I could not discover in it the least trace of Apollonian elements, and, as for the Dionysian, to tell you frankly, it made me think of the morning after a bacchanalian orgy rather than of an orgy itself.... Once again — don't take this too badly — you yourself say your music is "detestable" — it is, actually, more detestable than you believe, not in a way detrimental to the common interest, but worse than that: detrimental to you, who cannot more hideously waste your excess of leisure than in this kind of rape of Euterpe.
— Hans von Bülow on Nietzsche's Manfred-Meditation
I quote from Georges Liébert's book Nietzsche and Music. Cosima Wagner wrote in her diary of Dec. 4, 1872: "Letter from Prof. Nietzsche, who tells me about a very curious letter to him from Hans, regarding a musical composition of his which our friend sent to Hans (rather to our amazement)."
