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    STUDIA MUSICA - Issue no. 1 / 2009  
         
  Article:   THE BROKEN LINEARITY IN THE OPERA LAST DAYS, LAST HOURS BY ANATOL VIERU / LINÉARITÉ ROMPUE DANS L’OPÉRA « SABLIER » DERNIÈRS JOURS, DERNIÈRES HEURES D’ANATOL VIERU.

Authors:  LUANA STAN. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:   The opera entitled Last Days, Last Hours (1990-1995) by Anatol Vieru is inspired by Poushkin’s tragedy, Mozart and Salieri, that presents Mozart’s death, and, in parallel, by Boulgakov’s drama, Last Days, where the writer presents Poushkin’s death. The linearity of the musical discourse is broken, because the dual action is split between parallel plans; it is an opera where two stories are being told at the same time, the stories of the deaths of two characters and their last moments, right before the end. In terms of music, this determines a mix of musical styles and quotations from other composers. Besides that, the opera Last Days, Last Hours is the last opera written by Anatol Vieru, composed shortly before his own death, and he identifies himself as the next figure in this series of tragic destinies.

Keywords: postmodernism, broken linearity, style mix, musical quotations, Mozart, Poushkin, Vieru, coherence, discontinuity 		 
         
     
         
         
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