Volyk O. Poetics of Chopin's etudes: musicological and performance interpretation

The dissertation is aimed at revealing the specific features of the poetics of F. Chopin's Etudes and its reflection in musicological and performance interpretations. The thesis is aimed at reveal of specific traits of poetics of F. Chopin's Etudes and its reflection in musicologists' and performers' interpretations. It is stated, that having appeared in Romantic era, piano etude reflected its typological and historical attributes. Its emergence, crystallization of genre, rapid development are inseparable from comprehension of new sonic realm, born by specific features of the instrument itself, the piano. Having received its absolute as an instructive etude, later it turned into artistically valuable piece, retaining its primary function – improvement of player’s technical skills. It is stressed, that it was F. Chopin who was a progenitor of this kind of Etudes. To prove this point, a wide range of issues is outlined, including the problems of interaction of the pianist's and composer's principles in F. Chopin's mentality; patterns of the historical role of the Polish romantic in the creation of an artistic etude; identifying the typological properties of this genre variant and their individual refraction in the composer's works; ways of transforming technical, piano techniques into artistic reality; evaluation criteria of performance interpretations of F. Chopin's Etudes and their application to the corpus of the interpreted opuses under study.