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EnT. Frantova
Faces of the “Yellow Sound” on the boundary of the 20th–21st centuries
The article is devoted to the problem of artistic and cultural value of V. Kandinsky’s work “Yellow Sound”. The practice of modern concert and theatre life demonstrates the active interest of artists in the mentioned opus of Kandinsky. Over the past half century, “The Yellow Sound” has been repeatedly staged in different cities and countries, including Rostov-on-Don. The article raises questions about the reasons for the interest of different masters in the named work and about the conformity of modern productions to the author’s concept.
An outstanding artist, a major art theorist, and one of the founders of abstract painting, he was fascinated by the idea of a synthesis of the arts. Kandinsky developed theoretical issues of the synthesis of the arts in his numerous works, where he put forward the idea of a contrapuntal relationship of elements of different arts – the movement of the word, the sound and the paint. By giving symbolic meaning to different elements, Kandinsky assigned the most important role of the arts to music in the synthesis. According to Kandinsky, the theatre stage was the platform for realizing the idea of synthesis in artistic form. But on stage, according to Kandinsky’s plan, was not realized a traditional drama with a plot and specific characters, but a so-called (Kandinsky’s definition) “stage composition”. The practical embodiment of the “stage composition” idea was “The Yellow Sound”. Its textual basis (script) was developed in detail by the author and published in the anthology “The Blue Rider” in 1914 (final version). As a result of a series of failures, the staging of the stage composition was not carried out during the author’s lifetime. In the numerous productions of “The Yellow Sound”, since 1972, many very diverse ideas have been realized, indirectly comparable to Kandinsky’s concept, but sometimes very far from the source.
Key words
“Yellow Sound”, V. Kandinsky, stage composition, synthesis of arts, artistic counterpoint.
For citation
Frantova T. Faces of the “Yellow Sound” on the boundary of the 20th–21st centuries. In: South-Russian Musical Anthology. 2024. No. 4. Pp. 93–97.
