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The presentation of Nietzsche philosophy of music and its connection with Wagner`s music is the subject of the above consideration. The history of art is motivated - according to Nietzsche - by two opposite elements that of Apollo and that of Dionysus. They come from the very nature of the world. The Apollo elements bring beauty and ethics; while Dionysus elements reveal the process of becoming and the double nature of the world connecting in itself good and evil, suffering and bliss. The Dionysus` wisdom manifests itself in mythical thinking and ancient tragedy, the basic of which is choir, that is the art sounds. Music gets to the core of the essence of the world, gives it artistic shape pointing to where there is a genuine significance and a value of art. The symbol of perfect art is the Attic tragedy which expresses the aliance of the Apollo and Dionysian elements. For Nietzsche - art as the expression of creative power - exemplifies the form of affirmation of life.