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The Aesthetic Life of Cyril Scott (Hardcover, New)
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The Aesthetic Life of Cyril Scott (Hardcover, New)
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The first comprehensive account of the life and influences of Cyril
Scott, not merely a composer but an artist in the broadest possible
sense of the term. Prolific and personable, innovative and
contentious, Cyril Scott (1879 - 1970) was considered to be one of
the most promising young talents in modern British music at the
turn of the twentieth century. He was a member of the 'Frankfurt
Group' (together with Percy Grainger, Norman O'Neill, Roger Quilter
and Balfour Gardiner), his music was performed by some of the
leading conductors of the time in Britain and on the Continent, and
his friends included highly influential figures in European
literature, art and politics. Apart from his music, Scott was the
author of many books on alternative medicine, psychology,
Occultism, Theosophy and comparative religion. He also wrote
fiction, autobiography, and poetry. Scott embodied a unique time in
a particularly unique way. His aesthetic ideas informed both his
professional creative practice and his manner of living. He was not
merely a composer, but an artist in thebroadest possible sense of
the term. This book provides the first comprehensive account of
Scott's life and influences as well as an outline and
contextualization of his aesthetic thinking. It traces his changing
conceptionof the function of art and the role of the artist from
his formative exposure to Symbolism through his friendship with the
German poet Stefan George, to his exploration of Western and
Eastern esoteric traditions, showing how the prevailing
cross-pollination of ideas allowed him to develop a fully
integrated rationale for his art and life. The story of Scott's
development guides the reader through some of the most fascinating
intellectual discourses of late-nineteenth and
early-twentieth-century Europe. Sarah Collins' current research
focuses on British music aesthetics and criticism in the
late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. She has a particular
interest in the interaction between turn-of-the-century conceptions
of the function of criticism, theories of critical intuition and
questions of moral philosophy. She lectured at the University of
Queensland from 2006 and joined the faculty ofMonash University in
2012.
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