“THE FACES OF THE SLEEPERS ARE BEAUTIFUL” BY Y. ABDOKOV. “MY SOUL WILL ONLY SHED LIGHT…”
Abstract
This article is a stroke to the portrait of the contemporary Russian composer, educator and professor of Moscow Conservatory Y. B. Abdokov. Being a man of high spiritual culture and ethics, possessing a bright individual style, Yuri Borisovich continues to implement in his creativity the tradition of domestic music of the second half of the XX century – N. I. Pejko and B. A. Tchaikovsky. The artistic world of Y. B. Abdokov is deeply poetic. His scores are distinguished by the highest level of polyphonic mastery and timbre dramaturgy. In this article through the lens of creative attitudes Y. B. Abdokov attempts to reveal some facets of his compositional appearance, as well as to characterize the figurative-intonation world of one of the representative works of Yuri Abdokov – elegiac poem “Beautiful Are the Faces of the Sleeping” according to V. V. Kurnosenko from the cycle of the Four Poems for String Orchestra “Architecture of Sound”.
About the Authors
L. V. Gavrilova
Dmitry Khvorostovsky Siberian State Academy of Arts
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Liudmila V. Gavrilova, D. Sc. (Art Criticism), Full Professor, Head of the Department History of Music
660049, Krasnoyarsk
A. L. Shipitsyna
Dmitry Khvorostovsky Siberian State Academy of Arts
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Anastasia L. Shipitsyna, student of Department Music History
660049, Krasnoyarsk
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Review
For citations:
Gavrilova L.V., Shipitsyna A.L. “THE FACES OF THE SLEEPERS ARE BEAUTIFUL” BY Y. ABDOKOV. “MY SOUL WILL ONLY SHED LIGHT…”. ARTE. 2025;(4):5-19. (In Russ.)
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