About «Own» and «Other’s» in Finale of Shostakovich’s Fifteenth Symphony

Olga V. Shmakova

Abstract


The final movement of the Fifteenth Symphony by Shostakovich marks not only the end of this cycle, but represents the last of all works by composer. As was noted by M. Aranovskiy, Y. Paisov, and L. Akopyan, quotations from «own» and «other’s» works form here a complex polysemous whole. This article recreates the general artistic and associative realm of the last symphony’s final interpretations through “The Destiny paradigm”.

 

Keywords: Symphonic cycle, finale, semantics, quotation, artistic idea, Destiny paradigm.

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