Nietzsche’s publisher, Ernst Schmeitzner, expressed his frustrations at Wagner and his circle at Bayreuth:
Wagner is not even reading Nietzsche’s book … He said to me that people only read Nietzsche in so far as they cling to him [Wagner] … He got off some really nasty remarks about Nietzsche that I shall never forget … You should have heard in Bayreuth the constant grumbling against the Jews and “Snap up” (Bismarck). Lucky is he who has nothing to do with Wagner!
On Nietzsche:
Quite another sort of man is Nietzsche. … From the outset I was struck by the love and warmth of this man.
Both quotes are from “Friedrich Nietzsche: a biography” by Curtis Cate (2002), p 271.