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EnT. Batagova
On the forms of synthesis in modern piano music by Moscow composers
This article is devoted to the piano music by Moscow composers written in the last third of the 20th – early 21st centuries. The role of musicians with dual – composer and piano education, engaged in both composition and concert performance activities, is noted. For such authors as A. Tchaikovsky, L. Bobylev, T. Sergeeva, V. Dovgan, I. Sokolov, A. Ananyev, A. Agazhanov and others, the piano becomes a special sign of involvement in the great culture of the classical-romantic tradition. Traditional and non-traditional forms of synthesis of musical and extra-musical principles are considered. The special character of the refraction of literary-poetic, cultural-historical and pictorial images in piano works with program titles, dedications and author’s comments, is determined. Innovative features of compositions with a programmatic idea in the field of musical language, composition, style, and drama are noted. Special attention is paid to the genre of the piano sonata, which has undergone compositional and musical-linguistic transformations under the influence of programming. In K. Volkov’s Sonata “The Russian North”, the idea of the synthesis of musical and extra-musical principles affects the techniques of musical drama, musical imagery, in V. Ekimovsky’s “Moonlight Sonata” – the choice of inter-textual compositional technique. Based on the analysis of the innovative “Symphony for a dissected Piano” by L. Rodionova, the triptych “Bell Ringer” by E. Kozhevnikova, a conclusion is made about inter-genre synthesis, about the synthesis of piano and orchestral writing. Consideration of the play “Take your Time, Chepaev” by S. Zagniy allows us to conclude about the meta-modernist aspirations of the author and the new form of synthesis of words and music generated by this aesthetics. Another form of art synthesis is noted, represented by the phenomenon of instrumental theatre by S. Zhukov, the author of the “Book of Transformations for a Cooked Piano” and the solo performance “Stikhomania”.
Key words
modern music for piano, Union of Moscow Composers, composers-pianists, synthesis of music and words, synthesis of music and theatre, piano opuses of the late 20th – early 21st centuries, program tendency.
For citation
Batagova T. On the forms of synthesis in modern piano music by Moscow composers. In: South-Russian Musical Anthology. 2024. No. 3. Pp. 67–74.
