THE INFLUENCE OF WESTERN EUROPEAN PIANO MUSIC ON THE XIX CENTURY RUSSIAN SYMPHONIC SCORES WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF THE PIANO
The article is devoted to the little-studied problem of the influence of Western piano music on the orchestral compositions of Russian composers. The influence of such figures as Mozart, Liszt, Chopin was analyzed in detail on the example of three scores: the opera «Mozart and Salieri» by N. Rimsky-Korsakov, the ballet «Raymonda» by A. Glazunov and the Symphony suite by A. Arensky. In all the three cases the influence led to the inclusion of the piano in the orchestra. The piano appears in 19th-century scores rather seldom, and it never appears for nothing. Its inclusion is always conditioned by specific musical and dramatic reasons. Turning to the masterpieces of Western European piano music was one of them. In the compositions considered a piano part is rich, detailed, and contains stylistic features of the piano works of Mozart, Liszt, and Chopin, respectively. Russian music has few examples of such compositions, but all the three analyzed scores have made a significant contribution to the work of their creators, as well as to the development of such an original phenomenon as the orchestral piano in Russian music.