Francuski muzyczny symbolism stylu późnego
French Musical Symbolism of the Late Style

Author(s): Jolanta Szulakowska-Kulawik
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Music
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The following article is based upon the premise of intertemporal comparative studies, the concept of which originated in a publication by Gustav R. Hocke on the stylistic similarity of European mannerism and surrealism, as well as a historical monograph on Burgundy by Norman Davies, and the canonical treatise by Norbert Elias. Thus, the article presents a picture of social and artistic transformations of the courtly culture of Burgundy in the late Middle-Ages, referring to the early French humanism and the works of Guillaume Dufay, and contrasts it with the nostalgic post-Romantic art of the declining bourgeoisie French elites in the late 19th century. The article analyses selected works by Maurice Ravel, André Caplet, Reynald Hahn and Ernest Chausson. Both socio-political processes of those belles époques exhibit similar stylistic markers – the decorative character of the works of art, an increase in symbolism, mysticism and etherealness as well as mannerism of the medium,which emerged on the basis of social changes connected with the decline of knighthoodand the bourgeoisie, respectively.

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