In the thesis in the context of culturological and art history personology approaches regarding the identification and characteristics of personal determinants of the creative individuality of masters are developed; the importance of cultural loci in the formation of the master’s creative personality is shown; the personal determinants of V. Kosenko’s creative individuality are identified: introversion and existentialism, rational intellectualism and moderate innovation as a type of artistic thinking, symbolism as an intentional dominant, symbolistically oriented post-romanticism and romanticized neoclassicism as the leading style guidelines; the musical works of V. Kosenko of the Zhytomyr period in the context of the manifestation of the personal determinants of the master’s creative individuality at the content and musical-style levels are characterized. Deepened and expanded is the understanding of the ways of development of Ukrainian modernism. Improved is the technique of analyzing musical works from the standpoint of identifying features of the master’s individual handwriting at the content, semantic and stylistic levels. The following issues were further developed the significance of individual loci as cultural-creative units in the process of the formation of national culture; the place of Zhytomyr as a cultural center in the development of Ukrainian musical culture of the 20th century; the significance of V. Kosenko’s creativity in the formation of the musical canon of Ukrainian modernism.
The work uses an interdisciplinary strategy with the involvement of the methodology developed in biography, personology, cultural and art history regionalistics, due to which approaches have been developed regarding the identification and characteristics of personal determinants of the creative individuality of a person-master. Among the most important determinants that form the creative individuality, have been distinguished: 1) the era in which the master worked, and the generation to which he belonged; 2) the features of the deployment of his life scenario; 3) the correlation of extraversion and introversion vectors in the master’s activity complex; 4) manifestation of creative individuality through musical style, genre priorities and appeal to the most important cultural symbols, signs, codes, archetypes, existentials; 5) locus as a cultural space in which the master’s life scenario takes place.
The personal determinants of V. Kosenko as a composer were formed in Zhytomyr, where, thanks to a high level of cultural life, he had ample opportunities for versatile self-realization as a musician, and his isolation from cultural centers allowed him to focus on creating an individual composer style. In the Zhytomyr period, V. Kosenko’s worldview and composer personality were formed, which is characterized by introversion and existentiality, rational intellectualism and moderate innovation as a type of artistic thinking, symbolism as an intentional dominant, symbolistically oriented post-romanticism and romanticized neoclassicism as the leading stylistic guidelines.
The landmark and constant in the process of the composer’s stylistic evolution was the music of the era of romanticism, which most fully corresponded to the internal introverted determinants of his personality, thanks to which continuity was preserved in the process of V. Kosenko’s transition from one style dominant to another. Neoclassical tendencies became a manifestation of a change in the vector in the master’s creative-activity complex and showed a movement towards the objectification of musical images. In the best neoclassical works of V. Kosenko, his personal interverted determinants were organically combined with the objectivity of a musical language oriented towards ancient musical styles. The personal determinants of V. Kosenko’s creative individuality are also revealed in the presence of the most important cultural symbols, archetypes, existentials in his music.
