The bassoon as a monument of musical culture: source studies

Abstract

The article for the first time in Ukrainian historiography, museology and monumentology considers works of European fine art, where there is an image of a wind wooden musical instrument bassoon. Works of painting, graphics, works of monumental art (sculpture) are analyzed. This is a characteristic of the collections of bassoons in museums in Western Europe, the USA and Canada. Publications stored in the funds of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, Yaroslav Mudryi National Library Of Ukraine, the National Historical Library of Ukraine, the National Scientific and Research Restoration Center of Ukraine were used. The expositions of the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts (Kyiv), the Museum of Theatrical, Musical and Film Art of Ukraine (Kyiv), the State Yagotynsky Historical Museum (Yagotyn, Kyiv Region), as well as Internet resources of collections of wind instruments of a number of museums in Europe, the USA and Canada are analyzed. Materials from the personal archive and musical collection of the bassoonist, teacher in the class of wind musical instruments, soloist of orchestra V. Kepin (Kyiv) were involved. Based on the analysis, it was concluded that the Flemish artist Dеnis van Alsloot can be considered one of the first in European painting, which brought to our time the composition of wind musical instruments characteristic of the musical culture of Western Europe of the XVII century. In Ukraine, one of the oldest copies of the bassoon (1730s) is stored in the Museum of Theatrical, Musical and Film Art of Ukraine (Kyiv).