Simon Morrison 
Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement, Second Edition [EPUB ebook] 

Acclaimed for treading new ground in operatic studies of the period, Simon Morrison’s influential and now-classic text explores music and the occult during the Russian Symbolist movement. Including previously unavailable archival materials about Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky, this wholly revised edition is both up to date and revelatory. Topics range from decadence to pantheism, musical devilry to narcotic-infused evocations of heaven, the influence of Wagner, and the significance of contemporaneous Russian literature. Symbolism tested boundaries and reached for extremes so as to imagine art uniting people, facilitating communion with nature, and ultimately transcending reality. Within this framework, Morrison examines four lesser-known works by canonical composers—Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Scriabin, and Sergey Prokofiev—and in this new edition also considers Alexandre Gretchaninoff’s
Sister Beatrice and Alexander Kastalsky’s
Klara Milich, while also making the case for reviving Vladimir Rebikov’s
The Christmas Tree.

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Acknowledgments

A Note on Transliteration and Dates


Introduction

1 • Decadence: Tchaikovsky at the Edge

Interlude • Symbolism’s Nutcracker


2 • Syncretism: Rimsky-Korsakov and Belsky

Interlude • Klara Milich


3 • Theurgy: Scriabin and the Impossible

Interlude • Another Church Musician Writes an Opera


4 • Mimesis: Prokofiev’s Demons

Conclusion


Notes

Index

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Simon Morrison is Professor of Music and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. He is the author of Bolshoi Confidential, The People's Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years, and Lina and Serge: The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev.