The Music Analysis And Performance INterpretation Of Kabalevsky’s "D Major Piano Concerto"

Dmitry Borisovieh Kabalevsky (Dmitry Borisovieh Kabalevsky 1904-1987) is the famous composer, music educator and social activist of the former Soviet Union. He devoted all his life to his music education, especially for the music education of young children. Most of his works are made for young people. At the same time, he also founded his own educational philosophy, edited Kabalevsky syllabus.proposed the famous theory of Three Pillars and put these ideas into his own creation.In this paper, the research of the first D Major Piano Concerto is one song among a set of Concerto for young people. It is also the most popular song. This piece integrated the Kabalevsky’s philosophy of education, on the basic of the theory of the "three pillars" It combined singing style theme, dance style theme and theme song style fuses, Which lets the young people taste the comprehensive use of a variety of style themes in one piece. Although the concerto is strange for children and adolescents, the composer used most basic and simple techniques without undue virtuoso passages. The young people can learn new forms of play in their ability, and improve their comprehensive ability to play.This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter outlines the Levski’s life and his contribution and introduces the Piano Concerto briefly. The second chapter analyzes the "D Major Piano Concerto" from the theme style, musical structure, harmony, mode characteristics. The third chapter analyzes how to interpret the works from the theme melody, weaving, scale, rhythm and speed and so on through his own playing and learning experience about this song and also hopes to help future generations learn and play this song.