Научная статья
doi: https://doi.org/10.26156/operamus.2024.16.1.009
«Вследствие расстроенного здоровья и по художественным надобностям».
Из переписки Прокофьева в архиве Колумбийского университета
Автор: Наталия Павловна Савкина
Московская государственная консерватория имени П. И. Чайковского, Москва, Россия
nsavkina@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8208-1454
Аннотация
Ключевые слова: Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев, Анатолий Васильевич Луначарский, Павел Коханьский, Александр Кириллович Боровский, Йожеф Сигети, Александр Ильич Зилоти, Николай Дмитриевич Набоков, Лев Моисеевич Цейтлин, Рейнгольд Морицевич Глиэр, Василий Иванович Шухаев, Владимир Владимирович Держановский, Альфредо Казелла
Благодарности: Автор выражает свою сердечную благодарность Сергею Святославовичу Прокофьеву за разрешение публиковать архивные документы.
Для цитирования: Савкина Н. П. «Вследствие расстроенного здоровья и по художественным надобностям». Из переписки Прокофьева в архиве Колумбийского университета // Opera musicologica. 2024. Т. 16. № 1. С. 170–207. https://doi.org/10.26156/operamus.2024.16.1.009
Статья поступила в редакцию: 15.05.2023; одобрена после рецензирования: 27.06.2023; принята к публикации: 15.01.2024; опубликована: 25.03.2024.
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Original article
“Due to Poor Health and for Artistic Necessity”.
From Prokofiev`s Correspondence Archived at Columbia University
Author: Natalia P. Savkina
Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, Moscow, Russia
nsavkina@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8208-1454
Abstract
Prokofiev’s letters included in this publication are archived in SPA, Columbia University, New York City. They contain new information about the culture scene of Europe and the USSR in the 1920-s and early 1930-s, about the people Prokofiev maintained correspondence with, and about the composer himself, the encounter of these two distinct worlds adding value to this collection. The facts provided in these letters include a lot of previously unknown information. For example, V.V. Derzhanovsky writes about the events that preceded disbanding of the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians (RAPM) and other unions. In 1928, just as the year before, Prokofiev expresses his worries about free exit from the USSR and his concern about his former lady-housekeeper who served his family in Sontsovka. In these letters we can read about birth of his younger son Oleg, about the streak of misfortune for the Nabokovs, about the Shukhayevs' careless return to the USSR, which was to become a tragic mistake for the artist and his wife. The letters suggest many significant aspects for the study of Prokofiev’s personality, which manifests itslef differently in communication with different people. They reveal his universal trait - the ability to focus entirely on the central things and dismiss all trivia by concentrating on the essentials. His businesslike tone, concise immaculate language, constant readiness for sudden ironical twists of thought, and his trademark sarcasms make Prokofiev's letters a manifestation of his gift.
Keywords: Sergei Prokofiev, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Paweł Kochański, Alexander Borovsky, József Szigeti, Alexander Siloti, Nicolas Nabokov, Lev Tseitlin, Reinhold Glière, Vasily Shukhaev, Vladimir Derzhanovsky, Alfredo Casella
Acknowledgments: the author expresses her gratitude to Larisa A. Miller, Head of the Research Department of Manuscripts of the Scientific Music Library of the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory, for the assistance provided in attributing the notebook found in the collection of Mitrofan P. Belyayev
For citation: Savkina, Natalia P. “Due to Poor Health and for Artistic Necessity”. From Prokofiev’s Correspondence Archived at Columbia University. Opera musicologica. 2024. Vol. 16, no. 1. Р. 170–207. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.26156/operamus.2024.16.1.009
The article was submitted: 15.05.2023; approved after reviewing: 27.06.2023; accepted for accepted for publication: 15.01.2024; published: 25.03.2024.
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