"UNDER THE MUSICAL AND ACADEMIC INFLUENCE OF VIACHESLAV PETR": THE INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS OF KLYMENT KVITKA’S SCHOLARLY WORLDVIEW
Keywords:
Klyment Kvitka, Viacheslav Petr, ethnomusicology, intellectual formation, microhistory, historical anthropology, Kyiv-Pechersk Gymnasium, academic mentoring.Abstract
This paper explores the intellectual connections between the Ukrainian folklorist and musicologist Klyment Kvitka and Viacheslav Petr, director of the Kyiv-Pechersk Gymnasium and an outstanding Ukrainian-Czech educator, philologist, and music theorist. The study highlights V. Petr's impact on K. Kvitka’s scientific worldview through the analysis of epistolary sources and bibliographic records. Central to the research is K. Kvitka’s letter to Olena Pchilka, in which he explicitly acknowledges being “under the musical and academic influence” of V. Petr, while also noting the shared academic lineage with musicologist Mykola Hrinchenko. The paper further demonstrates how the mature K. Kvitka integrated V. Petr’s theories on ancient musical scales into his own studies. The findings illuminate V. Petr's important role as an educator, demonstrating that the gymnasium was a powerful intellectual environment in which the academic worldview of the European elite was forged.
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