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Nietzsche's orphans : music, metaphysics, and the twilight of the Russian Empire /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mitchell, Rebecca, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Series:Eurasia past and present.
Subjects:
Music > Russia > 20th century > History and criticism.
Music > Social aspects > Russia.
1900 - 1999
Music.
Music > Social aspects.
Russia.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : in search of unity
  • Musical metaphysics in late imperial Russia
  • Aleksandr Scriabin : music and salvation
  • The Medtner brothers : Orpheus in an age of nationalism
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff : the unwilling Orpheus
  • Musical metaphysics in war and revolution
  • Epilogue : reverberations.