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>As we return home through the palace gardens, he says: “It does not say much for Schopenhauer that he did not pay more attention to my Ring des Nibelungen. I know no other work in which the breaking of a will (and what a will, which delighted in the creation of a world!) is shown as being accomplished through the individual strength of a proud nature without the intervention of a higher grace, as it is in Wotan. Almost obliterated by the separation from Brunnhilde, this will rears up once again, bursts into flame in the meeting with Siegfried, flickers in the dispatching of Waltraute, until, we see it entirely extinguished at the end in Valhalla.” At supper he returns to this and says: “I am convinced Sch. would have been annoyed that I discovered this before I knew about his philosophy—I, a political refugee, the indefensibility of whose theories had been proved by his disciple Kossak on the basis of his philosophy, since my music is supposed to have no melody. But it was not very nice. It’s the way Goethe treated Kleist, whom he should have acclaimed, as Schumann acclaimed Brahms—but that only seems to happen among donkeys.”

Why didn't Wagner realise he did the same thing to Nietzsche?

>“Things like this are written only for people who have good powers of endurance (so really for nobody!)”, wrote Wagner about Die Walküre.
>At the end of the first act of Die Walküre where the stage direction says “The curtain falls quickly”, Schopenhauer scribbled in the margin of his copy “And about time too!”

Why did Schopenhauer dislike Wagner?