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Emil Medtner is important to Russian culture not only as a theorist of Symbolism, but also as a patient and friend of Carl Gustav Jung and one of the first Russian supporters of psychoanalysis. Here Medtner as a person is of particular interest. Complex and morbid, even in its most extreme expressions his personality reflects the spirit of the Silver Age. The first part of the present paper traces...
Like many persons of their circle, the Medtners were well acquainted with the new trends in modern dance, and especially with Isadora Duncan's dance, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze's rhythmic gymnastic and Rudolf Steiner's Eurhythmie. While Nikolai favoured Duncan dance, Emil preferred Dalcroze and paid several visits to the Swiss maître at his schools in Hellerau and Geneva. The brothers' interest in dance...
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