B. V. ASAFYEV'S UNPUBLISHED NOTES IN THE MARGINS OF M. P. MUSORGSKY'S ORCHESTRAL SCORE FOR "BORIS GODUNOV"

DOI: 10.36871/hon.202103014

Authors

N. I. Teterina
State Institute for Art Studies, Moscow, Russian Federation

Abstract

This article is devoted to the initial stage in the history of studying M. P. Musorgsky's orchestral style. The first researchers who gain access to the composer's autograph of the orchestral score were B. V. Asafyev and P. A. Lamm. The musicians edited the score of the opera "Boris Godunov" for the premiere, which took place at the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre on February 16, 1928, when after a half-century interval, the author's original orchestration was performed. Two short, but fundamentally important articles by B. V. Asafyev, as well as his notes in the margins of the handwritten score, opened a new stage in the scholarly and artistic understanding of Musorgsky's orchestral dramaturgy and orchestral stylistics.

Keywords

M. P. Musorgsky, opera "Boris Godunov", B. V. Asafyev, P. A. Lamm, V. A. Dranishnikov, State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, orchestral dramaturgy, marginalia