Osip Mandelstam
Scriabin and Christianity
Pushkin and Scriabin
1 - two transformations of one sun, two becoming one of the heart. Double death artist is going to the Russian people and ignited the sun above him. They have revealed an example of the cathedral, the Russian's death, had died a full death, how they live full lives, their identity, dying, has expanded to the character of an entire people, and the sun is the heart of the dying has stopped forever at the zenith of suffering and glory.
I want to talk about the death of Scriabin as the highest act of his career. I think his death should not be off the chain of his creative achievements, and regarded as the last final link. With this latest Christian perspective death Scriabin's amazing. It is not only remarkable as a fabulous post-mortem growth of an artist in the eyes of the masses, but also serves as a source of creativity, his theological reason. If the tear covering the death of this creative life, it will flow freely from his reasons - death, lying around, like around its sun, and absorbing its light.
Pushkin was buried at night. Buried secretly. Marble Isaac - a magnificent sarcophagus - and not wait for the sun of the body of the poet. At night, put the sun in the coffin, and in the January cold of the sled runners squeaked, were taken away for burial ashes of a poet.
I remember the picture of Pushkin's funeral to call in your memory the image of the night sun, the image of the late Greek tragedy, Euripides created - a vision of an unhappy Phaedra.
In the fateful hours of cleaning and we offered up a storm over a Scriabin, whose sun-heart burns over us, but - alas! - This is not the sun of redemption, and the sun of guilt. Claiming Scriabin his character in the hour of World War I, Phaedra-Russia ...
... Time can go back: the whole course of modern history, with terrible force that turned away from Christianity to Buddhism and theosophy, testifies to this ...
There is no unity! "Many worlds, all located in areas that God reigns over the god." What it is: nonsense, or the end of Christianity?
Personalities no! "I" - is a transient state, you have a lot of showers and a lot of lives! What it is: nonsense, or the end of Christianity?
No time! Christian summer and numbered at risk, frail from years of our era is lost - the time rushing back from the noise and hiss as obstructions flow - and new Orfeo casts his lyre in the bubbling foam: art is no more ...
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Scriabin next step after Pushkin Russian Hellenism, further regular disclosure of Hellenistic nature of the Russian spirit. Enormous value of Scriabin for Russia and Christianity due to the fact that he - mad Ellen. Through him, Hellas intermarried with Russian dissenters, burneth himself in the tombs. Anyway, to them it is much closer than the western Theosophists. His chiliasm - purely Russian thirst for salvation; antique it is madness, t which he expressed this desire.
... Christian art is always action based on the great idea of redemption. It is infinitely varied in its manifestations, "the imitation of Christ, the eternal return to a single creative act, which started our historical era. Christian art is free. It is in every sense of the word "art for art's sake." No need to even the highest, not clouding his bright inner freedom, for the prototype it, what it imitates, is samoiskuplenie world by Christ. So, not a victim, not redemption in the art, and free and joyful imitation of Christ - that is the cornerstone of Christian aesthetics. Art can not be a victim, because she has already taken place, there can be redemption for the world, along with the artist already redeemed, - what remains? Joyous communion with God as Father would play with children, blind man's buff and hide and seek the spirit! Divine illusion of redemption, which consists in Christian art, explained exactly this game with us Deity, which allows us to wander along the paths of mystery so that we, as from himself attacked the redemption, surviving a catharsis, redemption in art. Christian artists - like the idea of redemption of the freedmen, and not slaves, and not preachers. All our two-thousand-year culture through the wonderful grace of Christianity is forgiveness of the world to freedom for the game, for the spiritual joy, for free "imitation of Christ."
Christianity became incarnate perfectly free attitude toward art, which is neither before him nor after it failed to make any man's religion.
Feeding the art, giving him his flesh, offering him as unshakable metaphysical basis of real facts of redemption, Christianity demanded nothing in return. Therefore, the Christian culture is not in danger of domestic impoverishment. She - is inexhaustible, infinite, since triumphing over time, again and again thickens grace in great clouds, and shed their life's rain. You can not with sufficient force to indicate the fact that his character eternal freshness and neuvyadaemosti European culture must favor of Christianity in relation to art.
Have not yet investigated the field of Christian speakers - the activity of spirit in the arts as a free self-affirmation of the core elements of redemption - in particular music.
In the ancient world of music was considered a destructive element. Greeks were afraid of the flute and the Phrygian mode, considering him a dangerous and seductive, and each new string cittern Terpandru 2 had to win with great difficulty. Distrustful attitude to music as a suspect and a dark element was so strong that the state has taken the music under his wing, declaring it to its monopoly, and the musical mood - a means - and a model for the maintenance of political order, civil harmony - evnomii. Actually pure music Greeks did not know - it belongs entirely to Christianity. Mountain Lake Christian music defended after a profound revolution that transformed Hellas in Europe.
Christian music was not afraid. With a smile, says the Christian world to Dionysus: "Well, just try to lead me to break my maenad: I am all - the integrity of the whole - the person, the whole - knit unity" - how strong the new music of this confidence in the final triumph of the individual, whole and intact and she - this belief in personal salvation - I would say, is a Christian music overtone, staining sonority of Beethoven in the Sinai white marble glory.
Voice - a person. Piano - a siren. Gap Scriabin with voice, his great passion for a siren pianism marks the loss of Christian identity feelings, the music, "I am."
Besslovny strangely nemotstvuyuschy chorus Prometheus - still the same seductive siren. Catholic Joy by Beethoven, the synthesis of the Ninth Symphony, this "white glory of triumph," is not available and Scriabin. In this sense, he broke away from Christian music, went his own way ...
Spirit of Greek tragedy woke up in the music. Music made a circle and returned from whence she came: Phaedra again summoning the nurse again Antigone calls for burial, and their drink offerings of inverse nice body. Something happened with the music, some wind broke a raid musikiyskie reeds, dry and sonorous. We demand the choir, we are bored with grumbling thinking reed ... Long, long time we played the music, unaware of the danger that lurks in it, and yet - perhaps out of boredom - we invented a myth that decorate its existence, the music threw us a myth - not fictional, but born, penorozhdenny, bagryanorozhdenny, royal descent, rightful heir to the ancient myths - the myth of Christianity forgotten ...
... Vineyards old Dionysus: I submitted my eyes closed and light, solemn little head, a little thrown back up. This muse recall - easy Mnemosyne, the eldest in the dance. With a light, delicate face falls off the mask of oblivion, clarifies the features, memory triumphs - albeit at the cost of death: dying means to recollect, to remember means to die ... To remember at all costs! Overcome forgetfulness - even if it was worth the death: this is the motto of Scriabin, that's heroic striving of his art! In that sense, I said that the death of Scriabin is a supreme act of his work, he throws on his dazzling and unexpected light ...
The battle is not over - the war in full swing. Anyone who feels the Greeks, and now must be on guard - as two thousand years ago. Peace can not be Hellenize once and for all how to repaint the house. The Christian world - an organism, a living body. Fabric of our world updated death. Struggle with barbarism of a new life, because in her bloom, not conquered death! As long as there is a death in the world, Hellenism b y d e t a creative force, because Christianity elliniziruet death ... Ellinstvo, fertilized with death, and have converted to Christianity. The seed of death, falling on the soil of Hellas, miraculously blossomed: our culture has grown from this seed, we are in chronology from the moment it took the land of Hellas.
All Roman fruitless, because the soil is stony Rome because Rome - Hellas is devoid of grace.
Scriabin's art is directly related to the historical problem of Christianity, which I call the Hellenization of death, and after it gets a deeper meaning ...
It's all there - the music - contains the atoms of our existence. So melody * in a pure form the only consistent sense of identity, such as knew him Hellas, so harmony is characteristic of complex poslehristianskogo feeling 'I'. Harmony was a kind of forbidden fruit for the world, not engaging in the fall. Metaphysical essence of harmony is closely connected with the Christian understanding of time. Harmony - is crystallized forever, it's all in the cross section of time in the context of the time, who knows only Christianity. All mystics vigorously reject eternity in time, taking this cross-sectional view, accessible only by the righteous, saying eternity as the core of the time: Christian eternity - this is the Kantian category, divided by the sword seraph. Center of gravity of Scriabin's music is in harmony: the harmonious architectonic is the music itself.
1915-1919
* Melos (Greek) - the song.
NOTE
1. Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (1871/1872-1915) - a famous Russian composer and pianist, in 1898-1903. - Professor at the Moscow Conservatory, the author of The Divine Poems (Third Symphony), "The Poem of Ecstasy, Prometheus. The article was written under the direct influence of the death of Scriabin, which followed 14 (27) April 1915
2. Terpandr - Ancient Greek poet and singer who accompanied himself on cithara; head lesbian school kifaredov, the earliest (VII century. BC. Er.) From the famous ancient Greek musicians, was born in Antissy on Lesbos.