Bodina-Diachok V. Author’s dedication as a phenomenon of creative biographies of Ukrainian and Russian composers of Romantic era music (for example, chamber vocal and instrumental music of Glinka, Mussorgsky, Lysenko)

The thesis considers the author’s dedication of piece of art as a phenomenon in culture and phenomenon of creative biography of composer, reveals its nature and evolution of the historical development; analyzes the types of author’s dedications based on their creation, the range of composer’s recipients, their significance in the creative process of composers; investigates features of author’s dedications of Glinka in the context of musical culture in the first half of the XIX century, Mussorgsky – in the art context in the second half of the XIX century and Lysenko – in the context of development of Ukrainian music culture in the second half of the XIX century. Analyzed some samples of music with dedications, investigated interrelation between their character and inscriptions-dedications to them. Analytical material for thesis includes chamber vocal and instrumental works by Glinka, Mussorgsky, M. Lysenko, epistolary and memoirs legacy of composers and their contemporaries.