The Notebooks of Alexander Skryabin
- Author: Nicholls, Simon
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Contents
- Foreword: Vladimir Ashkenazy
- Editorial procedure:
- The translations
- Russian dates
- Acknowledgements
- Preface : Simon Nicholls
- Cultural context
- Biographical elements
- The Writings of Skryabin (Russkie propilei, Moscow, 1919)
- [Note by Mikhail Gershenzon]
- A Note by Boris de Schloezer on the Preliminary Action 4
- The Notebooks:
- I. A single sheet, written at the age of about sixteen
- II. Period of the First Symphony, around 1900
- III. Chorus from Symphony No. 1
- IV. Libretto for an opera, after the First Symphony but before 1903
- V. Notebook, summer 1904, Switzerland
- VI. Notebook, 1904-5
- VII. Notebook, 1905-6
- VIII. The Poem of Ecstasy
- IX. [The Preliminary Action]:
- 1. Initial version, full text
- 2. Final, fair copy of the text, unfinished
- The Growth of Skryabin's Thought Simon Nicholls
- A 'philosopher-musician'?
- The influence of philosophy:
- Music and philosophy
- Skryabin's reading
- Ernest Renan
- Greek philosophy
- German Idealism
- Russian philosophy and Russian Symbolism
- Conference at Geneva
- The influence of Theosophy
- Indian culture
- Skryabin's philosophy of music
- Skryabin's 'teaching'
- Thought in words, music, colour: Skryabin's developing Symbolist practice
- Skryabin's poetic language
- The Poem of Ecstasy: text and music (1905-1908)
- Prometheus: music, colour and the word (1908-1910)
- The Preliminary Action:
- A preliminary to what? - 'The idea of the Mystery'
- (Leonid Sabaneyev)
- Performance as sacrament
- The music for the Preliminary Action
- People and publications:
- Leonid Sabaneyev
- Mikhail Gershenzon and Russkie propilei
- Supplementary texts by Alexander Skryabin:
- I. Reminiscences of youth
- II. Text to an unfinished Ballade for piano (1887)
- III. Romance (1891)
- IV. An early statement of aspiration (1892)
- Letters to Natal'ya Sekerina:
- V. [June 1892]
- VI. [July 1892]
- VII. [May/June 1893]
- VIII. [June 1893]
- Letters to Margarita Morozova:
- IX. April 1904
- X. [April/May 1906]
- Letters to Tat'yana de Schloezer:
- XI. [January 1905]
- XII. [December 1906]
- XIII. Poem to accompany Sonata No. 4.
- XIV. Open Letter to A. N. Bryanchaninov: 'Art and Politics' (1915)
- Biographical notes
- Bibliography