MYKOLA LASTOVETSKYI’S SYMPHONIC CREATIVITY ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE WORK “THE LEGEND ABOUT KARMALIUK”

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to consider the symphonic creativity of the modern Ukrainian composer Mykola Lastovetskyi (*1947) on the example of the analysis of his work “The Legend about Karmaliuk” (1969, second edition 1999, third edition 2024). The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that it is the first time that the identified work has been investigated in the context of the composer’s individual compositional style. For this, a complex methodological approach was used, with the predominance of musicological, theoretical-analytical, systematic, comparative and generalizing methods. Conclusions.The idea of creating a work about U. Karmalіuk appeared during composer’s excursion to the Old Fortress in Kamianets-Podilskyi, in which one of the towers is dedicated to the figure of a national hero.The symphonic works of M. Lastovetskyi vividly reflects his thinking as a composer, as a symphonist. In the work “The Legend about Karmaliuk”, as in other symphonic compositions, the artist uses various orchestral tools, tonal dramaturgy and polyphonic techniques. The genre-stylistic paradigm of the work correlates with its programmatic idea, structure, musical semantics and musical expressive means. For the intonation basis of the symphonic “Legends about Karmaliuk” by M. Lastovetskyі used the version of the melody of the song about the folk avenger «The sun rises over Siberia». The image of Ustym Karmaliuk, as a lyrical hero, is revealed consistently, with a positive-connotative image-emotional dominant. Creating hero’s musical characteristics, the timbres of wind instruments prevail, which is related to the heroic image of the main character. In general, the musical text of “The Legends about Karmaliuk” testifies to the artist’s attraction to texture polyphonization, timbre dramaturgy, original form (mixed or free variation-sonata), demonstrates a free mastery of orchestral means, the originality of composer’s creative method.