МУЗЫКА Р. М. ГЛИЭРА ДЛЯ ДРАМАТИЧЕСКОГО ТЕАТРА

Abstract

The article is dedicated to R. M. Glière, a famous composer of the XXth century. One of the little- explored pages of his oeuvre is music for the drama theatre, which he periodically worked on throughout his life (1905–1956). At the moment, 15 scores are known to exist, many lost. Glière had a long and fruitful collaboration with Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko and the music studio at the Moscow Art Theatre. Their first joint work on Aristophanes’ play “Lisistrata” was revolutionary and especially successful. The music material has hardly been preserved, it is difficult to get an idea of the performance from the surviving sketches. Indirect evidence of Glière’s masterwork is found in the published letters of Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko and O. S. Bokshanskaya. This production is highly appreciated in the works devoted to the history of the theatre, but there is very little attention paid to music. The fate of the play “Lisistrata” by Aristophanes in Russia is interesting: editions, translations, repeated attempts at stage realisation, including in the recent past. The article provides a number of explanations for such popularity of “Lisistrata”. The production of Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko is one of the best, the more surprising is the fact that Glière’s contribution to the development of drama theatre is underestimated, and the example of “Lysistrata” is especially indicative.