FROM OBLIVION TO RECOGNITION: THE ENSEMBLE GUITAR LEGACY OF LOISA PUGET IN THE LIGHT OF LVIV ARCHIVE FINDINGS

Abstract

The article proposes a consideration of the ensemble works with guitar of the forgotten French composer of the 19th century. Loisa Puget, found in the archive of the library of the Lviv National Academy of Music named after M. Lysenko. The purpose of the article is to revive the figure and legacy of the composer and prove the importance of her work in the process of formation of Lviv ensemble guitar art in the middle of the 19th century. The scientific novelty lies in the first publication of information about the figure of Puget in modern Ukrainian musicology; about the discovery of her ensemble works for voice, piano and guitar; in an attempt to do their genre classification and in the first consideration of the composer & apos; works in terms of the implication of their vivid imagery with the findings of modern performers and interpreters. Based on the information about Loisa Puget’s life and work collected in spare fragments from reference and encyclopedic publications and the work of Hélène Charnasse, the most important facts of the artist's creative biography have been clarified. The genre varieties of her ensemble works, the peculiarities of the style specificity, the authors of the lyrics of the songs, the publishers and the quality level of the publications, the personalities of the booksellers who distributed her works in Lviv, as well as the role of Matteo Carcassi in bringing the guitar part to a professional level, have been established. The importance of source research and the implementation of source research practice for expanding the base of scientific knowledge and updating scientific facts has been summarized. The discovery of unknown artifacts actualizes the importance of source research practice as a search and study of sources carried out in synergy between the work of a musicologist and a performer. It is proven that introducing the connotation of a “found cultural relic”, returning the works of Loisa Puget to the performing continuum and reflecting on the elevation of the creative status of this extraordinary female composer of the 19th century. will allow restoring the lively, sensually ambivalent character of her music and giving the found relics historical and artistic resonance.