Individual-author aspect of style synthesis in piano sonatas V. Silvestrov.

Индивидуально-авторский аспект стилевого синтеза в фортепианных сонатах В. Сильвестрова

Abstract

The purpose of work is to examine ways and means of implementing style interactions in Valentine Silvestrov’s piano sonatas, as well as defining the individual and author’s aspect of style synthesis as a reflection of the concept of an «intuited worldview» in the second half of the twentieth century. Methodology: historiographic, genre-nominative and analytical musicological approaches are applied in the work. Scientific novelty of the work is to broaden the notion of the immanent properties of V. Sylvestrov’s compositional style, in defining typical features of polystylistics in his work. Conclusions. In the composer poetics of V. Silvestrov, we find a convincing example of polystylistics, which requires the appearance of a new nomination, since it does not fit into any of its known types. Proceeding from the peculiarity of individual composer poetics, we propose to define the polystylistics of V. Silvestrov as centrifugal. This nomination essentially clarifies the composer’s creative method, the riddle of which lies in the fact that V. Sylvestrov not so much creates a distance between «one’s own» and «another’s» as he tries to approach the latter closer, strives in this dialogue to find a new affinity, a new stage of identity.
Keywords: piano sonata, polystylistics, style, centrifugal polystylistics, weakened dynamics, sonority