Daniil I. Topilin

Musicologist, teacher.

He graduated from the Specialised Secondary Music School attached to the N. G. Zhilaynov Kazan State Conservatory, the Faculty of Music Theory and Composition of the Kazan Conservatory (class of Prof. A. L. Maklygin), and the postgraduate programme of the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (supervisor Prof. T. Y. Maslovskaya).

His Candidate dissertation, «Russian Cosmism in Musical Culture at the Turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries», was prepared in the Department of Music History and defended at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (supervisor Prof. T. Y. Maslovskaya).

He was awarded First Prize in the Fourth All‑Russian Competition for Young Scholars’ Research in the Arts and Culture, organised by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

Conference participation:

• International student and postgraduate conference «Music in the Modern World: Culture, Art, Education», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (November 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015);
• All‑Russian student and postgraduate conference «Richard Wagner and the World Opera Theatre», Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory (December 2013);
• International conference «Second Smolensky Readings: Choral Art and the Present Day», Kazan State Conservatory named after N. G. Zhilaynov (October 2014);
• All‑Russian scholarly‑practical conference «Musical and Drama Theatre: Intersections and Interactions», Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory (November 2014);
• Twenty‑Seventh Creative Meeting of Young Scholars, Performers, Composers, and Teachers «In the Artistic Space of Time: Ideas, Problems, Music», Union of Moscow Composers (October 2015);
• International conference «Towards the 150th Anniversary of the Moscow Conservatory: S. I. Taneyev and A. N. Scriabin, Teacher and Pupil», Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory (November 2015);
• International philosophical conference «Philosophy and Art», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (April 2016);
• All‑Russian / international student and postgraduate conference «Research of Young Musicologists», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (April 2016, 2017);
• International student, postgraduate, and young scholars’ conference «Lomonosov‑2017», Lomonosov Moscow State University (April 2017);
• International conference for the 145th anniversary of A. N. Scriabin, «Scriabin in the Artistic Context of His Time», Memorial Museum of A. N. Scriabin (April 2017);
• Conference of laureates of the Fourth All‑Russian Competition for Young Scholars’ Research in the Arts and Culture, Saint Petersburg State Institute of Arts and Culture (November 2017);
• International conference for the centenary of the Memorial Museum of A. N. Scriabin, «The Creative Archive of a Composer, Artist, and Writer as an Object of Research and Publication: Problems of Textology in Musical and Literary Documents», Memorial Museum of A. N. Scriabin (October 2018);
• International conference «Musicological Forum‑2020», Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (October 2020);
• International online conference «Winged Humanity: The Idea of Space Flight and the Flying Human Being in Russian Literature and Culture», marking the sixtieth anniversary of human space flight, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences (March 2021).

Publications:

• Topilin, D. I., «The Greek Project of Y. K. Arnold», in Music in the Modern World: Culture, Art, Education, proceedings of the Fourth International Student Conference, 26–27 November 2014, Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2015, pp. 143–152;
• Topilin, D. I., «The Russian German Yury Karlovich Arnold», Muzyka i vremya, 2016, no. 6, pp. 32–36;
• Topilin, D. I., «Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin: Towards “Unattainable Worlds”», Muzykovedeniye, 2016, no. 6, pp. 39–45;
• Topilin, D. I., «A. N. Scriabin – N. K. Medtner: Towards an Understanding of Russian‑German Artistic Interactions», in Music in the Modern World: Culture, Art, Education, proceedings of the Fifth International Student Conference, 25–26 November 2015, Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2016, pp. 162–169;
• Topilin, D. I., «Certain Facets of the Philosophy of Russian Cosmism in the Artistic World of A. N. Scriabin», in Philosophy and Art, proceedings of the Fifth International Conference, Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2016, pp. 160–164;
• Topilin, D. I., «Russian Cosmism in the Music of A. N. Scriabin», Uchenye zapiski Rossiyskoy akademii muzyki imeni Gnesinykh, 2016, no. 2 (17), pp. 43–48;
• Topilin, D. I., «Y. K. Arnold – A. N. Serov: From the History of “Printed Duels”», in Issledovaniya molodykh muzykovedov (Research of Young Musicologists), proceedings of the conference of 14–15 April 2016, Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2016, pp. 60–68;
• Topilin, D. I., «The Creative Cosmos of N. K. Medtner», Muzykovedeniye, 2017, no. 2, pp. 12–16;
• Topilin, D. I., «The “Russian‑German Dialogue” of Philosophical Ideas: A. N. Scriabin – E. K. Medtner – Richard Wagner», Uchenye zapiski Rossiyskoy akademii muzyki imeni Gnesinykh, 2017, no. 1 (20), pp. 46–53;
• Topilin, D. I., «V. I. Martynov’s Opus Prenatum: Music‑Theoretical and Aesthetic‑Philosophical Aspects», in Shkola molodogo issledovatelya (School of the Young Researcher), collected papers, vol. 6 (13), Moscow, RITM, 2017, pp. 7–13;
• Topilin, D. I., «The “Russian Idea” in Musical Culture at the Turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries», Uchenye zapiski Rossiyskoy akademii muzyki imeni Gnesinykh, 2017, no. 4 (23), pp. 61–69;
• Topilin, D. I., «Maurice Ravel’s Valse: Enchantment and Catastrophe», in Issledovaniya molodykh muzykovedov, proceedings of the conference of 11–12 April 2017, Moscow, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music, 2017, pp. 115–121;
• Topilin, D. I., «Cosmic Philosophy in the Music of A. N. Scriabin», in Uchenye zapiski, vol. 9, book 1, proceedings of the International Conference «Scriabin in the Artistic Context of His Time», 25–27 April 2017, Moscow, Memorial Museum of A. N. Scriabin, 2018, pp. 10–16;
• Topilin, D. I., «The Cosmos of A. N. Scriabin», in Uchenye zapiski, vol. 9, book 2, Moscow, Memorial Museum of A. N. Scriabin, 2019, pp. 10–20;
• Topilin, D. I., «N. K. Medtner’s Musical‑Aesthetic Ideals through the Historical Time of the “Great Break”», Uchenye zapiski Rossiyskoy akademii muzyki imeni Gnesinykh, 2021, no. 1 (36), pp. 33–41;
• Topilin, D. I., «A. N. Scriabin and the Future of Russian Cosmism», in Uchenye zapiski, vol. 10, Moscow, Memorial Museum of A. N. Scriabin, 2021, pp. 5–18;
• Topilin, D. I., «Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff: The Harmony of West and East», Opera musicologica, 2021, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 74–94;
• Topilin, D. I., «Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev: Trans‑Religious Cosmism», Uchenye zapiski Rossiyskoy akademii muzyki imeni Gnesinykh, 2022, no. 2 (41), pp. 38–48.