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Schopenhauer

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Wagner, Chopenhauer, Schopenhauer - It's an Expression of the Metaphysical Reality

Wagner read chopenhauer massively, we're told, in the middle of the nineteenth century. He took it into his music and tried to use the philosophy to help him write the music. After t 18, forty eight revolution, which wagner had taken part in, he ran away to switzerland. All his colleagues on the barricades had been put in prison. And he spent a number of years thinking, a rethinking, really, his approach to music and to opera.

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