“You, Mozart, Aren’t Worthy of Yourself”: Aesthetic Discontents of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri

Anna Nisnevich
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This chapter analyzes Rimsky-Korsakov's creative crisis by considering his opera Mozart and Salieri. With Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakov was compelled to interrogate directly—for the first time in his life—the very core of his professional being, and so query the very grounds of composerly worthiness. Indeed, in his Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakov summoned historical styles not to comment on history, but to confront the contemporaneity that appeared increasingly incapacitated by what he'd identified in 1892 as metaphysical excess, but what he was now coming to see as a more widespread ailment, “the indifference of taste”—the loss of familiar experiential connection, of active kinship between life and art. His opera did not just celebrate the creator sympathetically aligned with his environment; it offered an object lesson in the proliferation of sentience.
“你,莫扎特,不配你自己”:里姆斯基-科萨科夫《莫扎特与萨列里》的审美不满
本章以歌剧《莫扎特与萨列里》为切入点,分析了里姆斯基-柯萨科夫的创作危机。面对莫扎特,里姆斯基-科萨科夫被迫直接质问——这是他一生中第一次——他职业生涯的核心,因此他质疑作曲价值的根本依据。事实上,在他的莫扎特中,里姆斯基-科萨科夫召唤历史风格,不是为了评论历史,而是为了面对当代,这种当代似乎越来越无能为力,他在1892年认为这是形而上学的过度,但他现在看到的是一种更普遍的疾病,“品味的冷漠”——失去了熟悉的经验联系,失去了生活与艺术之间积极的亲缘关系。他的歌剧不仅颂扬了创作者与他所处的环境和谐一致;它为感知能力的扩散提供了一堂实物课。
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