Nietzsche's Orphans : Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire Hardback
by Rebecca Mitchell
Part of the Eurasia Past and Present series
Hardback
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:336 pages, 24 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:14/01/2016
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- ISBN:9780300208894
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:336 pages, 24 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:14/01/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9780300208894