Gast, Peter (1854–1918)

German composer. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and later went to Basel, Switzerland, as a friend and disciple of the philosopher Nietzsche, some of whose compositions he revised. Afterwards he lived in Venice, Italy, and Weimar, Germany.

Works Stage operas Wilbram (1879), Orpheus und Dionysos, König Wenzel, Die heimliche Ehe (based on the libretto of Cimarosa's Il matrimonio segreto and farther back on Colman and Garrick's The Clandestine Marriage, 1891); festival play Walpurgis (1903).

Chorus and orchestra Hosanna.

Orchestral symphonies, symphonic poem Helle Nächte, and other orchestral works.

Chamber string quartet, septet.

Other songs.