PODIL MOTIFS IN MYKOLA LASTOVETSKY’S COMPOSING CREATIVITY

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to examine the place of the imaginative and thematic sphere related to Podillia in the creativity of the modern Ukrainian composer Mykola Lastovetskyi (*1947). The research focuses on a complex methodological approach, with an emphasis on analytical, musicological, comparative and biographical methods. The chosen topic is of particular interest due to the fact that the artist, being a native of Podillia – the city of Dunaivtsi, Khmelnytskyi region, has been living in another region for almost fifty years, in the city of Drohobych, Lviv region. It is emphasized that the composer’s creativity includes works related to Boykivshchyna and Boyky themes, as well as to Podillia. It was established that a significant influence on the development of M. Lastovetsky’s personality had Mykola Mahera (1922–2008) – a famous Ukrainian writer and poet, the brother of the composer’s mother Nina Mahera, who lived in Khmelnytskyi. It has been established that «Podillia motifs» are present in the following genres of M. Lastovetskyi’s creativity: symphonic (prelude «The Legend about Karmaliuk» (1969, second edition 1999, third edition 2024)), piano («Podilskyi dance», «Lullaby from Podillia» from the first collection of piano pieces for children and youth; «On Native Spaces», «Song of the Traveler», «Podilskyі Roundabout», «Eager Cossack (Scherzo)», «Folk Chant», «Folk Paraphrase», «Handzia (Podilskyі Etude)», «Polyphonic Prelude», «Treasured Dream», «Evening Landscape», «Little Nocturne» from the cycle «Musical horizons» from the third collection of piano pieces for children and youth), choral (Choir Concert No. 4 (twelve preludes and fugue) «I believe, my Motherland!» for a cappella mixed choir (2024) to the words by M. Mahera) etc. Podillia and Boyky folklore, its intonation, metro-rhythmic and compositional features were creatively rethought by M. Lastovetskyi in various spheres of creativity, which gives reason to consider his works in the direction of neo-folklorism.