
Nietzsche's Orphans Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire Rebecca Mitchell
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- Series:
- Eurasia Past and Present
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication date:
- 14 Jan 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780300208894
- Imprint:
- Yale University Press
- Dimensions:
- 336 pages: 235 x 156 x 25mm
- Illustrations:
- 24 b-w illus.
- Sales territories:
- World
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“Modernity fragments, but music unites: such is the thesis of this haunting, provocative book. Highlighting Scriabin, Rachmaninoff and the Medtner brothers, Mitchell examines those intense pre-Bolshevik decades when Russian musicians and music-lovers drew on Schopenhauer, Soloviev, and the youthful Nietzsche to elevate and harmonize their homeland. Their ‘musical metaphysics' promised apocalyptic synthesis. Like Orpheus, all was soon dismembered.”—Caryl Emerson, Princeton University
"In this fascinating and poignant analysis of a nation’s search for its musical and cultural destiny, Rebecca Mitchell is a shrewd but sympathetic guide through the dizzying optimism, haunting self-doubt and finally, the despair of Russia’s cultured elite as the spectre of revolution first stalked, then overwhelmed, their country."—Pauline Fairclough, University of Bristol
"A fascinating and deeply informed study of how cultural elites in late imperial Russia invested music with salvific power -- of how 'musical metaphysics' formed their worldview and shaped their search for meaning in the midst of crisis, war, and revolution."—Randall A. Poole, The College of St. Scholastica
Won the 2016 W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize given by the Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies.
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