String Quartets by Soviet and Russian Composers in Memory of Shostakovich
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The article examines six string quartets by Soviet and Russian
composers dedicated to the memory of Dmitri Shostakovich:
Arno Babadjanyan’s Third String Quartet (1976), S. Tsintsadze’s
Ninth String Quartet (1977), Yuri Falik’s Fourth String Quartet
(1977), Alexei Nikolayev’s Third String Quartet (1981), Andrei
Eshpai’s “Concordia discordans” String Quartet (1991) and
Roman Ledenyov’s String Quartet “Contrasts” (2000). The
author introduces the reader to the essential domain of memorial
music of the last quarter of the 20th century – string quartets
in memory of Dmitri Shostakovich, including the unpublished
ones. The genre of the string quartet is presented as one of the
predominant bearers of the tradition of the musical epitaph
in Russian art. The influence of Shostakovich’s string quartet
writing on the traits of the styles of the works dedicated to his
memory is traced. The individual features of the composers’
conceptions of their memorial works, in which a dialogue of
styles is combined with artistic traits characteristic for memorial
music, are marked out.
Keywords: Dmitri Shostakovich, memorial music, string
quartet, poly-stylistics, dialogue of styles
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