Cultural world of Ukrainian elite in creative legacy of Boris Liatoshynskiy

Abstract

One of the main problems of Ukrainian national culture formation, which was being repressed and neglected for centuries, and several decades was "clamped" between the need to be "padded" in party ideology and survival under severe scholastic taboo is a problem of hitherto discrepancies autochthonous (native) traditions of the past and biased approaches, attitudes, requirements for interpretation of our aesthetic and spiritual past.

Only along with getting formal independence of Ukraine began a new interpretation of the centuries-old Ukrainian Cultural Heritage, return from oblivion its unique artistic heritage, development of research experience, bringing this potential to popular culture creating treasury (storage of cultural values). This led to a growing interest of modern Ukrainian scholars of hushed or withdrew in Soviet times, themes and genres, especially national historical trend, the disclosure of their meaning and significance for cultural science. At the present stage of Ukrainian musical culture development is very important in our view, to find out how it was emerged and originated the statist vision of the history of Ukraine and its culture.

Scientific interest in the problems and development of national retrospectives, including musical culture of Ukraine in the first third of the twentieth century, is driven by the need to recreate historical events attributed to its ups and downs of underground development in an atmosphere of prohibition and repression.

The analysis of scientific sources indicates that performed archival research and publications of A.Adamenko and T.Voronkovoyi [1] – is a brief review of the available documents of the Society; V.Kuzik research papers [4], [5] have intelligence character in nature, and the monograph by O. Bugaev [3] is an attempt to play the archival heritage of M.Leontovich Musical Society. as a holistic phenomenon of musical and cultural process of the 20 th century. In these materials for us within the designated theme, the specific interest is the existence of more obscure facets of creativity of B.Lyatoshinskiy as a member of the functioning process of Ukrainian musical culture within the framework of the M.Leontovich Musical Society and beyond. The object of our attention is the activity of Ukrainian musical theorist and talented composer B.Lyatoshinskiy and his place and degree of influence as music and public figure, who was a member of M.Leontovich Musical Society.

However, the specific aim of this work is to study the importance of the individual personified by Boris Liatoshynskiy in the development of M.Leontovich Music Society and his contribution to the creative, educational and pedagogical sphere of musical culture across the organization as a whole and in relation to its individual members.

National musical culture of this period is characterized by a certain progress: national identity was formed by combining the dynamics of folk expression and the best traditions of classical music. Across the state of that period there were developed a variety of creative societies and Boris Liatoshynskiy joined the creative team of the Association for Contemporary Music at the M.Leontovich Music Society and who led it from 1922 to 1925 years.

In the political context, the fate of the M.Leontovich Musical Society evolved very difficult and controversial – from the most vibrant and exciting events to tragic in the history of the musical culture of the period and was inextricably linked to the life and work of its members. Leontovich Musical Society brought together the two most typical for the time trend, namely a broad democratization of musical culture among the rural and urban population and the professionalization of musical life through music education staff, which led to the creation of specialized secondary and higher music schools, formation of Ukrainian national musical theater, creating philharmonic, symphony orchestras, theater groups, music houses of culture, which enabled professional concert performance. The Leontovich musical Society played the role in the modern Composers of Ukraine National Union. Indeed, the existence of the Society provided an opportunity to consider more deeply talented composing and performing arts, educational and outreach activities that significantly affected the formation of social, intellectual and cultural growth of the Ukrainian nation as a whole.

Cultural activity of Boris Nikolayevich Lyatoshynskiy in the M.Leontovich Music Society deserves attention not only as a complement to its artistic heritage, but as artistic-aesthetic and ethical position of the creative elite of a bygone era. In his activities Boris Lyatoshynskiy covers and strives to solve a wide range of issues including in particular, provided by him a great practical role of cinema in popular music education, awarding state of outstanding Soviet composers, preparation of special movie expedition for the collection and study of folk song and dance work – from distant musical past to the contemporary achievements of Soviet culture.