtuosity.I makes only a brief appearance in Nietzsche's history of music to personify the musical actor, the spectacular appendage to Wagner. whole phrase reads: The rise of the actor in music: a capital event . . . in the formula: and Liszt. [In Formel: und Liszt]. Nietzsche says nothing more about here; his coupling with serves to hyperbolize, to extend and draw out the theatrical role that Nietzsche attributes primarily to Wagner. formula Wagner und Liszt is in fact a modifying predicate of Wagner. It has become commonplace to link to in this way, to imply that is a mere continuation of what began, a side show to Wagner's center, a cultural trill, a mere result of what was done by Wagner, consistently considered to be the significant artistic genius. Liszt's contributions to musical production and publication to its distribution or dissemination beyond the sphere of his own

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