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Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of
Mtsensk
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1 Soviet policies on music and the young Shostakovich 2 Leskov
3 The Event and its aftermath 4 Lyricism and the grotesque
5 Sex and feminism
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1 Soviet policies on music and the young Shostakovich
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Chronology• 1917 February and October Revolutions//Shostakovich is 11
• 1918-1921 Civil War, Agitprop, avant-garde//Shostakovich at the Conservatoire
• 1921-1927 The NEP, stability//Shostakovich’s First and Second Symphonies
• 1928-1932 The First Five-Year Plan//Shostakovich’s opera The Nose and the ballets
• 1932-1936 Socialist Realism//Shostakovich’s conservative turn
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Shostakovich’s Second Symphony “To October” (1927)
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Avant-garde in The Nose
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The Bolt
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Kazimir Malevich – The Union (1930)
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Shostakovich playing his First Piano Concerto
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Policies on Culture • 1918: nationalisation, preservation of old institutions, idea of Proletarian
Culture, avant-garde put to use for agitation and propaganda
• 1924-27 private initiative; government has almost no control over culture beyond basic censorship; popular art forms; free exchange with abroad
• 1928-1931 radical “proletarian” groups win out, ideological dictate and cultural austerity - but only partially supported by the government
• 1932 cultural factions disbanded; government takes control; “creative unions” formed
• 1934 the aesthetic doctrine of Socialist Realism promulgated
• 1936 new ministry formed to oversee culture; full ideological control established
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2 Leskov
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Nikolai Leskov (1831-1895)
journalist and writer son of a detective
desk job at a criminal court often used real-life events in his fiction
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Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1864)
Ironic title Presented as a “feature story” for a newspaper Dispassionate towards the events Sarcastic epigraph: one blushes when singing the first song A strong woman oppressed by her lack of power and by boredom The motivation for Katerina’s behaviour is her awakened passion
“a lightning born of the dark, making still more vivid the impenetrable darkness of a merchants’ life” Four murders and a suicide
Ironic title Presented as a “feature story” for a newspaper Dispassionate towards the events Sarcastic epigraph: one blushes when singing the first song A strong woman oppressed by her lack of power and by boredom The motivation for Katerina’s behaviour is her awakened passion Four murders and a suicide
“a lightning born of the dark, making still more vivid the impenetrable darkness of a merchant’s life” ( a Soviet critic)
“Katerina Lvovna was now prepared to go into the fire, into the water, to prison and onto the cross for Sergei. He made her love him so that there was no limit to her loyalty.”
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He removed the murder of a child who is an heir to her husband’s property He makes her remaining murders unpremeditated
He provides her with a “feminist” scene He heightens the element of social critique in the spirit of “class war”
He seeks to win our support for her through the vivid representation of her emotional life in the music
Shostakovich’s changes
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The merry priest
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3 The Event and its aftermath
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• 26 Jan 1936 Stalin comes to see the opera
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• 26 Jan 1936 Stalin comes to see the opera
• 28 Jan 1936 Sharply critical unsigned article in Pravda
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From the opera’s first moments, the astonished listener is assaulted by a stream of sounds that is – by design – inharmonious and chaotic. Snatches of melody and embryonic musical phrases are drowned, surface a final time, then finally disappear back into the general din of screeching and
screaming. Such music is hard to follow and quite impossible to memorize.
At a time when the touchstone of our criticism is socialist realism – and this certainly includes music criticism – Shostakovich’s opera puts the coarsest naturalism on stage. Monotonously, all
characters are presented in their most bestial colours – merchants and people alike. The predatory merchant’s wife, whose path to money and power was paved with the corpses of her victims, is here presented as somehow a “victim” of bourgeois society. Leskov’s novel of everyday life [on which the opera is based] is here encumbered with meanings wholly absent from the original.
And how coarse, primitive and vulgar all of this is! The music wheezes, groans, pants, and gasps for breath in order to present love scenes as naturalistically as possible. And “love” is smeared all
over the opera in the most vulgar manner. The merchants’ double bed is placed centre stage. And it is on this bed that all the “problems” are solved. Flogging and death by poison are presented in this
same coarsely naturalistic style.
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• 26 Jan 1936 Stalin comes to see the opera
• 28 Jan 1936 Sharply critical unsigned article in Pravda
• 7 Feb 1936 another article, Shostakovich goes to see the culture minister
• multiple discussions follow, Shostakovich stays away and remains silent
• a broad anti-formalism campaign begins in all the arts
• Shostakovich withdraws his Fourth Symphony (Dec 1936)
• writes his Fifth Symphony (premiered Nov 1937)
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4 Lyricism and the grotesque
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Stanislavsky vs Meyerhold
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Katerina’s Russian-style song
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Boris Timofeich: I love mushrooms…
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The Passacaglia
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Climax of Act 4
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Katerina’s Lament
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OLD CONVICT We trudge along day after day, clanging our fetters behind us.
Wearily counting the versts, raising the dust all around us!
CONVICTS Ah, steppes, you are so endless,
days and nights so countless, the thoughts we think so cheerless
and the guards we have so heartless. Ah …
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5 Sex and feminism
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• 1921-1927 The NEP, stability//Shostakovich’s First and Second Symphonies
Act I, Scene 3
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flogging
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Aksinya
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sex scene
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