"khachaturian" - 1 õppematerjal

ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.

Party officials took a dogmatic attitude towards the new developments in Soviet music, which were tied to the Communist Party resolutions of 1948 that clearly expressed 1 Epp Kaidu, Eesti kunstilisest filmist, Eesti Nõukogude Teater II (Estonian Feature Film: The Estonian Soviet Theatre II), (Tallinn, 1956) 193. complete ignorance in professional matters. The leaders in Moscow condemned outstanding Soviet composers, among them Dmitri Shostakovich, Aram Khachaturian and Nikolai Miaskovsky, accusing them of being formalist and in some cases public enemies. The symphonic music was compelled to utilise well-known revolutionary songs and simplify the idiom to cater for the “common man”. There is no need to label all the works of this period as valueless; many had artistic qualities due to the composers’ inner creative impulses in defiance of a too often alien ideology. The older masters Artur Kapp and Heino Eller had developed their own