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Slovenská hudba, Vol. 49, No 3 p.319-342, 2023

Title: Ruská pieseň a hudba klasicizmu a romantizmu I
Author: Vladimír GODÁR
Abstract: History of European composed music, the existence of which is conditioned by the written notated record, oscillates between the endeavours to reach a universal language with the help of a unified style, which would be gradually adopted by great and small (local/national) cultures, and efforts in individual modifications of that style, determined not only by artistic, but also political and social contexts. Both tendencies can be seen also in the climactic phases of development of Renaissance, Baroque and Classicist-Romantic music.
The submitted study has focused on the involvement of the Russian modification of the Classicist-Romantic musical language in the European music. The first part of the text (Air russe – Air cosaque – Air d’Ukraine – Schöne Minka) depicts the early efforts in creating collections of national songs, which took place in the Tsarist Russia as early as in the final third of the 18th century (Vasily Fyodorovich Trutovsky (ca. 1740 – ca. 1810), Sobranie russkich prostych pesen s notami, four books, Saint Petersburg 1776, 1778, 1778, 1795; and especially Nikolay Aleksandrovich Lvov (1753 – 1803) and Ivan Prač (Johann Pratsch, 1750 – 1818), Sobranie narodnych russkich pesen s ich golosami, Saint Petersburg 1790, 1806 (enlarged edition), 1815, 1896).
Initiatives of Trutovsky, Lvov and Prač/Pratsch had goals similar to those of the Englishman George Thomson (1757 – 1851) and the Germans Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744 – 1803) and Clemens Brentano (1778 – 1842). It was namely the collection of Lvov and Prač/Pratsch which appeared in study room not only of musicians in Russia, but also in Western Europe (Jan Ladislav Dussek, Ludwig van Beethoven, Anton Reicha, Johann Nepomuk Hummel etc.). The contacts of western music with the Russian one through national song can be well illustrated on the history of utilization of a Russian (Ukrainian) song Yechal kozak za Dunay in arrangements for piano, piano duet, guitar, harp and in chamber and orchestral pieces – above all as a theme with variations.
Keywords: collections of national songs; Air russe; Air cosaque; Air d’Ukraine; Schöne Minka
Published online: 02-Oct-2023
Year: 2023, Volume: 49, Issue: 2 Page From: 319, Page To: 342
doi:10.4149/SH_2023_3_3


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