Creative activity of Isaak Berkovych in the context of the development of ukrainian piano music (to the 120th anniversary of the compositor's birth)

Abstract

The aim of the article is a generalized description of the creative activity of Isaac Yakovlevich Berkovich, a Ukrainian composer and lecturer as well as its impact on the development of piano pedagogy for children. The research methodology is based on an interdisciplinary approach, which expresses the integration of culturological, art history, special-historical, etc., principles and methods; the main principles that determine the author's approach are: 1. the principle of objectivity (from his standpoint, facts from the life and work of the musician (artist) indicate his contribution to the development of culture, music, and pedagogy); 2. the principle of historicity allowed to recreate a real picture of the life and work of I. Berkovich; 3. the principle of comprehensiveness and complexity has taken into account various factors and reasons that allow to comprehensively characterize the contribution of this musician (artist) to the historical and cultural music and pedagogical heritage of Ukrainian culture, considered in the diachronic historical and cultural aspect. The leading role in the presentation of the material is played by the activity-structural method, which allows investigating in detail the creative personality of the pianist-composer-teacher; the method of cultural-historical analysis made it possible to retrospectively highlight the importance of Isaac Berkovych's work in the development of Ukrainian musical and pedagogical culture; methods of biography, source studies, chronological, etc., the method of interviews, implemented as a retrospective analysis of the life and work of a prominent figure of national culture. The scientific novelty of the study is based on the initial use of various sources (archival, interviewing, etc.), which are purely authorial in the context of increasing attention to the importance of the creative work of Isaac Berkovich, Ukrainian composer and teacher, primarily in connection with celebrating the 120th anniversary of the birth of the artist and teacher. The conclusions reflect the contribution of I. Berkovych's personality to the development of Ukrainian music-pedagogical culture, considered both in retrospect and in the light of projective opportunities for the development of national music culture (especially in the music-pedagogical segment) in modern conditions; emphasize the latest nature of the various types of sources used, which allow to fully highlight the creative work of the artist and the author's experience of communicating with his colleagues and students.

Key words: creative activity of Isaac Yakovlevich Berkovich, music, music culture, age pedagogy, history of the music culture of Ukraine