The focus of this article is the creative biography of the Russian-Swiss
composer Pavel Fedorovich Juon (1872-1940). The object of the research
is the composer’s epistolary heritage, fi rstly presented to Russian musi-
cians and researchers. On the basis of letters stored in the archives
department of the University Cantonal Library of Lausanne (Switzer-
land) and data translated by the author of the article, the author reveals
the main artistic and aesthetic ideas that are important for the mature
and late periods of the composer’s life in the historical and cultural
framework of the fi rst half of the 20th century. A detailed analysis of the
correspondence with the German musician Hans Сhemin-Petit made it
possible to supplement the portrait of P. F. Juon’s with the characteristics
of some of his personal qualities, the specifi city of the existing profes-
sional contacts of the composer, and the features of his attitude to the
world in the last years of his life.
Keywords: musical art of the fi rst half of the 20th century, P. F. Juon, Hans Chemin-Petit, Russian Diaspora, biography, epistolary heritage, correspondence.
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