Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement, Second Edition (eBook)

Simon Morrison (Autor)

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2019 | 2. Auflage
328 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520421080 (ISBN)

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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 composersPyotr Tchaikovsky, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Scriabin, and Sergey Prokofievand 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.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration and Dates

Introduction
1 • Decadence: Tchaikovsky at the Edge
Interlude • Symbolism’s Nutcracker

2 • Syncretism: Rimsky-Korsakov and Belsky
Interlude • Klara Milich

3 • Theurgy: Scriabin and the Impossible
Interlude • Another Church Musician Writes an Opera

4 • Mimesis: Prokofiev’s Demons
Conclusion

Notes
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.9.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Classic • decadence to pantheism • exploration of russian symbolist movement • facilitating communion with nature • imagine art uniting people • influence of wagner • influential • musical devilry • music and the occult • musicology • narcotic infused evocations of heaven • operatic studies • Revised Edition • significance of contemporaneous russian literature • study of russian silver age • transcending reality
• ISBN-13: 9780520421080 / 9780520421080