Image of Ivan the Terrible and his epoch in the context of the searches and implementation of Russian national-cultural identity in musical art (to the formulation of the scientific research problem)

The author determines the relevance of the study by the absence of special works dedicated to the composers' searches of Russian national musical identity in the disclosure of the artistic image of Ivan the Terrible and his era. Specificity of the historical path of Russia, largely predetermined by Tsar Ivan, intensifies attention to the problem of finding a national identity in art through his artistic image. The hymnographic musical works of the Tsar Ivan's authorship are allocated as representational sources of study. The most important sources for solving the problem are also the works of outstanding composers of the 19th-21th centuriesA. Rubinstein, P. Tchaikovsky, N. Rimsky-Korsakov, S. Prokofiev, R. Shchedrin, S. Slonimsky et al. The author proposes to consider the musical embodiment of the idea of the national cultural identity in the image of Ivan the Terrible, taking into account the correlation with the fundamental foundations of the Old Russian musical written culture and folklore, with the principles of the Russian national classical school of music, with the reflection of the Western European achievements within the framework of author's style of each of composers.