Mazel, Lev Abramovich

Parents - Rosa Savelievna Mazel (nee Uryson, 1880-1966) and Abram Lvovich Mazel (1874-1941) ^[1] . Brother - Julius Abramovich Mazel (1911-1941), a German philologist, died at the front. His grandfather, Savely Isaakovich Uryson (1854, Kovno - 1918, Kislovodsk ), was one of the founders of the Uryson Brothers Banking House (and headed the main office of the bank in Kovno), with branches in St. Petersburg , Moscow , Odessa and other cities.

In 1930, L. A. Mazel graduated from the Mathematics Department of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow University and at the same time the Research Department of the Moscow Conservatory (MGK), as Professor A. N. Alexandrov .

In 1932 he graduated from the graduate school of the Moscow State Conservatory (supervisor - professor M.V. Ivanov-Boretsky ) and received the degree of candidate of art history.

In 1941 he received a doctorate in art history. Theme of the doctoral dissertation: "The basic principle of the melodic structure of a homophonic theme."

In 1931 - 1967 taught at the Moscow Conservatory (professor since 1939 ), from 1936 to 1941 . He was the head of the Department of Music Theory of MGK. Among his famous students is the composer S. Razorenov .

He was buried in Moscow at the Don cemetery ^[2] .

• Stepfather of philologist Alexander Konstantinovich Zholkovsky ; the nephew of lawyer Isaak Savelyevich Uryson (1877-1938, executed), editor of the journal Vestnik Prava.
• Mother's cousins ​​- German publicist Josef Bloch (1871-1936), founder of the newspaper Sozialistische Monatshefte ; mathematician Pavel Samuilovich Uryson (1898-1924); children's writer and literary critic Lina Samoilovna Neumann (1887-1971); chess player Beniamin Markovich Blumenfeld (1884-1947) ^{[3] [4]} .

Peru L.A. Mazel owns musicology works in the field of research of musical styles , musical forms , musical syntax, harmony , melodics , rhythm , musical aesthetics , methodology of musical analysis.

The specifics of his research is based on a comprehensive analysis, historical-stylistic and aesthetic consideration of the integral structure of a musical work (the method of “ holistic analysis ”), which made it possible to decipher purely musical sign systems in their philosophical and aesthetic concreteness and generalization.

L. A. Mazel is the author of the “theory of expressive possibilities”; he introduced the concepts of “artistic discovery” and “themes of the first and second kind” into musicology.

Through his methodological developments, Mazel achieved a rapprochement between musical theory and aesthetics , thereby enriching musical science with new philosophical approaches and discoveries.

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (12.28.1946)

• Essays on the history of theoretical. musicology, c. 1-2, M., 1934-39 (with I. Ya. Ryzhkin )
• About the melody, M., 1952
• The structure of musical works. M., 1960.
• Aesthetics and analysis // Soviet music. 1966. No 12
• Analysis of musical works (jointly with V. A. Zuckerman ). M., 1967.
• Problems of classical harmony. M., 1972.
• Music analysis issues. M., 1978.
• On the nature and means of music, M., 1983.

• Mazel Lev (Leo) Abramovich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A. M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
• From Lully to the present: [Sat. articles for the 60th anniversary of Mazel]. M., 1967;
• Zhytomyr D. Science and the “secret of music” // Soviet music . 1967. No. 5;
• Music: analysis and aesthetics: [Sb. articles on the 90th anniversary of Mazel]. Petrozavodsk; SPb., 1997;
• Zholkovsky A. Stars and a little nervous. M., 2008.

• Scientist, scholar, thinker // T. Kurysheva
• Leo Mazel. Oral Stories (1997) . Video recording (unspecified) . Youtube.com (May 17, 2010) . Date of treatment November 12, 2017.