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The notebooks of Alexander Skryabin / translated by Simon Nicholls and Michael Pushkin ; annotations and commentary by Simon Nicholls ; foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy

Author
Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich, 1872-1915
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Additional Creators
Nicholls, Simon and Pushkin, Michael, 1944-
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: Cultural Context -- Biographical Elements -- The Writings of Skryabin (Russkic propilei, Moscow, 1919) -- A Note by Boris de Schloezer on the Preliminary Action -- The Notebooks -- I.A Single Sheet, Written At The Age Of About Sixteen -- II.Period Of The First Symphony, Around 1900 -- III.Chorus From Symphony No. 1 -- IV.Libretto For An Opera, Written After Symphony No. 1 But Before 1903 -- V.Notebook, Summer 1904, Switzerland -- VI.Notebook, 1904--5 -- VII.Notebook, 1905--6 -- VIII.The Poem Of Ecstasy -- IX.[The Preliminary Action] -- 1.Initial version, full text -- 2.Final, fair copy of the text, unfinished -- Commentary / Simon Nicholls -- The growth of Skryabin's thought -- A `Philosopher-Musician'? -- The Influence Of Philosophy -- Music and philosophy -- Skryabin's reading -- Ernest Renan -- Greek philosophy -- German idealism -- Russian philosophy and Russian symbolism -- Congress at Geneva -- The influence of theosophy -- Indian culture -- Skryabin's philosophy of music -- Skryabin's `teaching' -- Thought in words, music, colour: Skryabin's developing symbolist practice -- skryabin's poetic language -- The Poem Of Ecstasy: text and music (1905--8) -- Prometheus: music, colour, and the word (1908--10) -- The Preliminary Action -- A Preliminary to What?---`The idea of the Mystery' (Leonid Sabaneyev) -- Performance As Sacrament -- The Music For The Preliminary Action -- People and publications -- Leonid Sabaneyev -- Mikhail Gershenzon And Russkie Propilei -- Supplementary Texts by Alexander Skryabin -- I.Reminiscences Of Youth -- II.Text To An Unfinished Ballade For Piano (1887) -- III.Romance (1891) -- IV.An Early Statement Of Aspiration (1892) -- Letters to Natal'ya Sekerina -- V.[June 1892] -- VI.[July 1892] -- VII.[May/June 1893] -- VIII.[June 1893] -- Letters to Margarita Morozova -- IX.April 1904 -- X.[April/May 1906] -- Letters to Tat'yana Schloezer -- XI.[January 1905] -- XII.[December 1906] -- XIII.Poem To Accompany Sonata No. 4 -- XIV.Open Letter To A. N. Bryanchaninov: art and politics' (1915).
Summary
Skryabin's life spanned the tumultuous political events and artistic developments of the end of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th but was cut short before the end of the First World War. In an era when the Russian musical scene was relatively conservative, he aligned himself with the poets, philosophers, and dramatists of the Silver Age. Possessed by an apocalyptic vision, aspects of which he shared with other Russian thinkers and artists of the period, Skryabin transformed his Romantic musical style into a far-reaching, radical instrument for the expression of his ideas. The core of this text is a full translation of the 1919 Moscow publication of Skryabin's writings with the original introduction by Skryabin's close friend Boris de Schloezer, brother of the composer's life partner, Tat'yana.
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ISBN
9780190863692 (ebook)
Audience Notes
Specialized.
Note
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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