The Traditions of the St. Petersburg Compositional School in the Children’s Operas by Composer from the Urals Lubov Nikolskaya
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Lyubov Borisovna Nikolskaya (1909–1984) was a composer, music researcher and music
teacher, who graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory, where she majored in composition
(having studied with Maximilian Steinberg) and musicology (as a student of Semyon Ginzburg).
The main period of her creative activity was during the years 1947–1984, when she worked at the
Urals State M. P. Mussorgsky Conservatory, having traversed the path from a teacher to a professor
at the music theory and composition departments. Lyubov Nikolskaya became the founder of the
tradition of composition of children's operas in the Ural Mountains region. She composed about
ten children's operas based on literary works by writers from the Ural Mountains region of the
previous century (“The Silver Hoof” by Pavel Bazhov, “The Devushka-Semidelushka” by Elena
Khorinskaya, etc.). A weighty position in them is held by the domain of fairytale-fantastic imagery.
In the realization of her fantastic imagery Nikolskaya relies on the traditions of the St. Petersburg
Compositional School of the 19th and early 20th centuries, presented by such significant composers
as Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Anatoly Lyadov, Nikolai Tcherepnin and others. The aforementioned
refers to the features of the dramaturgy of the libretto, interpretation of stage images, the specificity
of the use of the means of harmony, counterpoint, texture, and orchestral-timbre color, which is
perceived in the musical vocabulary of her opera compositions examined in this article.
Keywords: Lyubov Nikolskaya, children's operas, the traditions of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov,
Urals Composer School, Pavel Bazhov.
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