Cosima Wagner

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly discusses Cosima Wagner in the triangle she forms with Wagner and Nietzsche. He often points out that she is Liszt's daughter, taken from Hans von Bülow by Wagner, which causes a scandal in Europe1. In 2024, he adds that with her Wagner finds his balance2. On Nietzsche's side, he counts her among the two women who deeply shook him3. He cites several of her gestures: she gives Nietzsche Montaigne's Essays, and Wagner dictates My Life to her in Nietzsche's presence. He returns several times to the letters from Nietzsche's madness, signed Dionysus, in which Nietzsche declares his love to her under the name of Ariadne4. He also mentions an 1872 letter in which Nietzsche writes to her blaming the Jewish press, and the nickname "the Russian woman" that she gives Lou Salomé. On the musical side, he notes that Wagner gives her the Siegfried Idyll and that her diary records his last words in Venice5. Finally, he points out that she translated the Parsifal poem into French.

1. 1NIETZSCHE - PAS DE PITIÉ POUR WAGNER • Pagani Parle Musique27 Jul 2022 · 9:30
2. 2Sauver le sauveur ? La rédemption - fin du cycle ou son recommencement ?21 Apr 2024 · 54:03
3. 3#4 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude11 Apr 2020 · 1:12:45
4. 4#3.3 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 1:36:28
5. 59 #15 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?18 Feb 2021 · 29:05

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