MUSIC OF SHOSTAKOVICH

Music of Shostakovich

What opportunities does the music of Shostakovich offer for a discussion of musical tradition and dissent?

In the history of world music, there are many creative figures that are fully versatile and reflect the era in which they lived. They have become an emblem, a symbol, the embodiment of their age, revealing its essence, its human problems, and lasting values. There are many of such names in the history of mankind who have changed the way of thinking of their society through their work; one of them is Dmitry Shostakovich.

Russian music composer Dmitry Shostakovich is a genius and holds worldwide recognition for his work. Now it is no need to prove they had to do it when he lived and gradually, through the resistance and the thorns, won his confession. Shostakovich is one of the most performed composers in the world and his works are open to people such profound truths that will help them to live and make sense of their history and modernity (McBurney, 2002, 33). On the work of Shostakovich, there is a vast literature in many languages, primarily domestic. It, like the composer's life, thoroughly investigated. Monograph, a book about specific genres and works, scientific collections, guides, popular literature, published thousands of articles. And yet his work, as any true genius, is not revealed until the end. Each era will open it more and more new faces, knowing it is art in light of the problems of later times. So about Shostakovich will write as much as his music will continue to exist, it is always there.

Works by Shostakovich is an epoch in art and in life. Creation of any great artist can only be understood by reference to his time. But this time, reflected in the art of the artist, cannot be understood outside of his work (Volkov, 2004, 77). The art reveals its true nature, his character and his contradictions. In this essay, and put the main task - to reveal the time Shostakovich through his work, and the last show in the light of his time. Many of the major writers, composers and artists in our culture first half of XX century, reflected the different, though the essential aspects of his time. Of course, in the domestic literature was studied and the tragic content of the music of Shostakovich. But it seems that the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the XXI century have presented this problem in a different light, and therefore there could be some new aspects in its coverage. Therefore, the main subject of analysis here is the problem of "the artist and his time" in their interaction (Kovnatskaya, 2000, 24).

There were many historical conflicts that appear in his work. From a young age Shostakovich's music became for me a kind of "textbook of life." It opened a lot to me in her, forced her to think about problems and even to some extent directed the way of ...