“Impromtu phantasie” (1894), Ольга Кобилянська, нарис. Слухаємо українське!

   • Ольга Кобилянська (1863-1942).   Works by Olga Kobylyanska on my channel. Read by Liliya Myronenko. For you, an autobiographical essay "Fantasy - Impromptu" by Olga Kobylyanska, written in the style of neo-romanticism with elements of symbolism. Music in the life of O. Kobylyanska was perhaps the greatest passion. The writer wrote: "I love music passionately, and it has a very strong, almost shocking influence on me." Having a musical ear, she herself played the piano well. She loved the works of F. Liszt, R. Schumann, W. Mozart, F. Mendelssohn, but F. Chopin caused the greatest response in her soul. "She gave her novella the name of one of his impromptu works - "Impromptu phantasie" (translated from French - fantasy-impromptu). This is a novella-reflection with extensive use of sound and musical imagery. The work has a fragmented, fragmentary composition, which makes it possible to tell, albeit in a dotted manner, in separate episodes, about the spiritual life of an extraordinary personality." Because here the main heroine is "tender, vulnerable, like a mimosa, with sad eyes..." She was brave, loved to admire the beauty of the environment, fantasized and "cried with sadness of the unexplained", was an individualist, spiritually sophisticated and extremely sensitive to music, to beauty in general, independent, with a developed sense of self-esteem. "Fantasy (Latin Phantasia from Greek φαντασια - imagination) - the creation by a person of new images within the framework of the future tense, using the once perceived past, based on the available intellect". "Impromptu - a small instrumental piece created without preparation and having an improvisational character. Often it is a lyrical, impetuous piece for piano, which conveys the mood of the moment. The impromtu genre developed in the era of Romanticism, in particular thanks to the works of F. Schubert and F. Chopin". This piece was written by F. Chopin in 1834 and published posthumously in 1855.