Музика українського композитора В. Бібіка в світовому інформаційному просторі ХХІ століття

Abstract

The article describes the personality of Valentyn Bibik, an outstanding Ukrainian composer of the second half of the twentieth century, describes his life and creative work, analyses the reasons that led to the silencing of his music in Ukraine in Soviet times, because of which the composer’s music is sometimes better known in the world information space than in Ukraine. The article analyses the polyphonic cycle «34 Preludes and Fugues» for piano by V. Bibik, its constructive, artistic and interpretive features, and highlights an extraordinary event for the world and Ukrainian artistic community – the premiere of the entire cycle in the United States on 7, 8 and 9 March 2018 by American pianist Timothy Goft with the assistance of Ukrainian-American composer, pianist and conductor Virko Balei, who has become a kind of «a bridge» between Ukrainian and world music culture, persistently promoting Ukrainian art in the global information space of the 21st century.