Тhе incarnation of nostalgia in the piano cycle «Love» by V. Barvinsky

The features of nostalgia in the piano loop «Love» by V. Barvinsky areconsidered. Attention is drawn to the peculiarities of the composer's style indifferent periods of creativity. In particular, the influence of modernism onthe work of V. Barvinsky stands out. So modernist features have appeared inmany of the works of the composer: Prelude h-moll, Part II from the cycle«Love», «Prelude» from «Suits to Ukrainian folk themes», «The Frog Waltz»,«Preludes of the e-moll», «Fis-dur, Cis-dur», «Trio a-moll», solos «In theforest», romances «Oi luli, luli», «In the evening in the house», Sonnet«Blessing be», «Pastoral prelude to fis-moll», «Youth Quartet», «F-mollPiano Concert», romance «Moon-Prince», «In the Forest», «Oh Fields,Fields», etc. Also available for V. Barvinsky's creative method is the use ofdialogue and polylogue, a kind of semantic game that manifested itself inallusions to M. Lysenko, R. Wagner, J. Puccini, K. Debussy, M. Ravel, andothers like that. In addition, it refers to nostalgia as one of the characteristicfeatures of modernism, which was particularly manifested in the art of thelate XIX - early XX centuries. In music, nostalgia can be called appeals topast styles and epochs, including baroque and classicism. Thus, neo-baroqueand neoclassical features are observed by composers I. Stravinsky,P. Hindemit, M. Ravel, J. Roger-Dyukas, G. Fore, D. Miyou, A. Onneger, inUkrainian music - M. Lysenko, K. Stetsenko. Also, the article focuses on thespecial discovery of nostalgia in the era of the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. It turns out that for this period nostalgia was a characteristic feature thatmanifested itself as one of the factors of rethinking being. In particular,nostalgia was expressed in the piano cycle «Love» by V. Barvinsky as anxiousfor his homeland, the bride, grief for lost during the First World War, and soon.