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FROM EXPRESSIONISM TO “GENIUS SIMPLICITY”: ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE SLOW PARTS IN BARTOK’S WORKS

Andreeva E.S. 1
1 Saratov state Conservatory (academy) named after L.V. Sobinov
The analysis of the slow parts of multi-movement instrumental compositions of Bela Bartok (three last String quartets, Music for strings, percussion and celesta, Divertimento, Concerto for Orchestra and the 3rd Piano Concerto) in the context of the General evolution of the composer’s style. Traces the way of gradual transformation (transfiguration) Bartok’s «Night music» as stylistic emblem of slow parts, beginning with early works with bright expressionist coloring this figurative sphere, finishing last opuses, which significantly enlightenment «Night music». The analysis of the Night’s semantics in the Opera «Bluebeard›s Castle» is included in the General context. It is an illustration of expressionist interpretation of this imagery in the early period of composer’s creative life. Evolutionary path of considered lyricsubjective sphere can be described as the way of merging the microcosm to the macrocosm, the transformation of the «subjective I» in «I, as a part of nature» or, in other words, from expressionism to «genius simplicity».