Gustav Krug (1844–1902). Nietzsches Jugendfreund und musikalischer Weggefährte

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.