Coloristic Properties of Piano Music Texture in Nikolai Medtner’s Works

Abstract

This article focuses on the research of colour as applied to N. Medtner's piano works. It discusses the composer's views on brilliance of colour, sonority (звучность) of music and texture as one of its most important means of expression. It is proved that colour interpretation of piano music texture in Medtner's works differs from the views on the colour embodied in the impressionists' music. Thus, that formed an opinion about scarce colours, colour insufficiency of Medtner's musical compositions. Basing on the analysis of Medtner's works, the author changes the existing point of view by showing the dependence of specific colour of Medtner's works' texture on this original composer's rich, artistic and figurative system of music, thus actualizing the need for in-depth research of semantic contexts of his artistic images for the formation of the tradition of Medtner's music performance..