The Case of Wagner
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The Case of Wagner is a critical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche in which he vehemently attacks Richard Wagner’s music and cultural influence as symptomatic of modern decadence.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Case of Wagner canonical | 4 |
| Götzen-Dämmerung | 1 |
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Case of Wagner Context triple: [Twilight of the Idols, follows, The Case of Wagner]
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A.
Gurre-Lieder
Gurre-Lieder is a massive late-Romantic cantata by Arnold Schoenberg for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, based on poems by Jens Peter Jacobsen and renowned for its lush orchestration and dramatic scale.
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B.
Verklärte Nacht
Verklärte Nacht is a late-Romantic string sextet (often performed in string orchestra version) by Arnold Schoenberg, renowned for its rich chromaticism and programmatic inspiration from Richard Dehmel’s poem of the same name.
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C.
Das Rheingold
Das Rheingold is the first of Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, a mythic music drama that sets the stage for the epic saga of gods, heroes, and the cursed Rhine gold.
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D.
Parsifal
Parsifal is Richard Wagner’s final opera, a music drama that blends Arthurian legend and Christian mysticism in a meditative exploration of redemption and compassion.
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E.
Der fliegende Holländer
Der fliegende Holländer is a German Romantic opera by Richard Wagner that tells the legend of a cursed ghost ship and its doomed captain, seeking redemption through true love.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Case of Wagner Target entity description: The Case of Wagner is a critical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche in which he vehemently attacks Richard Wagner’s music and cultural influence as symptomatic of modern decadence.
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A.
Gurre-Lieder
Gurre-Lieder is a massive late-Romantic cantata by Arnold Schoenberg for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, based on poems by Jens Peter Jacobsen and renowned for its lush orchestration and dramatic scale.
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B.
Verklärte Nacht
Verklärte Nacht is a late-Romantic string sextet (often performed in string orchestra version) by Arnold Schoenberg, renowned for its rich chromaticism and programmatic inspiration from Richard Dehmel’s poem of the same name.
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C.
Das Rheingold
Das Rheingold is the first of Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, a mythic music drama that sets the stage for the epic saga of gods, heroes, and the cursed Rhine gold.
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D.
Parsifal
Parsifal is Richard Wagner’s final opera, a music drama that blends Arthurian legend and Christian mysticism in a meditative exploration of redemption and compassion.
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E.
Der fliegende Holländer
Der fliegende Holländer is a German Romantic opera by Richard Wagner that tells the legend of a cursed ghost ship and its doomed captain, seeking redemption through true love.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essay
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literary work ⓘ philosophical work ⓘ |
| author | Friedrich Nietzsche ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| criticizes |
Richard Wagner
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Wagnerian music ⓘ Wagner’s appeal to mass audiences ⓘ Wagner’s cultural influence ⓘ Wagner’s dramaturgy ⓘ Wagner’s use of leitmotifs ⓘ modern decadence ⓘ |
| followedBy | Nietzsche contra Wagner ⓘ |
| form | prose ⓘ |
| genre |
music criticism
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philosophical criticism ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTranslation | The Case of Wagner self-link ⓘ |
| hasInterpretation |
analysis of cultural decadence
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critique of romanticism ⓘ reassessment of Nietzsche’s break with Wagner ⓘ |
| hasPart |
aphoristic sections
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preface ⓘ |
| influenced |
20th-century music criticism
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modernist literary criticism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Arthur Schopenhauer
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European fin-de-siècle culture ⓘ Richard Wagner ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Richard Wagner ⓘ |
| movement | 19th-century philosophy ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Der Fall Wagner ⓘ |
| partOf | Friedrich Nietzsche bibliography ⓘ |
| philosophicalConcept |
aesthetic judgment
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decadence ⓘ health versus sickness in culture ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | Nietzschean philosophy ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | Leipzig ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1888 ⓘ |
| publisher | C. G. Naumann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | scholarly commentary on Nietzsche and Wagner ⓘ |
| theme |
aesthetics
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culture criticism ⓘ decadence ⓘ modernity ⓘ psychology of the artist ⓘ |
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Referenced by (5)
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Götzen-Dämmerung