SOCIO-CULTURAL CONDITIONALITY OF UKRAINIAN PIANO ART IN THE EMIGRATION OF THE FIRST THIRD OF THE TWENTIES CENTURY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of socio-cultural factors as determinants of the vector of formation of national self-consciousness of pianists of the Ukrainian diaspora in Prague, Vienna, Munich and Berlin. It was found that the formation and development of Ukrainian piano art in exile was called to life by special social conditions and the general cultural background on which their performing and compositional work was formed. The programs of concerts of Ukrainian pianists are analyzed, their active participation in events whose themes were important for Ukrainian communities abroad is recorded – in holding solemn academies to honor prominent figures of Ukrainian art, literature and science, in celebrating their anniversaries, celebrating important events in Ukrainian history. This gave an understanding of how the works of Ukrainian music were part of their performing repertoire and became an integral part of world piano music. The names of representatives of Ukrainian piano art in the leading centers of the Ukrainian youth movement in the Czech (Prague) and German (Munich, Berlin) diaspora are systematized. Examples of cooperation of Ukrainian pianists with European performers and with student societies were revealed, which helped to create prospects in gaining experience of their public performances and to attract stable attention of the general public to the Ukrainian repertoire and Ukrainian piano art; participation in group concerts and concluding large-scale solo programs always included the inclusion of compositions focused on the embodiment of a certain national idea; significant influence of the environment and musical life of Berlin on the formation of the compositional style of pianists and composers Antin Rudnitsky and Stefania Turkevich, which was manifested in the combination of the principles of Ukrainian music with the polystylistics of modernism. It is concluded that tin extremely difficult conditions of merging in emigration of national identity Ukrainian pianists synthesized the achievements of Ukrainian and European centers of piano art.