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Nietzsche's Orphans: Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire

Nietzsche's Orphans: Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire

Mitchell, Rebecca

Hardcover

Series: Eurasia Past and Present

General World HistoryMusic ReferenceRussian History

ISBN10: 0300208898
ISBN13: 9780300208894
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Jan 5 2016
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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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