Musicology Annotation << Back Domestic music of the early XX century – the verge of grotesque Demchenko Alexander I. The diversity of the content-style panorama of Russian music of the early XX century, one of its angles was manifested in the unprecedented deployment of resources of artistic grotesque. The roots of this phenomenon are found in the artistic criticism of the turn of the XIX–XX centuries, some strokes of which are outlined in the 1890s (including the works of Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov), and then, in the 1900s, followed by its extremely rapid development, in its scale and results unprecedented for both domestic and world music art. In the subsequent flourishing of the musical criticism of the 1910s, the main course of the grotesque was connected with the discovery of its qualitatively new resources, and the main contribution was made in the works of Stravinsky and Prokofiev. Moreover, the radicalism of the plants, deforming entity, amylacetate and destructive orientation of the grotesque is not just meshed with aggression (a typical example is a piano cycle of Prokofiev «Sarcasms»). Grotesque imagery in its form, which was characteristic of the beginning of the XX century, passed the final stage of its development in the 1920s, receiving a concentrated expression in Shostakovich's opera the «Nose». Keywords: music of Russia of the beginning of the XX century, grotesque angles, evolution of grotesque imagery from the 1890s to the 1920s. DOI: 10.25791/musicology.12.2018.318 Contacts: E-mail: alexdem43@mail.ru Pp. 26-34.