Patlayenko E. Wreath of Sonnets. For piano

Eduard Patlaenko (born in 1936) works and lives in Karelia, where came after the end of composer’s faculty of the Leningrad Conservatory. He is the author of the works in different genres, including ballet “Hiawatha”, four symphonies, Concert for the orchestra, symphony-cantata “Kanteletar”, oratorio symphony “Russia and the sword”, and various chamber and vocal works.

Being a passionate bibliophile, Patlaenko was particularly interested in the relationship of music and literature. The musical history knows examples of synthesis of the arts. In association with the literary genres composers of the past wrote a musical poems (primarily Liszt), ballads (Chopin), novelettes (Schumann), tales (Metner). The writers, on the contrary, sought to rely on in their literary works on the principles developed in the music (“Symphonies” by A. Bely), the artists created pictorial sonatas and fugues (iurlionis). New musical forms by Patlaenko — a sonnet and a wreath of sonnets — built according to the laws of poetic forms. Calling his compositions sonnets, the composer has in mind not possible program parallels, but mainly the principle of formation. Musical “rhymes” are formed similar with poetic rhymes, as the general composition shows the similarity with the structure of the poetic sonnet (in this edition you can see the comments of the composer, how to write these forms).

Besides the “Wreath of Sonnets” for piano (Op. 56, 2004) (if to speak about the same genres of music in his creativity) — Patlaenko composed “The Wreath of Sonnets” for the gothic harp and harp Erard (Op. 47, 1995), also there is an author version of this music for violin and harp. The form of the wreath of sonnets used in the second part of the Fifth String Quartet (Op. 50, 1998). Musical sonnets included in the cycles of the two “School Albums”: for clarinet and piano (Op. 53, 2000) and for piano (Op. 55, 2004).

I. N. Baranova,
Doctor of Arts, Professor

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