Richard Wagner of the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, who thought the work "divinely composed", and that of the French newspaper "Le Figaro", which called the music "the dream of a lunatic". Amongst the disillusioned were Wagner's friend and disciple Friedrich Nietzsche, who, having published his eulogistic essay "Richard Wagner in Bayreuth" before the festival as part of his "Untimely Meditations", was bitterly disappointed by what he saw as Wagner's pandering to increasingly exclusivist German nationalism; his breach with Wagner began at this time. The festival firmly established Wagner as an artist of European, and indeed world, importance: attendees included Kaiser Wilhelm I,
Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival The Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival is a Slovenian film festival specialized in genre movies, with emphasis on Horror and Fantasy. The festival takes place every year in mid-July in the town of Ljutomer, in the winegrowing Prlekija region. The 14th edition took place from the 10th to the 14th of July 2018. Festival was launched in 2005 on the 100th anniversary of Slovenian cinema in Ljutomer, where the first Slovenian motion pictures were made by the hand of Dr. Karol Grossmann. It was initiated by Film Practice Plan 9 and Development Agency