St. Petersburg composer school in the lens of the journal “Musical Academy” of the turn of the XX–XXI centuries
Abstract
On the basis of the corpus of materials of the authoritative journal Musical Academy for the period from 1993 to 2003, the creative activity of representatives of one of the leading Russian schools of composition – the St.Petersburg school – is analyzed. The impulse for the study was an interview with two St. Petersburg composers, G. Banshchikov and S. Banevich, published in the journal in 1995, in which both authors demonstrated a rather disparate understanding of the peculiarities of their school. Accordingly, the purpose of this article is to study the genre and stylistic specifics of St. Petersburg composers’ work in the paradigm of «traditioninnovation» in the receptive field of the journal at the turn of the XX–XXI centuries. For its realization selected informational and analytical publications about A. Petrov and B. Tishchenko, as heirs of the Shostakovich school, and S. Slonimsky, whose creative aspirations are in many ways closely related to the «Russian Five». Ultimately, it was concluded: St Petersburg composers whose music is characterized by “structure”, “logic” and “selectivity” in the choice of means of musical expression continue to develop the great traditions they have inherited, but they do so on a qualitatively new level, thus choosing the intensive path of innovation.
About the Author
A. I. Shinkarenko
A. Glazunov Petrozavodsk State Conservatory
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Anastasia I. Shinkarenko, postgraduate student of the History of Music Department
Petrozavodsk, 185031
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Shinkarenko A.I. St. Petersburg composer school in the lens of the journal “Musical Academy” of the turn of the XX–XXI centuries. ARTE. 2025;(3):16-22. (In Russ.)
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