Arseny Avraamov

Arseny Mikhailovich Awraamow (Russian Арсений Михайлович Авраамов ), actually Krasnokutski (Russian Краснокутский; * 10 Apriljul / April 22 1886greg in Novocherkassk, .. † May 19, 1944 in Moscow) was a Russian composer and music theorist of the avant-garde.

Life and work

In 1908 Awraamow began his musical studies at the Moscow Conservatory, but he had to drop out for financial reasons. A scholarship enabled him shortly after his studies in composition and piano continue at the school of the Moscow Philharmonic Society at Protopopov and Arseny Nikolayevich Koreshchenko, which he successfully completed in 1911. Beginning of the 1910s he worked as a music critic under the pseudonym Ars for a music publisher. After the outbreak of the First World War, he fled abroad and earned his living as a heater and as a circus artist. In 1917 he returned to Russia and became the People's Commissar of Education ( Narkompros ) appointed.

A year later he began a concert for factory sirens Sinfonija Gudkov to compose, from which he graduated in 1921. He performed the concerto later on the fifth anniversary of the October Revolution on November 7, 1922 in Baku and a year in Moscow. Excitation was given by Aleksei Kapitanowitsch Gastew from the futuristic scene of St. Petersburg. Avraamow built a lot of new musical instruments, such as the Saitenpolychor, and developed in 1926 as part of his dissertation own universal sound system from 48 tones Universal Well sistema Antonov, for which he also composed symphonies from cannon fire, crashing airplanes, military marches, and other elements. In the late 1920s, he demonstrated his compositions in Berlin, Frankfurt and Stuttgart. Awraamow also addressed with the microtonal music and in 1929 he was probably the first to directly generated the tone for a film by markings on the soundtrack (Institute for Scientific Research ). From 1934 Awraamow taught at the Moscow Conservatory in the History and Theory of sound systems.

In his last years Avraamow lived in Nalchik, Kabardino -Balkaria, where he collected folk music of the peoples of the Caucasus, he wrote several compositions based on these materials.