| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - In his early essays, Untimely Meditations (1873???1874), Nietzsche praises Wagner for rejecting all the cheap theatrical tricks employed by composers such as Meyerbeer and instead learning to speak with a ???wholly novel psychical magic.??? In a late work, The Case of Wagner (1888), he derides Wagner for being ???a master of hypnotic tricks??? who strives for nothing but effect.
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