Boris de Schlözer

Boris de Schloezer (Russian Борис Фёдорович Шлёцер / Boris Fyodorovich Schlozer, scientific transliteration Boris Fedorovic Šlëcer, also Борис де Шлёцер, scientific transliteration Boris de Šlëcer; born December 8, 1881 in Vitebsk; † 7 October 1969 in Paris) was a Russian Translator and musicologist of German origin in exile in France.

Life

Boris de Schloezer comes from the German family Schlozer. His father Fyodor Yulievich Schloezer (1842-1906) had come as a lawyer to Vitebsk, where Boris was born in 1881.

After the October Revolution he emigrated to Paris, where he remained until his death.

Boris de Schloezer made ​​primarily as an agent of Russian music and philosophy a name. As early as 1919 he wrote a basic introduction to the work of Alexander Scriabin, who was married to his sister Tatiana de Schloezer ( 1883-1922 ). In French exile he translated Tolstoy and Gogol. In particular, he was the philosopher Leo Shestov closely associated, whose work he made known through the translation into French only in the West. His introduction to Johann Sebastian Bach was translated into several languages.

Works

• Boris F. Schloezer: A. Scriabin. Berlin o.J. (in French under the title Scriabine Alexandre, Paris, 1975, English Scriabin: artist and mystic, Oxford 1987)
• Draft musical aesthetics. For an understanding of Johann Sebastian Bach. Translated from the French by Horst luminous man. Hamburg / München: Ellermann 1964.