LATE ROMANTIC SCHOENBERG: THE DOWNFALL OF AN ERA OR THE BIRTH OF A NEW ONE?
The article is devoted to one of the early works of A. Schoenberg - the symphonic poem “Pelleas and Melisande”. Despite the high degree of study of Schoenberg’s work as a whole, this work rarely becomes the object of attention of researchers and is mentioned only as “continuing the trend”. However, the composer himself noted the importance of this composition in his creative evolution. The artistic and musical identity of the symphonic poem is due to its duality: on the one hand, the musical language of the composition corresponds to the final stage of late Romanticism, on the other hand, it outlines the transition of Arnold Schoenberg to a new compositional technique. The article emphasizes that bringing the musical and expressive means of romanticism to the limit, demonstrating their exhaustion, at the same time turns into the opening prospects of a new musical language of the ХХ century.