Savytska N. Age Aspects of Composer Life and Creative Work

Dissertation thesis is dedicated to all-round consideration of composer personality in the aspect of influence of age dynamics upon the evolutionary process, nature and measure of intensity of manifestation of creative function at the background of change of age phases and their mental descriptions. Importance of age universalism as a polyfunctional principle of human life articulation, reflecting the process of development from birth to death, which acts as one of criteria of psychophysical, spiritual and professional maturity of an artist has been proved. Quite an extensive inter-disciplinary discourse, which unites philosophical-anthropologic, culturological, psychological and biographical blocks has been actualized. Biographical, age and evolutionary-stylistic criteria of periodization of life and creative work have been considered, prerequisites and motivation complex of spiritual-creative crises and unfinished works have been considered. As a result of systematization of significant empirical material, the notion of biographical scenario has been involved in musicological circulation for the first time; its varieties: crescendo, extinction, intermittent have been differentiated on the examples of life and creative fortunes of European composers of the above chronological periods. Late evolutionary period has been divided into types as prognostic, consolidating and reduced according to the course and measure of novelty.