S. I. Taneev. Supra-religious cosmisms
This article attempts to correlate the figure of the Russian composer-scientist S. Taneyev with the universal phenomenon of Russian cosmism. The connection can be traced in Taneyev's creative interest in the ancient period as a cultural and civilizational beginning of human history and the composer's special attitude to the Christian faith. The author singles out two significant works by Taneyev, the Piano Quintet op.30 in g-moll and the cantata «After Reading the Psalm» op. 36. They are understood by the author as the summit embodiment of Taneyev's creative ideas and appear to be a manifestation of his special cosmic character. Taneyev illuminates a path to universal humanistic heights: an alternative is proposed in the cantata - a supra-religious moral unity of mankind, endowed with the purity of the ancestral foundations of ancient world interpretations. Russian cosmism in musical culture gets its original embodiment; the designation of Taneyev's cosmism sounds paradoxical - supra-religious cosmism.