Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement, Second Edition
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decadence to pantheism
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exploration of russian symbolist movement
facilitating communion with nature
imagine art uniting people
influence of wagner
influential
music and the occult
musical devilry
musicology
narcotic infused evocations of heaven
operatic studies
revised edition
significance of contemporaneous russian literature
study of russian silver age
transcending reality
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- ISBN 9780520305465
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Sep 2019
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Simon Morrison is Professor of Music and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. He is the author of Bolshoi Confidential, The People's Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years, and Lina and Serge: The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev.
