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The Notebooks of Alexander Skryabin (Hardcover)
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The Notebooks of Alexander Skryabin (Hardcover)
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Russian composer Alexander Skryabin's life spanned the late
romantic era and the momentous early years of the twentieth
century, but was cut short before the end of the first world war.
In a predominantly conservative era in the Russian musical scene,
he drew inspiration from poets, philosophers, and dramatists of the
Silver Age, a period of radical artistic renewal in Russia.
Possessed by an apocalyptic vision of transformation, aspects of
which he shared with other Russian thinkers and artists of the
period, Skryabin transformed his musical language from a ripe
Romantic style into a far-reaching, radical instrument for the
expression of his ideas. This newly translated collection of the
composer's writings and letters allows readers to experience and
understand Skryabin's worldview, personality, and life as never
before. The Notebooks of Alexander Skryabin features commentary
based on original materials and accounts by the composer's friends
and associates, dispelling popular misconceptions about his life
and revealing the dazzling constellation of philosophies that
comprised his world of ideas, from Ancient Greek and German
Idealist philosophy to the writings of Nietzsche, and Indian
culture to the Theosophical writings of H. P. Blavatsky. Close
textual readings and new biographical insights converge to present
a vivid impression of Skryabin's thought and its impact on his
musical compositions.
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