Refl ection of the scientifi c-critical position of R. Genika in his letters to N. Findeisen

M.s Linnik

doi:10.34064/khnum2-13.02

Abstract

Refl ection of the scientifi c-critical position of R. Genika in his letters to N. Findeisen

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The present article is devoted to the consideration of the critical activity of R
The source of conclusions about the direction of the search of R. Genika in all these areas can be his correspondence with a prominent figure of the Imperial Russian Musical Society (IRMS), one of the leading musical writers and critics of Russia of the late 19th – early 20th centuries, Nikolai Fyodorovich Findeisen (1868–1928)
Genika’s attitude to the “contemporaries”, is his steady interest in the tradition, which he himself called the “Romanesque”. He treated his national school with a natural reverence, considering it to be underestimated in foreign, first of all, German “histories of music”

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The present article is devoted to the consideration of the critical activity of R. One of the most prominent creative personalities in the musical life of Kharkov during the period of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the founder of the Kharkov professional music school. The present study is based on the material of the correspondence between R. Findeisen – the chief editor of the Russian Musical Newspaper, the publisher of historical essays. Genika’s critical views, his assessment of the intonation situation of the musical era represented by him have been analyzed; we have stated his critical position toward the creative work of composers of the past and present

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