CHOPIN SOCIETIES AND POLISH CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS IN EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA

Abstract

In the modern multicultural world, there are a number of representatives of musical art, whose work is understood and loved by a huge audience of different countries and continents. Perhaps the most popular among them is the figure of Frederic Chopin. The organization of numerous concerts of his works in many countries, the establishment of numerous music competitions and festivals of various levels of representation, the publication of periodic international musical, educational and scientific publications directly related to the name of the Polish piano poet became possible thanks to the activities of the developed extensive system of Chopin musical associations, united in an international association, Polish cultural societies, Polish friendship societies, etc. However, this phenomenon, which contributed to the involvement of a wide audience in the East and South Asian region in Western musical culture through Chopin’s music, has not yet been studied as a separate important problem. These factors determined the relevance of this article. The purpose – clarifying the significance of the activities of Chopin’s and Polish cultural societies in the countries of East and Southeast Asia in popularizing Chopin’s music and in drawing the attention of a wide audience in this vastly populated region to the invaluable creative heritage of Western composers of the 18th – early 21st centuries. The research methodology is a combination of general scientific (historical, comparative, inductive-deductive, sourcebased) approaches and a number of components of the musicological methodological complex, in particular music-local history, music-performance, music-historical. The scientific novelty lies in the presentation of Chopin societies and Polish cultural organizations in the countries of East and Southeast Asia and the analysis of the impact of their activities on the rapid development of piano performing and listening culture in this vast region in terms of territory and population. Conclusions. The expansion of such public musical and cultural organizations and their active educational, educational and propaganda activities have led to a rapid growth in these countries of fans of classical European music, which confirms the thesis about the globalization of cultural processes that have engulfed the East and Southeast Asian region. And the frantic demand of the listening audience in Asian countries for classical European music has contributed to the emergence in these countries in recent decades of a huge number of bright musicians-performers – representatives of a successful symbiosis of national cultural and Western aesthetic and piano traditions.