O. Messian's piano cycle "20 views on the infant Jesus" in the aspect of connection with the legacy of О. Scriabin

Abstract

Purpose of the article. To investigate the significant stylistic influences of О. Scriabin's creative method on О. Messian's compositional approach. Determine the means by which the liturgical and mysterious orientation of the work of both composers is realized. Methodology. The methodological foundations of the work include analytical, comparative-historical and genre-nominative musicological approaches determined by aesthetic, cultural and philosophical positions. This methodological approach allows us to reveal and analyze individual plays of the cycle "20 views on the infant Jesus" in order to find an adequate approach to the construction of interpretation. Scientific novelty. For the first time in Ukrainian musicology, the completeness of the implementation of the idea of scriabinism in the works of О. Messian is being raised. For the first time in this perspective, the cycle "20 views on the infant Jesus"is analyzed. Attention is drawn to the extra-procedural, extra-dramatic, but especially ecstatic identification of the musical meaning of compositions for the first time. Conclusions. Analysis from the accepted perspective of the expressive positions of the O cycle. Messiana demonstrated a pronounced liturgical-mysterious orientation, which correlates with the characteristic attitudes of Scriabin's music. The analysis highlights the effect of" quiet climax", which is" drama on the contrary", since it focuses on the sacred phenomenon of the infant Jesus, which defines the essence of this phenomenon. In the works of О. Messian, we find a "spill" of dance-motor sounds, which corresponds to the Franciscan attitude to sacred danceability – and to divine play in ecstatic compositions by О. Scriabin. The interval-semantic load of the Prometheus Chord Forms a hyper-branched monologue of the cycle of A. Messiaen, in which the basis is the concept of an open sequence of the composition of pieces of the French Clavier tradition, and The Prelude in the sacred sense of its basis of music, as it is seen in the Sonata-poetic heritage of О. Scriabin, and the suite-variational thinking of О. Messiaen.