Sources of Inspiration in Selected Piano Works by Sergei Slonimsky

ISBN-13: 9783639162622 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 92 str.

Yulia Kozlova

Opis

Sergei Slonimsky is an important composer, withoutwhom Russian music would be incomplete and lesscontroversial. It is not easy to find composers who,with the same success, utilize virtually everyexisting classical and modern music genre in theircompositions.His vividly imaginative compositionsshow a brilliant composers mastery. His musicconsists of a variety of images that contain anabundance of artistic information. Included in thework is a biographical background of the composer, adescription of his compositional style andaccomplishments. The work will focus on Slonimskyspiano pieces and the extra-musical stimuli thatinspired these compositions. The main emphasis ofinvestigation will be related to the works inspiredby musics sister arts - painting and sculpture (thesuite Three Graces and Passing-by Beauty). Thevisual and sound images and the message both theartist and the composer try to convey will becompared and contrasted. The literary aspect ofSlonimskys piano work, his fascination withRomanticism, and his continuation of the Russiantradition of imitating bell sounds in music will alsobe explored.

O autorze

Yulia Kozlova is Associate Professor of Piano at Santa Monica
College in Santa Monica, California. She performs frequently in US
and Russia. Yulia received her Bachelor''s degree from Novgorod
State College of Music, Russia, Master s Degree in Piano Pedagogy
and Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance from The
Ohio State University.