PIANO MUSIC BY GALINA USTVOLSKAYA, OR LADY WITH A HAMMER

Abstract

The article is a survey of piano creation by Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya, one of the most mysterious figures in Russian music of the twentieth century. The uniqueness of her piano style is in the apology of the hammering that the composer understands literally and maximize in the last piano sonatas: Fifth (1986) and Sixth (1988), where the principle of accent every sound in the strict sense makes a fetish. At the same time Ustvolskaya demonstrates very wide amplitude of the hammering as the method: from single intense, extremely collected sounds-knocks up to furiously strike on by clusters, which diversity is amazing.

Keywords

• galina ustvolskaya
• composer
• piano
• percussion
• composition