The Creative Transformation of Composers through the Lens of Cultural Identity and Political Geography: A Micro-Deconstruction Based on Biographical and Comparative Historical Methods

Yanrui Li

doi:10.47297/wsprolaadWSP2634-786537.20260704

PDF
Export
Share
Collection
Album

The Creative Transformation of Composers through the Lens of Cultural Identity and Political Geography: A Micro-Deconstruction Based on Biographical and Comparative Historical Methods

Volume 7, Issue 4

Views: 0 Downloads: 0

The Creative Transformation of Composers through the Lens of Cultural Identity and Political Geography: A Micro-Deconstruction Based on Biographical and Comparative Historical Methods
The Creative Transformation of Composers through the Lens of Cultural Identity and Political Geography: A Micro-Deconstruction Based on Biographical and Comparative Historical Methods
Petrozavodsk State Glazunov Conservatoire, Petrozavodsk, 185031, Russia
Vol. 7, Issue 4, Pages: 176-180(2026)
Published：30 August 2026
DOI：10.47297/wsprolaadWSP2634-786537.20260704
Accepted：

Scan QR Code

Li Yanrui.The Creative Transformation of Composers through the Lens of Cultural Identity and Political Geography: A Micro-Deconstruction Based on Biographical and Comparative Historical Methods[J].Research on Literary and Art Development,2026,07(04):176-180.
DOI：

Li Yanrui.The Creative Transformation of Composers through the Lens of Cultural Identity and Political Geography: A Micro-Deconstruction Based on Biographical and Comparative Historical Methods[J].Research on Literary and Art Development,2026,07(04):176-180. DOI： 10.47297/wsprolaadWSP2634-786537.20260704.

摘要

Abstract

A composer's creative work does not exist in a vacuum. It interweaves historical events

geopolitics

and personal cultural identity. This paper employs biographical and comparative historical methods. It uses the composer's life history as the entry point. The goal is to examine the internal logic of stylistic evolution. It focuses on representative exiled composers: Fryderyk Chopin and Igor Stravinsky. By analyzing their letters

manuscripts

and representative works

it reconstructs how sociopolitical events reshaped their artistic sensibilities. The study finds two core driving forces behind stylistic evolution: the reshaping of native cultural memory and the integration of foreign cultural symbols. Chopin

in exile in Paris

elevated Polish folk elements into a universal Romantic idiom. Stravinsky

through multiple migrations

shifted from Russian nationalism to Neoclassicism and then to Serialism. This paper reveals how personal fate and macro-history interact. It provides a microscopic sample for music-historical research.

关键词

Keywords

references

Ma Jin. A Study on the Compositional Characteristics and Performance Interpretation of Chopin's Nocturne Op. 48 No. 1[J]. Art Science and Technology, 2025, 38(14).

Alan Walker. Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times[M]. Translated by Hu Yundi. Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2021.

Xia Jiaqi. A Musical Study of Chopin's Ballade No. 3 in A-flat Major (I)[J]. Drama House, 2017(22).

Ding Hao. A Study of Chopin's "Late Style"[D]. Nanjing Normal University.

"A Cannon Hidden among Flowers"—A Brief Discussion on the National Content of Chopin's Music[J]. Silicon Valley, 2009(6).

Smirnov, V. V. Stravinsky: Verge of Creativity (on the Problem of Periods)[J]. Bulletin of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, 2015(5): 206-215.

Korabelnikova, L. Z. The Musical Culture of Russian Emigration of the "First Wave"[M] // Russian Music and the 20th Century.

Gurevich, V. A. Tribute to Stravinsky[J ] . Opera musicologica, 2022, Vol. 14 , No. 2 , pp. 160 – 164 .

Demchenko, A. I. Russia of the 20th Century in the Prism of Musical Art: The 1910s – Igor Stravinsky[J ] . Manuscript, 2025, Vol. 18 , Issue 3.

Tsuker, A. M. Igor Stravinsky in the Light of Pushkin's Tradition[J ] . South-Russian Musical Almanac, 2022, No. 2 , pp. 5 - 13 .

Vershinina, I. Ya. Creative Portraits of Composers: A Popular Reference[M]. Moscow: Muzyka, 1990.

Alert me when the article has been cited

Submit

The Dissolution and Reconstruction of Chinese Urban Cultural Memory in the Short-Video Era

Structural Dynamics Study of Chopin's Nocturne in E-flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2

Protection Measures for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Context of Cultural and Tourism Integration

Deconstruction and Reconstruction: The Modernist Transformation of Traditional Myth in Jiaozi's Animation and the Contemporary Cultural Significance of the Nezha Image

Research on the Digitalization of Cultural Heritage of the Palace Museum and Its Impact on Consumer Purchase Behavior

Related Author

Jiahui Zhang Faculty of Humanities and Social Science,Beijing Normal- Hong Kong Bapist University

Xu Wang Lomonosov Moscow State University

Wen He Wanzhou District Cultural Center of Chongqing

Xueqing Li Anhui University of Finance and Economics

Xin'er Cai School of Creative Arts, Jia Hua College, Beijing Technology and Business University, Visual Communication Design

Yuhang Peng China Women's University

Weiqi Li Hainan Tropical Ocean University

Yang Liu School of Foreign Languages, Jingdezhen Ceramic University

Related Institution

Faculty of Humanities and Social Science,Beijing Normal- Hong Kong Bapist University

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Wanzhou District Cultural Center of Chongqing

Anhui University of Finance and Economics

School of Creative Arts, Jia Hua College, Beijing Technology and Business University, Visual Communication Design

⁰