СONTRIBUTION OF ODESSA COMPOSERS E. MACKAVEYSKY, S. ORFEEV, S. SHUSTOV TO THE MUSIC OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to highlight in the work of famous Odessa artists, representatives of the South of Ukraine, their awareness of the connections with the Orthodox Church, which determined the essential features of their creative activity as in writing works specifically for church use, and outwardly secular, but imbued with the height of spiritual abstraction, correlated with the Orthodox virtues of human Deification. The methodological basis of the study is hermeneuticcomparative cultural studies in the development of musical Ukrainian studies by I. Ljashenkj and I. Kotlyarevsky, which was continued in the works of D. Androsova, O. Kozarenko, O. Markova, O. Roschenko, L. Shevchenko, V. Shulhina, and other scientists who, in domestic conditions, pave research paths that are correlated with the achievements of J. Baudrillard, Y. Kristeva, and others. The scientific novelty of the work is ensured by the originality of the vision of the creative traditions of Southern Ukraine, Odessa in particular, in line with the direct embodiment here of the Mohylian line of the scholarly Orthodoxy, , which inspires the refined academic traditionalism of the composer’s activity, simultaneously open to both the orthodoxy of church usage and to stylistic responses to the modern avant-garde of the 20th century. and the post-avantgarde tastes of modernity. Conclusions. Mohyla’s traditions of the scholarly Orthodoxy, closed to the aristocratic traditions of Kyivan Rus and the hetman circles of Ukraine, with their Orthodoxy, open to interfaith and interreligious exchange, had a special resonance in the culture of Odessa, which from its foundation formed a single territorial and cultural area with Orthodox Bessarabia-Moldova. The latter is a significant development of Cossack culture, marked the historical milestones of Odessa’s existence. Odessa composers, Greeks by nationality V. Zolotarev, V. Femelidi, closely connected with Orthodox cultural roots, who worked alongside church-Orthodox-minded masters E. Makkaveysky, S. Orfeyev, G. Uspensky, which is continued today by the work of S. Shustov, his like-minded people and students.