The semantics of intertextual links in Grigory Korchmar's monodrama “Der kontrabass”

The monodrama “Der Kontrabaß" (2009) was written by G. Korchmar after the same name play of P. Süskind. In this monodrama there are two psychological dramas: of a "little man" and a musical instrument that is regarded as another unfortunate person. The personification is externalized in many respects by a variety of intertextual links: there are reminiscences of classic music of Mozart, Brahms, Saint-Saёns, Schubert, Wagner, R. Strauss, and others. The intertextual artistic method “prompted" by Süskind has allowed Korchmar not only to express a complex psychological content, but also to create a sort of double-bass music anthology and dictionary of the instrument’s expressive possibilities.