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,
Marlow Town Regatta and Festival social calendars. The Saturday Regatta is a ticket event run on a not for profit basis by a volunteer organising committee. The Sunday of the weekend hosts a family festival named the Marlow Festival which is free entry and also hosts the Marlow Dragon Boat festival during the day. Marlow Town Regatta and Festival Marlow Town Regatta and Festival (MTRF) is a rowing regatta and festival held in Marlow on the River Thames in southern England. Marlow's annual rowing regatta was founded in 1855. The first MTRF in its current form was held on 16 June 2001 and was opened