Nietzsche's Orphans : Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire / Rebecca Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Rebecca, Author.

Series:

Eurasia past and present.

Eurasia Past and Present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Russia--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--Social aspects--Russia.

Ryssland.

Russia.

Local Subjects:

Ryssland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A prevailing belief among Russia's cultural elite in the early twentieth century was that the music of composers such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Aleksandr Scriabin, and Nikolai Medtner could forge a shared identity for the Russian people across social and economic divides. In this illuminating study of competing artistic and ideological visions at the close of Russia's "Silver Age," author Rebecca Mitchell interweaves cultural history, music, and philosophy to explore how "Nietzsche's orphans" strove to find in music a means to overcome the disunity of modern life in the final tumultuous years before World War I and the Communist Revolution.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Note on Transliteration and Usage

Introduction: In Search of Unity

ONE Musical Metaphysics in Late Imperial Russia

TWO Aleksandr Scriabin: Music and Salvation

THREE The Medtner Brothers: Orpheus in an Age of Nationalism

FOUR Sergei Rachmaninoff: The Unwilling Orpheus

FIVE Musical Metaphysics in War and Revolution

Epilogue: Reverberations

Glossary of Names

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 05. Mai 2020)

ISBN:

9780300216493

0300216491

OCLC:

945610080