Gustav Krug (1844–1902). Nietzsches Jugendfreund und musikalischer Weggefährte
Abstract
Abstract Gustav Krug (1844–1902). Nietzsche’s Childhood Friend and Musical Companion. Following Martin Pernet’s genealogical and biographical study, this article focuses on the composer and jurist Gustav Krug as a musical advisor and discussion partner to Nietzsche. Starting out from the function of music in Nietzsche’s philosophical thinking, I examine Nietzsche’s and Krug’s joint music-making and exchanges about their own works as well as questions of compositional aesthetics and technique, before I offer a stylistic analysis of Krug’s surviving compositions. This allows us to round off our picture of Nietzsche’s childhood friend from a new perspective.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Nietzsche
Schopenhauer
and Hegel
Musicology and Musical Analysis
Literature
Musicology
and Cultural Analysis
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Nietzsche Studien
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 242–255
- Publication date
- 27 January 2026
- Language
- EN