Chopin in the music culture of Russia in the second half of the nineteenth century. From Glinka to Scriabin

• Authors: Tomasz Baranowski
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

This article deals with the reception of Chopin’s music in Russia during the second half of the nineteenth century, as broadly understood. The Chopin cult that developed in Russia was not only genuine, it was exceptional in Europe, giving rise to numerous artistic achievements in many complementary areas, above all composition, pianism and music publishing. The author discusses the issue from an historical perspective, presenting profiles of six outstanding Russian composers in whose life and work the influence of Chopin was at its greatest. The first is Mikhail Glinka, a pioneer of the national orientation in Russian music, who drew abundantly on Chopinian models. The next generation is represented by Anton Rubinstein, the most famous Russian pianist of his times, and two of the Mighty Handful, Mily Balakirev and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. Among the last heirs to Chopin in Russia, pursuing their artistic careers around the turn of the twentieth century, are two composers who masterfully assimilated the stylistic idiom of the composer of the Polonaise-Fantasy, namely Anatoly Lyadov, known as the “Russian Chopin”, and Alexander Scriabin.

Keywords

PL

Russia; Fryderyk Chopin; reception; Chopin style; national style; Mighty Handful

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 139-150

Dates

published

2018-10-17

Contributors

author

Tomasz Baranowski

• doctor, musicologist and pianist, lecturer in the School of Music Theory and Aesthetics of the Institute of Musicology of the University of Warsaw. He is the author of Estetyka ekspresjonizmu w muzyce XX wieku [The aesthetic of expressionism in twentieth-century music] (Białystok, 2006), which in 2007 was nominated for the Jan Długosz Prize, and editor of two volumes of studies devoted to the life and work of Stanisław Moniuszko: W kręgu muzyki Stanisława Moniuszki: szkice i materiały [In the sphere of the music o f Stanisław Moniuszko] (Białystok, 2004) and Książę muzyki naszej. Twórczość Stanisława Moniuszki jako dziedzictwo kultury polskiej i europejskiej [The prince of our music. The work o f Stanisław Moniuszko as a legacy of Polish and European culture] (Warszawa, 2008). In addition, he has published over thirty scholarly articles devoted, among other things, to the music aesthetics, teaching and oeuvre of Chopin, Moniuszko, Karłowicz, Szymanowski, Liszt, Mahler, Scriabin and Messiaen.