DOI: 10.36871 / hon.202204143

Authors

L. V. Milvit
Russian State Specialized Academy of Arts, Moscow, 121165, Russian Federation

Abstract

The article presents a creative portrait of Leonid Desyatnikov, woven from various fragments of interviews of different years. The author recreates the creative portrait of the composer in the form of an imaginary dialogue, interspersing hypothetical (so-called "additional") questions with the composer's own real questions and answers. Desyatnikov's statements are ironic, contradictory, and intellectual. As a result of this "conversation", an ambiguous image of the composer is formed, whose aesthetics is difficult to attribute to any particular stylistic direction — neoclassicism, avant-garde, postmodernism or metamodernism. The article shows Desyatnikov's involvement in the "Petersburg Text" and, to a greater extent, in I. Stravinsky.

Keywords

L. Desyatnikov, interview, contradiction, craft and creativity, tradition, contemporary music