Grieg

Summary

Dominique Pagani mentions Edvard Grieg briefly but regularly between 2020 and 2022, almost always as an example of a national school. He cites him for the Norwegian school in his "Musicosophie" sessions12 and comes back to him in his answers to questions on Nietzsche3. He links Grieg's Norwegian melodies to the awakening of nationalities, in a session devoted to Nietzsche against Wagner4. In his talk on Bartók, he presents Grieg as the composer with whom Norwegian music appears5. His only judgement on a specific work concerns Peer Gynt: in a discussion of what is called modern music, he finds it pleasant but generic, to the point of having become a jingle6. Grieg therefore serves mainly as a landmark in a map of national schools, and Dominique Pagani does not read his works closely.

1. 1#5 Happiness versus the death drive in music11 Dec 2020 · 28:44
2. 2#10 The two Klemperers and Bruno Walter in Wagner18 Jan 2021 · 24:17
3. 3#15 Nietzsche: philosophical or musical relevance? Answers to questions23 Jun 2022 · 1:33:21
4. 4#12 Nietzsche (right up) against Wagner28 Jan 2021 · 4:35
5. 5Bartók: the unheard-of sound13 Jul 2022 · 6:58
6. 6#3 What is called modern music?3 Dec 2020 · 1:29:31

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.