«The Composer’s Word and the Composer as Seen by Others»: the 18th Anniversary of the Musicology Project in the Gnessins Russian Academy of Music

Abstract

The article «The Composer’s word and the Composer as seen by others: the 18th anniversary of the musicology project in the Gnessins Russian Academy of Music» is devoted to the theme of composer musicology – a concept that has become central to the series of collections «The Composer’s Word».

This musicology project arose in the Gnessins Russian Academy of music in 2001. The article offers a general view of the concept of the collection, the materials published in the books — «The Composer’s Word» / «Slovo kompozitora» (2001), «The Composer’s Word: Thoughts on Music»/ «Slovo kompozitora: mysli o muzyke» (2011), «The Composer’s word and the Composer as seen by others»/ «Slovo kompozitora i o kompozitore» (2016).

The texts published in the collections reflect both the Russian musical tradition and the foreign one. Among the authors are composers of the past (A. Scriabin, L. Sabaneev, A. Nikolsky, N. Cherepnin) and the present (E. Denissov, N. Korndorf, A. Larin, V. Tarnopolsky, V. Kikta, K. Volkov, A Batagov, I. Sokolov, and others.). Texts by foreign composers (O. Messiaen, K. Stokhausen, P. Boulez, L. Nono, J. Xenakis, S. Reich, J. Aperghis, M. Stahnke, and others) are presented in translations.

The article also gives an idea of the genres in which the composer’s word is captured, and on the themes raised by the creators.

Keywords: «The Composer’s word and the Composer as seen by others», composer musicology, texts about music

For citation: Panteleeva Yu. N. «The Composer’s Word and the Composer as Seen by Others: the 18th Anniversary of the Musicology Project in the Gnessins Russian Academy of Music» [Electronic source]. In: Sovremennye problemy muzykoznaniya / Contemporary Musicology, 2019, no. 2, pp.70–89. (In Russ.) DOI: 10.56620/2587-9731-2019-2-070-089