“Events from the Life of My Father”: The Diary of Yuri Lyapunov (1911–1919)
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https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2024.201Abstract
The name of Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov (1859–1924) is currently attracting particularly close attention of researchers. One of the greatest composers of the turn of the 19th–20th centuries, professor of the St. Petersburg Conservatory Lyapunov survived the post-revolutionary years in Petrograd, was among the defendants in the so-called “Case of the Petrograd Churchmen”, in 1923 went abroad on tour and died a year later in Paris. During the Soviet period, his name was actually deleted from the national history of music. Currently, the life and work of Lyapunov are being actively studied, gaps are being restored. The shortage of factual material is particularly acute. The article introduces into scientific circulation as an integral document one of the most important information sources associated with the name of Lyapunov — the unpublished diary of his eldest son Yuri. The diary covers the period from 1911 to 1919 and is dedicated to his father: it records significant events in the creative life of Lyapunov, the composer’s statements about the art of music and the works of colleagues — both contemporaries and predecessors, about his own work, including unfulfilled plans. The second half of the diary, which includes entries for the years of the First World War and the post-revolutionary period, gives an idea of Lyapunov’s life in the most difficult conditions associated with the historical period. The diary is a document that reveals the features of the composer’s creative thinking, and can become a good basis for compiling a scientific biography of Lyapunov for these years.
Keywords:
S. M. Lyapunov, Yu. Lyapunov, M. A. Balakirev, A. A. Kasyanov, diary, biography, St. Petersburg Conservatory, revolutionary years
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