Peter Gast

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Peter Gast only as Nietzsche's musical correspondent, and almost always as the recipient of two letters that he quotes. The first concerns Parsifal: in it Nietzsche praises the prelude to Wagner's opera12. Pagani comes back to it from 2016 to 2022, in varied contexts ranging from Hegel to Leibniz and the "Musicosophie" sessions34. The second letter, which Nietzsche writes from Corsica or about Corte, comes up in sessions from 2016 to 202056. Pagani describes Gast as a mediocre composer7. He points out a paradox: this musician of little stature is the one Nietzsche chooses to tell all the bad things he thinks of Wagner8, yet it is also to him that Nietzsche confides his admiration for the prelude to Parsifal9. Pagani thus uses this correspondence to show Nietzsche's ambivalence toward Wagner.

1. 1Leibniz1 Aug 2017 · 1:44:19
2. 2Musicosophie 12. Nietzsche (tout) contre Wagner28 Jan 2021 · 1:53:34
3. 3Hegel Plage 1/51 Feb 2016 · 2:30:10
4. 4Musicosophie 1. Schubert et les maîtres chanteurs3 Dec 2020 · 44:34
5. 5Au bistrot avec Pagani : partie 219 Jun 2016 · 35:32
6. 6L’écologisme est l’opium du people : Préface du livre de Dominique Mazuet "Des Veaux et des choses"4 Oct 2020 · 9:59
7. 7Clouscard : Les métamorphoses de la lutte des classes2 Sept 2024 · 10:15
8. 8Musicosophie 12. Nietzsche (tout) contre Wagner28 Jan 2021 · 1:10:52
9. 9#15 Nietzsche : Pertinence philosophique ou musicale ? Réponses aux questions23 Jun 2022 · 1:17:44

Summary produced automatically from 11 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.