“The Russian Spirit is Here …” Towards the 145th Anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Birthday
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Sergei Rachmaninoff was allotted a destiny of his life and art filled with harsh ordeals, which was conditioned by the radical break of the historical situation, where Russia turned out to be at the very cusp of global processes. The composer felt keenly to the full extent and came to grips in the artistic sense with such categories as the Russian path and the Russian idea. For the selfsame reasons the aforementioned categories advanced to the front line of the quest in Russian philosophical thought, and the most significant contribution to the comprehension of the given problem range was made by Nikolai Berdyayev. The recreation of the Russian path in Rachmaninoff’s compositions is most frequently contingent with sad contemplation, with the load of endless worries and hardships, and is filled with incessant longing, whereas the disclosure of the Russian idea is based in his case on the principle of extremities, polarized entities, about which Berdyayev spoke out with all certainty. Gloomy tones were juxtaposed with bright zest of life. Yet another variant of the extremities of the Russian character is disclosed: on the one hand, the barbarism of the Russian “maximalism,” and on the other hand – the heights of spirituality and the gleams of the “Divine.” Berdyayev highlighted in Russian people the aspiration towards the next life, towards the “unearthly,” which in the case of Rachmaninoff generated such a cardinal quality for his music as the elegiac quality, connected with inner struggles and intense spiritual search.
Keywords: the musical culture of Russia, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Berdyayev, Russian mentality, the Russian path, the Russian idea.
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