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Acclaimed for treading new ground in operatic studies of the period, Simon Morrison’s influential and now-classic text explores music and the occult during the Russian Symbolist movement. Including previously unavailable archival materials about Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky, this wholly revised edition is both up to date and revelatory. Topics range from decadence to pantheism, musical devilry to narcotic-infused evocations of heaven, the influence of Wagner, and the significance of contemporaneous Russian literature. Symbolism tested boundaries and reached for extremes so as to imagine art uniting people, facilitating communion with nature, and ultimately transcending reality. Within this framework, Morrison examines four lesser-known works by canonical composers—Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Scriabin, and Sergey Prokofiev—and in this new edition also considers Alexandre Gretchaninoff’s __Sister Beatrice__ and Alexander Kastalsky’s __Klara Milich__, while also making the case for reviving Vladimir Rebikov’s __The Christmas Tree.__

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Author

Simon Alexander Morrison

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520305465

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Music, History, Literary Criticism