THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE ARTIST IN THE MUSICAL CULTURE OF CHINA IN THE 20TH AND EARLY 21ST CENTURIES

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of typological aspects of the universalism of Chinese musicians in the context of their activity and creative self-realization, carried out in the process of a summary analysis of the specificity of the musical art of China of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Based on the musicological works of Chinese and Ukrainian researchers and the works of French and Swiss psychologists and philosophers, the concept of universality of the creative personality is defined. The article examines the specificity of the components of the creative activity of the first most prominent universal figures of China of the 20th century, traces the directions of their creative realization. Among the figures, selected for this article, chronological primacy belongs to the organizer of professional music education in China, composer and pedagogue Xiao Youmei. Among the successors are professor of piano art Zhou Guang Ren, composer Ding Shande, Ma Sicong is undoubtedly recognized as the first universal figure in the field of violin art, Qiao Yui and Yan Su in vocal art. A constellation of young universal personalities whose activities are related to the period of the beginning of the 21st century have been studied and highlighted: saxophonist Li Yusheng, choral conductor Zhou Sheng, composers Liu Suola, Qian Lei, Lu Yangwei, Fan Wengshang, Wang Zhixin. It was found out that in addition to their main professional activities as composers and pedagogues, each of them expanded their field of activity as much as possible and received the highest recognition in the fields of performing arts, producing, directing, social and cultural activities, and administrative work. The importance of their versatile achievements in the context of the general development of the musical culture of China is emphasized. In addition, the issue of the universal figures of artists is considered in terms of the universality of acting skills, gender specificity of creativity, the local significance of their compositional professionalism in the interpretation of the category of "conceptosphere". The importance of multi-vector factors of the education acquired, influences of intercultural communication and international relations with the West in the formation of universal personalities is summarized.