To the question of the national-style determinants of Stefan Turchak’s art

Abstract

The objective of this paper is caused by the actual problem of comprehension the Stefan Turchak creative style as a phenomenon of national cultural scale through the identification and comparison of the individual-style dominant and the typical national-style determinants of the conductor's art. To achieve the goal the semantic field of the essential characteristics of the Ukrainian national character is considered, the scientific idea of the main intonational idea of the conductor's style is formed, the peculiarities of the individual-style approach of the performer, coherent with the Ukrainian national constants are analyzed on the example of the interpretation of the J. Brahms  The First Symphony c-moll.  The research method is combination of cultural and musicological methods which allows to form a coherent picture of Turchak's arts phenomenon.  The scientific novelty of the work is in the deepening understanding of the interaction of individually stylistic and national-style factors in the formation of the phenomenon S. Turchak’s conductor art and creating theoretical basis of his works style analysis. Conclusions. On the basis of the interpretation analysis of J. Brahms the First Symphony  done by S. Turchak,  the main intonation idea of his performing  style, which described as the transforming reality of emotionalism, was conceptualized as the conclusion. According to S. Turchak the originality of the interpretation Brahms’ style is defined as the individual-style dominant of his art (subjective factor) and Ukrainian national-style determinants (objective factor). It is known that individual style and national style in music (and in the art as a whole) are the most genetically related.  It can be argued that the nationally determined specificity of  S. Turchak’s worldview provides an honorable place to his original interpretative concepts in the process of forming the world music culture text of global scale which is still going on.