The influence of folklore and genres in V. Bibergan’s music

Vadim Bibergan’s music for Russian folk orchestra is important artistic phenomenon and material for study of his musical style. The patterns that define this style are rooted in many of its aspects. Among them, two very noticeable ones can be distinguished: the influence of various genre models and the connection between the composer’s music and folklore, both Russian and foreign. The influence of folk music is determined by at least three parameters: attitude towards quotations from folklore primary sources, the formation and development of musical material, and the introduction of syncretistic features with other arts. The connection of the composer’s works with various genre models is defined as stable, organic and interpreted in different ways within the framework of the entire work of Bibergan. Both above influences are organically built into the style and are its substantial component. Their definition and description are the essence and task of the article, the implementation of which determines its originality and positivity from the point of view of subsequent research on the same topic. The study used the original compositions for the orchestra of Russian folk instruments, the analysis of which is an additional contribution to the study of the music of the St. Petersburg author