G. Kovalevsky open lecture "Cultural codes in the history of music."

On Wednesday, October 12, at 14.00 in White Hall of Russian Institute for Art History, George Kovalevsky (PhD, research scientist, Music Department, RIAH) will present his peronal open lecture: “Cultural codes in the history of music.”

The lecture-session will be devoted to the most interesting interactions and stylistic fractures, which often occur in the history of music. Opening the typical textbook on the history of music, we can find a chapter dedicated to the works of various composers, which sometimes resembles a general lives system with a long common corridor and a separate room, “inhabited” by a musical geniuses. Meanwhile, it would be better to treat the development of culture as a suite of adjoining halls, among which a “whiff of time breath” has walk. What happened when Mozart first heard the music of Johann Sebastian Bach? And why Johann Christian Bach does not say a word to the improvising with him together eight years old Mozart about his great father?

How do the alternate cultural paradigms change each other and why Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, treating very skepticaly to each other, does not accepted Bach music with a single heart? What is happening in the current academic music and whether it is possible to determine the direction of development of modern musical art?

All interested students and teachers are invited to attend live communication.