VOCAL WORKS OF FRANZ SCHUBERT AND THEIR NEW LIFE IN TRANSCRIPTIONS BY FERENCE LIZST

Abstract

The article carries out a musicological study of Franz Liszt’s piano transcriptions of Franz Schubert’s songs in the direction of historical and semantic substantiation of their significance for modern performing practice. The aim of the article is to identify the principles of interaction of two musical texts – the original vocal work and the instrumental invariant from the standpoint of an individual approach to the primary source in its transcription. The role of Liszt’s textural solutions is revealed, as a result of which the vocal line of the original is preserved, which provides an opportunity for accompanists to practice when preparing these works with vocalists, and also becomes an important element on the path to interpreting the instrumental transcription itself. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that a musicological analysis of Franz Liszt’s transcriptions for piano solo of Franz Schubert’s vocal works has been carried out in the perspective of the specificity of pianistic interpretative tasks. For the analysis, methods based on knowledge in the field of texture theory, interpretology, and musical creativity were used, among others. It was determined that the specificity of Liszt's piano text is oriented towards a high professional level of pianistic training, but with the provision of easier performance options in the musical score, taking into account the individual abilities of the performer. The main factors of Liszt's musical thinking are characterized, which are aimed at playing in which it is necessary to plastically approach the ratio of the vocal line to the accompaniment. It is noted that the holistic embodiment of the musical image and psychological drama of Schubert's songs in Liszt's transcription for solo piano extends to the pianist's mastery of complex hand coordination and all small finger movements, changing different types of piano technique with the study of the original and identifying differences between it and this transcription.