THE UNION OF COMPOSERS OF KARELIA AND ITS CHAIRMAN HELMER SINISALO (on the 100th anniversary of the birth of the composer)
The article covers the work of Helmer-Rayner Nestorovich Sinisalo (1920-1989) as the chairman of the Union of Composers of Karelia (Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). The article examines Sinisalo’s “involvement” in the issues of the state cultural policy of the USSR, the style of the leadership of the Union. The author of the article reveals specific composer’s techniques noted by Sinisalo in publications, speeches, reports, which to a different extent are “associated” with the implementation of the ethnic origin in music. They deal both with the use of the means of the musical language and the primary material - borrowed melodic sources. The question is raised about the number of the members of the Union of Composers of Karelia during the years of Sinisalo’s leadership. The article was written to the centenary of the birth of composer.