Composer Eduard Brylin: Universal Nature of Creative Activity

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to examine the creative path of Eduard Brylin, focusing on the factors that became the foundation for forming his professionalism and ensuring the universal nature of his creative activity. The research methodology is based on the biographical method and the model of a universal creative personality in the aspect of activity universalism (according to O. Komenda). The scientific novelty of the research lies in studying the life chronology of the composer Eduard Brylin as a universal type of musician, namely a universal composer. Conclusions. The basis on which the universal creative figure of E. Brylyn was formed was laid at the initial stage of his life. The musical environment of the family, rooted in national traditions, shaped Eduard’s musical and aesthetic preferences. Hard work, support and assistance from his parents, the professionalism of his teachers and mentors, and his dreams ensured his rapid growth in the piano field. Performing skills enabled the musician to present his work and be a concert performer. His thorough piano training allowed him to create methodical and highly artistic examples of piano pedagogical repertoire for children and youth and to try himself in the piano concerto genre. In the composition E. Brylin continued the traditions of his mentors, choosing to rely on folk song sources, appealing through A. Shtogarenko to the works of M. Lysenko. His intelligence and natural introversion led him to gravitate towards chamber genres, in which the lyrical facets of the composer’s personality were fully revealed. We define the 2000s as an acmeological period of the musician’s creative work because this time was fruitful in the implementation of various types of musical activities, which emphasises the universal nature of the artist’s creative activity. Loyalty to his musical and aesthetic ideals became the starting point for the realisation of Eduard Brylin’s creative potential as a universal composer.