Comprehending the World of Music: on Studying Viktor P. Bobrovsky’s Archive

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Evgeniya I. Chigareva

Abstract

The article talks about V.P. Bobrovsky’s archive, it is given a short survey of 1990–2000 issues, connected with his name. However, the main place occupy published for the first time the scholar’s diary notes “The Life of Music and the Music of Life. Notesˮ. In them, the author formulates and develops the key idea of his life: the relationship, interaction of music and life, reflection, moreover, the embodiment of the structure of music in life laws. At the same time, the article talks about Bobrovsky’s spiritual quest and his gradual coming to faith. This issue publishes the first part of the manuscript, which contains the most general thoughts related to Bobrovsky’s idea – the correlation between the general and the individual, the nature of the musical image, the form and content in music. The second part of the manuscript will be published in the next issue of the journal, in which this idea is examined on specific material.


Keywords: The life of music, the music of life, spiritual quests, general and individual, musical image, form and content in music.

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How to Cite
Chigareva Е. И. (2024). Comprehending the World of Music: on Studying Viktor P. Bobrovsky’s Archive. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 54(1), 48–55. https://doi.org/10.17674/2782-3601.2024.1.048-055
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From the History of Domestic Thought about Music
Author Biography

Evgeniya I. Chigareva, Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, Russia

DrSci (Arts), Professor at Music Department