Abstract
The study of the phenomenon of the Mozart tradition is stipulated by the need for cognition of the artist’s aesthetic notions. The article makes an attempt of indicating the tendencies of bringing in the Mozart tradition into the legacy of the Kazakh theater and ballet producer Mintay Tleybayev (1947– 2009), whose activities have not yet received its due comprehension in the field of art criticism. The methodological basis of the work is formed by musicological works devoted to the Mozart tradition and the contiguous concepts, including works by Anatoly M. Tsuker, Arkady I. Klimovitsky and Alexander Ya. Selitsky. The basis for the research of Mintay Zh. Tleubayev’s legacy for children turned out to be the empirical and analytical methods, as well as methods of reconstruction, analysis and descriptions of a performance developed by the Leningrad “Gvozdyov” school of theatrical studies which present the possibility to reveal Tleubayev’s Mozartian world perception. The author of the work emphasizes that the theme of childhood became basic in the works of the producer and choreographer. It became for him an inexhaustible spring, which allowed him to permeate the fabric of the performance with play elements, which reveal the nature of naïveté intrinsic to the ballet producer’s world. In these artistic intentions it is possible to view Tleubayev’s Mozartian world perception examined for the first time in the context of the present world perception. Keywords: Kazakh ballet, ballet production, producer-choreographer, Mintay Tleubayev, the Mozart tradition, the theme of childhood.