The Life of Music and the Music of Life (Notes 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960)

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Viktor P. Bobrovsky

Abstract

V.P. Bobrovsky, in his diary entries “The Life of Music and the Music of Life,” refers to the idea of his life, formulating it and developing some thesis related to it. For the first part, which is published in this issue of the journal, were selected fragments of the manuscript which deal with the most general problems related to the subject. For easy perception, the main subjects are indicated in square brackets in the text. Particularly, these are: the relationship between life and music, music in a number of arts, patterns of organizing the life and music and the forms of their manifesting, the relationship between the general and the individual in music and life, the role of the individual in music and life, the nature of a musical image, the form and content in music, the analogy between a living organism and a piece of music, objective “unfreedom” and subjective freedom in music and life, a dialectical way of understanding musical work content, music and life sensory-rational and supersensible comprehension. The text retains the original spelling and punctuation.


Keywords: the relationship between life and music, general and individual in music and life, musical image, form and content in music, the dialectical way of the musical work content understanding.

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Bobrovsky В. П. (2024). The Life of Music and the Music of Life (Notes 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960). Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, 54(1), 56–67. https://doi.org/10.17674/2782-3601.2024.1.056-067
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From the History of Domestic Thought about Music
Author Biography

Viktor P. Bobrovsky

Viktor P. Bobrovsky (1906–1979), DrSci (Arts), professor. One of the founders of the functional school in modern musicology, the creator of the functional theory of musical form, the variability of its functions, which made it possible to explain many atypical forms in the music of the Romantic era and the 20th century. Author of numerous works on Shostakovich, two volumes of essays “Thematicism as a Factor in Musical Thinking” based on the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, etc. He taught at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (1949–1970), at the State Gnessins Musical Pedagogical Institute (1954–1963, 1972–1978). At the same time he worked at the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Art Studies (1970–1979). Among his students are famous musicians: Yuri M. Butsko, Yuri V. Vorontsov, Vera B. Valkova, Yuri I. Paisov, Marina P. Rakhmanova, Valentina V. Rubtsova, Mikhail A. Saponov, Evgeniya R. Skurko, Aleksander S. Sokolov, Izolda O. Zacher, etc.