Vinteuil

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani refers to Vinteuil as the imaginary musician invented by Proust. He is the composer of the sonata whose "little phrase" becomes the anthem of Swann and Odette's love1. In a programme on Schubert, whose title borrows Proust's expression "divine captives", he calls this phrase the "national anthem" of their love and recalls that Vinteuil is, within the novel, the composer of the sonata2. In a Musicosophie session devoted to romantic irony, he describes him as an ideal type made up of several composers3. He also points to the moment when Swann thinks of this "unknown and sublime brother" who must have suffered so much4. Vinteuil comes up in varied contexts: a session on the benefits and harms of amnesia, another on the passage from Kafka to Proust around the intermezzo, and the programme on Schubert. The passages remain brief and do not develop an analysis of the sonata itself.

1. 1#1 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...8 Oct 2020 · 1:20:03
2. 2SCHUBERT - LES CAPTIVES DIVINES • Pagani Parle Musique3 Aug 2022 · 7:14
3. 3Musicosophie 9. Ironie romantique et sonate de Vinteuil15 Jan 2021 · 1:04:49
4. 4Musicosophie 9. Ironie romantique et sonate de Vinteuil15 Jan 2021 · 1:19:28

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