"General" and "special" capabilities of E. Korngold: in the context of problem of nature of talent

Abstract

Erich Korngold is an austrian musician of first third of ХХ th century. From the 30th years his name closely relates with history of becoming of the Hollywood cinema, in particular, as one of authors of classic saundtrek. The works of such foreign theorists, as R. Hoffmann, N. Derny, B. Carroll, H. Pollmann, A. Stollberg, M. Feurstein-Prasser and other, and also the articles of T. Dixon, R. Kingston, D. Raksin, D. Thomas, A. Frey but other are devoted to personality of composer. To the phenomenon "talent", to nature of talent, gift, genius the works of many researchers of different generations of both foreign (I. Kant, G. Gegel, F. Galton, Ch. Lombrozo, Z. Freud, but other) and Russian (S. Rubinstein, B. Teplov, O. Zaporozhets, D. Bogoyavlenska but other) and Ukrainian (M. Goncharenko, O. Kulchicka, V. Molyako but other) are devoted, however to the nature of talent of E. Korngold it is not devoted the independent research. Today there are exist lots of sites with information about E. Korngold, works of the composer are sounding, and these facts testifies about the value of music of austrian artist. However any talent is formed by capabilities. To the question of research and analysis of capabilities in the context of nature of talent, as marked already, hundreds of the articles and works are devoted. The figure of E. Korngold offer the wide field for research of coexistence and development of capabilities, that is uttery important for development of modern culturological science and indicates on actuality of selected theme. Not staying too long on the question of classification of capabilities, we will mark only, that, right after soviet researchers (K. Marks, B. Teplov, S. Rubinstein but other), modern authors (O. Kulchicka, V. Molyako V. Chudnovskiy but other) distribute capabilities on "general" and "special".Separate interest in general and for our research in particular has a question, so to say, coexistence of different capabilities. Studying this question, we found confirmation of our thesis. Thus, V. Drankov insists, that at diagnostic of talent, researchers were not limited by the appraisal of possibilities only of the "special" capabilities, but also took into account a level and potential of "general" capabilities. Lighting up the mechanism of interaction of capabilities in the structure of talent, a researcher asserts that just "multilateral development of talent in a few types of art creates the most auspicious conditions for creation of his creative possibilities" [2, с. 139]. And as a result of development of additional capabilities both, "general" and "special" capabilities acquire many-sided creative signs.