1st Edition
Art, Music, and Mysticism at the Fin de Siècle Seeing and Hearing the Beyond
Aspiring Towards the Absolute
Corrinne Chong and Michelle Foot
Setting the Stage: A Symbolist Prelude
1. Music and Aesthetic Liturgy in Symbolist Art Salons: The Cases of Joséphin Péladan and Jean Delville
Lucien Midavaine
2. Deathbed Conversions, Troglodytes, and Baths for the Brain: Mysticism in the Fin-de-siècle Historical Imagination
Tadhg Sauvey
3. “En blanc et immobile”: Erik Satie, Mysticism and Whiteness
Caroline Potter
4. “Josephin ‘Sâr’ Péladan, Charles Tournemire, and Apocalyptic Mysticism
Robert Sholl
Synaesthesia in Scandinavia
5. Musical Interaction with Finnish Visual Arts: The Composer Jean Sibelius, and Artists Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Oscar Parviainen and Ellen Thesleff
Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff
6. Sexing Parsifal: Gendered Synaesthesia and Transpositions in Hilma af Klint’s Abstraction
Jadra Ryle
Vibrations, Abstraction, and Tonality: Giving Sound Form
7. George Frederic Watts’s “Mesmeric Dolls”: Music and Theosophy in the Painter’s Late Works
Spyros Petritakis
8. Composing “Symmorphies”: Chromatism, Astral Vision and Music of the Spheres in František Kupka’s Cosmological Modernism
Fae Brauer
9. Ringing Cosmos, Returning Souls: Expressions of the Beyond in Webern’s
Five Pieces for Orchestra Op. 10 and Kandinsky’s All Saints Day Paintings
Elizabeth T. Abbate
10. Music as Key to the Beyond: Steiner and Kandinsky’s Scenic Compositions against Materialism
David Picquart
11. Tonality and (the) “Beyond”: Elgar’s Gerontius and String Quartet Piacevole
Oliver Chandler
Biography
Corrinne Chong, PhD, is Assistant Curator at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, USA.
Michelle Foot, PhD, is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Art at the University of Edinburgh.
