The Literary Legacy of the Dutch Composer Alphons Diepenbrock

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Ekaterina D. Devyatko

Abstract

The article is devoted to the work of Dutch composer, musical critic, philologist, essayist and pedagogue Alphons Diepenbrock. His activities were carried out against the background of the process of national development of the Dutch musical culture during the period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Prior to that, Diepenbrock’s legacy did not attract the attention it deserved in Russian musicology, unlike Western, particularly, Dutch musicology. The author of the article became interested in the composer’s work in the spheres of criticism and journalism. In the cultural milieu of the Netherlands, identically to that of France, at the end of the 19th century literary figures were the chief expressers of new ideas. The experience acquired by Diepenbrock due to his participation in the Dutch “Movement of the Eighties,” which became one of the most vanguard in the country, was retained by him throughout his enture life. The sphere of literature served Diepenbrock’s compositional work as a conceptual source from the point of view of aesthetic tendencies and ideals. The article presents the key biographical information about the life of the Dutch musician, as well as the periodization of his work in criticism and journalism and its brief characterization. Information is provided about the editions in which Diepenbrock’s works were published. Thereby, an attempt was made by the author of the article to advance within closer proximity to the understanding of the musical, literary and cultural-philosophical views and interests of Alphons Diepenbrock.

Keywords: Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch musical culture, musical criticism, a fusion of philology and compositional work

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Devyatko, E. D. (2015). The Literary Legacy of the Dutch Composer Alphons Diepenbrock. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (3), 40–46. https://doi.org/10.17674/1997-0854.2015.3.040-046
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Music in the System of Culture
Author Biography

Ekaterina D. Devyatko, Petrozavodskaya gosudarstvennaya konservatoriya im. A. K. Glazunova / Petrozavodsk State A. K. Glazunov Conservatory

Post-graduate student
of the Music History Department

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