In an 1849 essay, this thinker claimed that Aeschylus wrote the greatest dramas because they embodied the "Apollonian" spirit, a comment that was taken up later by Nietzsche.
One of this thinker's essays begins "As Man stands to Nature, so stands Art to Man" and was inspired by Feuerbach. Adorno claimed that this thinker's works incorporate formal elements of commodity fetishism, despite this thinker's anticapitalist bent, in a book titled In Search of [this thinker]. This thinker wrote a trilogy of essays inspired by the 1848 Revolutions, including "Art and Revolution" and "The Artwork of the Future." George Bernard Shaw wrote a Marxist interpretation of this man's magnum opus, which was titled for the (*) "Perfect" follower of this thinker. In an 1849 essay, this thinker claimed that Aeschylus wrote the greatest dramas because they embodied the "Apollonian" spirit, a comment that was taken up later by Nietzsche. This author attacked Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer in the rabid Jewishness in Music. For 10 points, name this author, whose Opera and Drama elaborated the ideas of gesamtkunstwerk and leitmotiv that were later used to write his Ring Cycle. 
One of this thinker's essays begins "As Man stands to Nature, so stands Art to Man" and was inspired by Feuerbach.
(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner [accept In Search of Wagner; accept The Perfect Wagnerite] 