Russian musical avant-garde of the early 20th century and D. Shostakovich’s «The Nose»

- · 25.12.2024

Original article
DOI: 10.56620/2227-9997-2024-4-44-55

Alexander I. Demchenko

L. V. Sobinov Saratov State Conservatory, Saratov, Russia,
alexdem43@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4544-4791
Abstract: The article is devoted to D. Shostakovich’s opera «The Nose», which is considered in the context of the Russian avant-garde of the early XX century. It is noted a rather wide range of artistic search of representatives of the early avant-garde in Russian music: polytonality and multi-second chords (V. Rebikov), atonalism and principles of serial organisation of sound material (E. Golyshev, N. Roslavets), experiments of quarter-tone music (A. Avraamov, I. Vyshnegradsky, A. Lurie, M. Matyushin), anticipation of pointillism and minimalism, approbation of noise, concrete and electronic music techniques (A. Lurie, N. Obukhov), constructive-urban aspirations (V. Deshevov, A. Mosolov).

It is then stated that this panorama of the Russian musical avant-garde must be joined by those creators of art whose creative endeavours were no less intense and whose fruitfulness of endeavours proved to be extremely important — we mean the intensity of the artistic endeavours of the late A. Scriabin, I. Stravinsky and S. Prokofiev. The early D. Shostakovich, whose most radical opus was the opera «The Nose», was no less daring in his innovations. The article discusses in detail the main parameters of its «avant-garde» character: grotesque orientation, parodic nature, paradoxicality, aesthetics of absurdity, condensed criticism, demonstrative unconventionality of the performance and experimental nature of the instrumental score.

Keywords: Russian music, early XX century, early avant-garde, Shostakovich’s оpera «The Nose»

For citation: Demchenko A. I. Russian musical avant-garde of the early 20th century and D. Shostakovich’s «The Nose». Scholarly papers of Gnesin Russian Academy of Music. 2024;(4):44-55. (In Russ.). DOI: 10.56620/2227-9997-2024-4-44-55

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