Lorelei

Summary

Dominique Pagani refers to the Lorelei as the fairy, or nixie, of the Rhine rock whose irresistible song lures the boatmen and wrecks their boats12. In a session on Nerval's Angélique, he links her to "the eternal myth of the siren," which he calls a myth of the edge3. She comes back in other sessions on Nerval, on the nomad and the sedentary or on Nerval and Baudelaire. There he stresses her ambivalence: she is a woman who is both alluring and dangerous4. He also mentions her in connection with music. In a "Musicosophie" session on Schubert, he cites the Schumann lied in which she bewitches a knight and dooms him to wander5. From 2018 to 2021 his description stays the same: the song, the rock, the wreck of the Rhine's sailors. He uses her as a mythical figure that he connects to the siren, to Nerval's poetry and to the Romantic lied.

1. 1#8 Harnessed to confinitude17 May 2020 · 1:03:22
2. 2#4 Nomad and sedentary: the case of Nerval4 Oct 2021 · 1:34:38
3. 3#4.4 Angélique (by Nerval)15 Jan 2018 · 57:11
4. 4#9.24 “Ruled like music paper!” Nerval, Baudelaire (part 2)30 Jun 2021 · 37:41
5. 5#1 Schubert and the master singers3 Dec 2020 · 22:39

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.