Issay Dobrowen
Issay Alexandrowich Dobrowen ( Исай Александрович Добровейн; * 15 Februarjul / February 27 1891greg in Nizhny Novgorod, .. † December 9, 1953 in Oslo) was a Norwegian conductor, pianist, opera director and composer of Russian-Jewish origin.
Life
As Izchok Sorachowitsch Barabeitschik ( Ицхок Зорахович Барабейчик ) born, he was adopted by the family of his mother's stepfather, and received their name Dobrowel he changed during his student days in Dobrowejn. After emigrating in 1922, he was known by the name Issay Dobrowen.
Dobrowen occurred as early as the age of four publicly in Nizhny Novgorod as a pianist. There, the pianist David Shor in 1901 noticed him and secured him a place at the Moscow Conservatory. He was here a composition student of Sergei Taneyev and attended the piano class of Konstantin Igumnov. He was soon regarded as one of the best piano students of the Conservatory and was awarded in 1911 in the person a gold medal.
Then he went to Vienna to study with Leopold Godowsky and moved to just under a year to Paris. There he belonged to the circle of Russian exiles around the poet Maxim Gorky, but returned after half a year after Moscow. Here he came under conductors such as Sergei Koussevitzky and Nikolai Malko on, played in a trio with Gregor Piatigorsky and mixing Mischakow and occasionally accompanied the famous Fyodor Chaliapin. As a pianist and composer of incidental music he worked at the Stanislavsky Theater ( Art Theatre ). In 1920, he played Beethoven's Appassionata before Lenin.
1918 joined Dobrowen first time as a conductor. Already in the following year he led a performance of Boris Godunov at the Bolshoi Theatre with Chaliapin in the title role and received a firm commitment as a conductor. After his contract was not renewed in 1922, he emigrated with his family to Dresden. Here he worked with Fritz Busch the performance of Boris Godunov at the Semperoper, with which he laid the foundation of his career in Western Europe. He appeared as a guest conductor of the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig and the Staatskapelle Dresden and was hired in 1924 to the Berlin Volksoper.
In the season 1927-28 he was chief conductor at the Opera of Sofia, was then engaged in Oslo and 1930 in San Francisco. He retained his residence in Dresden, but was a Norwegian citizen since 1928. In 1934, he moved to Norway, from where he fled before the German invasion in 1940 to Sweden. Here he worked until 1945 at the Royal Opera House in Stockholm.
After 1945 Dobrowen played a number of recordings with the founded by Walter Legge London Philharmonia Orchestra one. More than 20 hours of music - today mostly available on CD - he recorded for HMV. In Paris, he realized a complete recording of Boris Godunov. He also continued to channel opera performances, among others at the Covent Garden Opera and La Scala.
Dobrowen composed twenty works, including a piano concerto, a violin sonata, stage and film music, choral and solo songs as well as small pieces for violin and piano. In particular, the Piano Concerto, which he himself aufführte internationally, was recently re more attention. He was following the compositional style of Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin, and Nicolai Medtner.
Media
- Issay Dobrowen: Piano Concerto, Sonata Skaza, youth Sonata, Deuxième Sonate. Jørn Fossheim piano, Alexander Dmitriev conductor of the St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic Orchestra ( Академический симфонический оркестр Санкт - Петербургской филармонии ). CD, Simax Classics 2004 PSC 1246th