Alexey Remizov: Teacher and His Pupils (On the History of the Meaning of Music Teacher in the Context of Modern Art of the 20th Century)

The image of “Music teacher” and its semantic meanings. The object of the research is the semantic image of “music teacher” in the title of the famous novel by A. M. Remizov as a manifestation of the latent theme of continuity of generations in the environment of creative emigration. Music in this semantic field is a universal language uniting tradition, culture and modernity. 2. On the creation of two “musical” episodes. Based on the unknown letters of the musician and conductor N. L. Slonimsky, who belonged to the Parisian group of Remisov’s pupils, the article discovers the real subtexts of two stories devoted to the avant-garde music innovation and some experiments of the early 1930s within the novel. 2.1. Remizov and Varèse: on the typology of creative search. Author compares Remizov's intentions in transforming the form of autobiographical prose with the creative vector of composer Edgar Varèse and reveals similar features of modern culture. 2.2. Literary lesson for a professional musician. The image of Slonimsky in the structure of the novel Music teacher is related to the objectification of the equal force vector which defines similar tasks for literature and music art. The important conclusion of the article is an explanation of the significance of Alexander Blok’s image among denotatives of “music teacher” as an ideal creator able to perceive the historical time and culture by “inner hearing”.