UDC 792.82-05
DOI: 10.36871/hon.202304053
Authors
Olga A. Urvantseva,
Magnitogorsk State Conservatory (Academy) named after M. I. Glinka, Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk region, 455036, Russian Federation
Abstract
The article examines the role of the Ivanovka estate in Rachmaninoff’s creative life as a “home of the gentry” with a special spatial and temporal organisation of life and a special style of family relationships. This way of life in the family manors of the nobility, described in the novels of the classics of Russian literature, has been called in philology “estate topos”. The article, aimed at clarifying the structure and content of the concept of “estate topos” as applied to Rachmaninoff's work, solves the problems, firstly, of determining the value, semantic and psychological status of Ivanovka in the composer’s life, and secondly, of identifying the significance of the House and Garden as the most important elements of the estate as a source of inspiration for creativity. Another task was to highlight the idyllic and elegiac components in the structure of the “estate topos”, as well as to reveal a stable invariant complex of expressive means for their implementation in Rachmaninoff’s romances. Based on the analysis of the romances “It’s Good Here”, “Island”, “Lilac”, “Dream”, “Morning”, “These Summer Nights”, a conclusion is made about the differentiation of expressive means in the sphere of the idyllic mode, due to the predominance of pictorial or contemplative motifs in the figurative structure of the work, as well as the presence of a personal (author’s) attitude in the works of the elegiac mode.
Keywords
S. V. Rachmaninoff, Ivanovka, “estate topos”, Rachmaninoff’s romances, idyllic mode
