PIANIST’S PERFORMING CREATIVITY AS A DISTINCT FORM OF ARTISTIC ACTIVITY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the theoretical understanding of the pianist’s performing creativity as a distinct form of artistic activity. The relevance of the study is determined by the need to clarify the creative status of musical performance in contemporary musicology, where the relationship between the musical text, interpretation, and artistic meaning-making remains a subject of scholarly debate. The study argues that performing creativity cannot be regarded merely as a process of reproducing a fixed authorial text. Its specificity lies in the creation of a new artistic reality of sound that emerges through the musician’s interpretative activity. The article reveals the interaction between the structural determinacy of a musical work and the freedom of artistic interpretation. It demonstrates that the performer’s creative space is formed through intonation, articulation, dynamics, agogics, pedaling, timbral thinking, and sonic dramaturgy. The artistic image is identified as the central outcome of performing creativity, enabling the transition of a musical work from the sphere of textual fixation to that of cultural experience. Musical performance is proposed as a process of meaning-making that unfolds through the interaction of the musical text, the performer’s personality, and listeners’ perception. It is demonstrated that the creative nature of piano performance is manifested not in the creation of a new musical text but in the formation of new modes of its artistic existence within cultural space.