Open Access“Dear My and Great Pyotr Ilyich!” (about the Correspondence of Alexander Ilyich Ziloti with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Author(s) -
Светлана Владимировна Горобец
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
obŝestvo: filosofiâ, istoriâ, kulʹtura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2223-6449
pISSN - 2221-2787
DOI - 10.24158/fik.2020.12.22
Subject(s) - friendship , period (music) , musical , trace (psycholinguistics) , literature , history , art , classics , art history , psychology , philosophy , aesthetics , linguistics , social psychology
The present study is based on the materials of cor-respondence between the pianist and conductor A.I. Ziloti and his teacher P.I. Tchaikovsky in the period from 1886 till 1893. The last letter was sent by the great composer a month before his death. Through-out his life, Ziloti was a propagandist of Pyotr Ilyich’s works and one of the best editors and proof-readers of his works. The study reveals little-known facts about the life and creative activities of out-standing musicians Alexander Ilyich Ziloti and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The letters trace the features of the relationship between two talented individuals who were congenial souls. The epistolary legacy was a testament to their fruitful friendship, which left a noticeable mark in the history of Russian mu-sical culture at the turn of 19th and 20th centuries. The correspondence between A.I. Ziloti and P.I. Tchaikovsky can be called a document of the epoch, reflecting in detail the specifics of its musical life and creative process. The study is dedicated to two memorable dates – the 180th anniversary of Tchai-kovsky’s birth and the 75th anniversary of Ziloti’s death.