1941. Moscow Composers in Nalchik: On the Subject of Reflexing Caucasian Folklore in the Soviet Masters’ Creative Work

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Elena B. Dolinskaya

Abstract

The article is devoted to N. Myaskovsky, S. Prokofiev, A. Alexandrov’s creative activity during their evacuation to the North Caucasus at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. In Nalchik, from the hands of Khatu Sagidovich Temirkanov, they received notebooks with recordings of vocal melodies and instrumental tunes of Kabardino-Balkarian folklore. Inspired by the pristine beauty of those unexplored folk tunes, Moscow composers gave them new life in such classical genres as string quartet, symphony and opera. The individuality of the creative approaches of Moscow composers to the folklore of the North Caucasus stimulated innovative solutions. It is stated the continuity of folklore musical sources with their processing by composers of the 19th–20th centuries second half.
The article has the purpose to expand the ideas about the creative activity of domestic composers during the war and the works they created on the basis of the folklore of the North Caucasus peoples. For the article is chosen the essay structure; it serves as a panorama and is designed for the total perception of phenomena. The article is based on four essays: “Folklore and Composersˮ, “N. Myaskovskyˮ, “A. Aleksandrovˮ, “S. Prokofievˮ.


Keywords: Great Patriotic War, N. Myaskovsky, S. Prokofiev, A. Aleksandrov, quartet, symphony, opera, Kabardino-Balkarian folklore.

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Dolinskaya Е. Б. (2023). 1941. Moscow Composers in Nalchik: On the Subject of Reflexing Caucasian Folklore in the Soviet Masters’ Creative Work. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 50(1), 111–121. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/1432
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From the History of Domestic Musical Culture
Author Biography

Elena B. Dolinskaya, P.I. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, Moscow, Russia

DrSci (Arts), Professor