Szymanowski, Eroticism and the Voices of Mythology (Royal Musical Association Monographs) (Royal Musical Association Monographs) (Royal Musical Association Monographs)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: July 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780947854102
Subjects: 20th century music; Composers & musicians; Theory of music & musicology; Szymanowski, Karol,; Instruction & Study - Voice; Music/Songbooks; Music; Individual Composer & Musician; Szymanowski, Karol; History & Criticism - By Composer; 1882-1937; Criticism and interpretation; Philosophy and aesthetics
First sentence: What Szymanowski believed he needed for the task was the 'irresistible, suggestive power' of Dostoyevsky, whose 'vision of the "integral man" is like a magic formula, through which he suddenly reveals the hidden significance of seemingly the most paradoxical events and defines the confused content of the integral man's inner life'.2