Musicology Annotation << Back In the dialog with times: G. Popov’s music in the performances by B. Livanov in Moscow Art teatre Alexander V. Naumov The article based on the archive sources is devoted to G. Popov’s (1904–1972) scores for the Moscow Art Teatre of the 1960th: «Dmitry Karamazov» after F. Dostoevsky and «Egor Bulytchev and the others» by M. Gorky. Both works are treated in the context of the same play’s stage versions showed earlier, using «a dialog in the memory of stage». Important subject of the essay is a musical dramaturgy of the compositions and also in the composer’s using of the symphonic method in the Incidental music genre according to the ideas by B. Livanov, famous soviet actor and stage director, fi xed in his tasks. Each score has some features of the throughout developed cycle. Folk songs, arranged stylized, are important in the «Dmitry Karamazov» music. There formed a single semantic fi eld related to the aesthetics of Mussorgsky’s operas. Culmination musical points in the fi nals of acts are much signifi cant in «Egor Bulytchov». There were ideological emphasizes, increased in the performance. The life of the old merchant’s house was shaking by the revolutionary storm. Thus become a symbolic backdrop for the dying of the central hero. Keywords: Popov, Livanov, Moscow Art theatre, «Karamazov», Dostoevsky, «Bulytchov», Gorky, Incidental music, symphonism. Contacts: E-mail: alvlnaumov@list.ru Pp. 17-23.