К проблеме влияния религиозного источника на симфоническое и фортепианное творчество Алемдара Караманова

Abstract

Alemdar Karamanov is the creator of a special kind of religious symphony, which was formed during his mature musical period. Religious subject matter provided the foundation for: his symphonic macro-cycles “Sovershyshasya” [“It is Finished”] in ten movements, inspired by the four Gospels, “Byst’” [“That Which Shall Be”] consisting of six symphonies, based on the Book of Revelation, and the Third Piano Concerto, “Ave Мaria.” The inluence of the religious source material on the composer’s music formulates the conceptual invariant of his religious musical compositions. It is deined by the presence of a religious title and a religious program, the creation of his personal symbolic language, the usage of traditional rhetorical Baroque igures and symbols a la Bach, Biblical semantics interpretations of separate instruments, a semantic rendition of form as a “constructive” analogue to a religious program, the inluence of the principle of construction of the religious source on the form of the composition, as well as the uniication of symphonies into macro-cycles capable of embodying the scale, diversity and integrity of the religious sources. Keywords: Alemdar Karamanov, religious symphony, cycles of symphonies “Soversyshasya,” “Byst,” Piano Concerto “Ave Maria”, symphony-revelation