Conductor Igor Blazhkov – «Apostle of New Music»

Abstract

The present publication is dedicated to our contemporary – the now living well-known Soviet and Ukrainian conductor Igor Ivanovich Blazhkov (b. 1936). The article highlights the personal and creative contacts of a musician with figures of national culture of the second half of the 20th – early 21st centuries, determines the conductor's contribution to the genre and stylistic panorama of performances of modern and early music. The materials are based on research and memoirs of composers, performers and musicologists dedicated to the life and work of Igor Ivanovich Blazhkov, the epistolary heritage of his contemporaries and autobiographical notes and interviews with the conductor.

Keywords

Igor Blazhkov, Boris Tishchenko, conductor's art, new music, contemporary music, early music, «Book of Letters»