Russian Creativity Decoded
An article over at the Moscow Times discusses the fascinating topic of the creative foundations of some of Russia’s most notable composers and cultural icons. Caryl Emerson reports on a book entitled Five Operas and a Symphony by Boris Gasparov that explores Russian musical culture through “culturology - a speculative human science anchored firmly in empirical data and unburdened by strident politics”. Using this discipline as its base the book attempts to correlate common themes of Russian culture to unmask a hidden code of creativity.
The book includes analysis of Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmilla (1842), Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov (1871) and Khovanshchina (1881), Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (1878) and The Queen of Spades (1890), and Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony (1934).
Read more about the Discipline of Culturology
[From: The Moscow Times]
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