The solo piano music of Einojuhani Rautavaara

Matambo, Lotta Eleonoora

Title: The solo piano music of Einojuhani Rautavaara
Creator: Matambo, Lotta Eleonoora
ThesisAdvisor: Brukman, J
Subject: Rautavaara, Einojuhani, 1928 -- Piano music -- Criticism and interpretation Piano music -- History and criticism
Date: 2012
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MMus
Identifier: vital:2646
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002311
Description: Einojuhani Rautavaara's oeuvre is characterised by four distinctive creative periods, each demonstrating a remarkable variety of compositional idioms and styles. His application of multifaceted elements, often within a single work leading to notions of postmodernism, is derived from multifarious sources, such as (Finnish) folklore, Orthodox mysticism and a wide variety of standard twentieth century compositional techniques. Furthermore, Rautavaara regularly quotes from his own material, thus creating elements of auto-allusions within his oeuvre; a predisposition which forms an essential part of his compositional aesthetic. Analyses of eight piano works (1952-2007) provide a cross-section of Rautavaara's output which, together with a consideration of biographical factors and analytical focus on the intertextual elements of his writing, offers a rationale for determining the development of his musical identity. The analyses conclude that intertextual elements, which appear through a diverse array of expressive modes (such as mysticism, nationalism and constructivism) are an essential part of Rautavaara's eclectic compositional style and contribute to an understanding of the on-going development of his musical identity.
Format: 148 leaves, pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Music and Musicology
Language: English
Rights: Matambo, Lotta Eleonoora

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