Instrumental ballad biography

In the ballads of Chopin, on the one hand, in touch with romantic aesthetics, on the other hand, on the other, is an individual, “Chopinov” beginning, which is somewhat compeling his work from the general aspirations of Western European romantics. The ballad genre - both literary and musical - blossomed on romantic grounds. This ancient form of the art of the ballad formed in the era of the Renaissance and developed both in the court and in the folk environment.

In the 16th century, there was a sharp demarcation of the court and folk ballad. The first, called Ballade, reached its highest point in France, experiencing the influence of humanistic classical culture. For the art of classicism, the Ballad genre genre is as inconceivable as inconceivable, for example, the court solemn ode in the musical work of the Manfredovsky Age.

The historical path to Chopinovic ballads is as follows. The new generation composers, including Schubert and Leva, used the texts of their poems for their vocal works, thereby creating the genre of musical ballad. Unlike the song, aria, romance, the development of thematic material in the ballad, the plot was completely obeyed. The plots of Ballad, as a rule, were saturated with dramatic episodes and gravitors to an unexpected fatal denouement at the end.

Hence the drama of the ballad, sharply thickening at the very end of the work. For the Poles of Chopin, the Ballad genre was of particular importance. In the Polish literature of the 19th century, the ballad blossomed as an exponent of popular patriotic moods. On the ballads of Nemtsevich published under the name “Historical Songs”, a whole generation of revolutionary-patriotic Poles grew up.

In Balidna, the revolutionary romanticism of Adam Mitskevich also showed himself to a large extent. There are a number of guesses and versions according to which the first ballad G-Moll OP. Already this confusion indicates how free the music of Chopenovskiy Ballad is from certain literary and surgery. Creating his piano ballads only 4, Chopin walked along a different path.

The influence of the “ballad” style affects both the type of theme and some developmental features. It is extremely interesting how Chopin is refracted by a typical merger for the ballad in the denial of the real with the unearthly. In none of them there is a actually sonata form. At the same time, the ballad is characterized by symphonic monolithic forms and a classic tendency to final reproduction.

They mark respectively and a new level in the development of pianistic technology.

The sound power and multi -color of the timbre palette, which are required from the performer of the ballad, did not have precedents. Coven the ballad is one of the favorite genres of romantic art. In attention to him, the interest of romantic composers in the historical past, reflected in ancient traditions and legends, captured in epic poetry. In musical art, the ballad first received a classic expression among Schubert in the vocal work of the Forest Tsar.

The creation of a tool ballad belongs to Chopin. Later in this genre, a sheet, Brams, Grieg and other composers wrote, but Chopin's creations remained an unsurpassed example. Often indicates the connection of the Ballad Chopin with the ballads of Mickevich. Indeed, they have a lot in common: ideological motives, the nature of imagery, national flavor. For all that, to consider the Chopenic ballads as a direct reflection of the poetry of his great compatriot and contemporary means reducing the originality of the design and the generalizing power of these brilliant works.

The dramatic development, revealing a kind of “plot” of each ballad, is so embossed that it does not require any literary program. The internal content of the ballads, their artistic images have all the same, common to the entire work of Chopin, the origins: the thoughts of the native country and its heroes, about its historical past and the tragic fate in the present, that the future promises it.

The ballad genre itself involves the specification of these thoughts in the images of epic, dramatic and lyrical, and their interaction and development determines the “plot” line of each ballad that has its own individual composition.