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Supplementary Texts by Alexander Skryabin
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Two notes from Skryabin’s youth: an account of his hand injury and its effect on his religious beliefs, and a statement of his inner aspirations. Three music-related texts: annotations to an unfinished Ballade, the text of a song, and a poem to complement the Fourth Sonata. Early letters to Natalya Sekerina showing Skryabin’s philosophical relation to nature. Letters to his partner Tat’yana de Schloezer concerning the creative process, to his patron Margarita Morozova on the sources of his thinking and his attitude to contemporary politics. An open letter to Aleksandr Bryanchaninov on the significance of the War.
Oxford University Press
Title: Supplementary Texts by Alexander Skryabin
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Two notes from Skryabin’s youth: an account of his hand injury and its effect on his religious beliefs, and a statement of his inner aspirations.
Three music-related texts: annotations to an unfinished Ballade, the text of a song, and a poem to complement the Fourth Sonata.
Early letters to Natalya Sekerina showing Skryabin’s philosophical relation to nature.
Letters to his partner Tat’yana de Schloezer concerning the creative process, to his patron Margarita Morozova on the sources of his thinking and his attitude to contemporary politics.
An open letter to Aleksandr Bryanchaninov on the significance of the War.
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