Victor Abramovich Zuckerman (1903–1988)

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Grigory R. Konson

Abstract

The article is devoted to the legacy of the outstanding Russian
scholar, musician and illuminator, Victor Abramovich
Zuckerman. Along with demonstrating the musician’s formation
as a personality, the author traces out the formation of his method
of integral analysis. On the material of the musicologist’s famous
texts – “B. Schechter’s Symphonic Suite ‘Turkmenistan’,”
“The Dynamic Principle in Musical Form,” “Glinka’s
‘Kamarinskaya’ and its Traditions in Russian Music,” “About
the Musical Language of N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov,” “Notes on
Chopin’s Musical Language” and “The Descriptive Means of
Tchaikovsky’s Lyricism,” the author of the article demonstrates
how Zuckerman with the aid of the method of analysis created
by him discloses the artistic picture of the world, in which reality
is realized in a harmonious unity and diversity. By means of this
musical analysis, formed as a result of the organic interaction of
various spheres of science and art, the scholar immersed himself
into the content of the most diverse sign systems and decoded
them for musicology.

Keywords: Victor Tsukkerman, Russian musicology,
Frederic Chopin, Piotr Tchaikovsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov,
method of integral analysis, artistic image

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How to Cite
Konson, G. R. (2014). Victor Abramovich Zuckerman (1903–1988). Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (2), 34–41. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/89
Section
Creative Profiles of Musicologists
Author Biography

Grigory R. Konson, Maimonides State Classical Academy

Doctor of Arts, Professor,
Chairman of the Department of History
and Theory of the Art of Performance

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