JÄnis Ivanovs
Jānis Ivanov ( born October 9, 1906 in Preiļi in Daugavpils, Latgale, † March 27, 1983 in Riga ) was a Latvian composer.
Life
Jānis Ivanov came from a Russian family of Old Believers who had settled in the Baltics. Ivanov studied until 1931 piano and composition at the Conservatory in Riga Georg Schnéevoigt; then he attended until 1933 the master class in composition of Jāzeps Vītols. From 1931 he worked as conductor of the Latvian Radio Radio Symphony Orchestra and sound engineer. In 1944 he was a lecturer in composition at the Conservatory Latvian Riga. A year later he received the post of Artistic Director of the Latvian Radio, a position he held until 1963. 1955 Ivanov was promoted to professor of composition and orchestration at the Conservatoire Latvian Riga. This teaching he said to his death. Ivanov received several national awards for his compositions, and was appointed in 1956 to the People's Artist of the USSR.
Style
Ivanov's ' style changed greatly over the course of his life; Therefore, his work has a number of different style periods. In the 1930s, he created a kind of Latvian national romanticism, whose musical language largely based on the music of the Romantic period. Many of the musical images of works from this period have a great love of nature. Striking is a rather somber tone which should pervade his entire work. After Ivanov's the beginning of the 1940s took up, among other influences of Claude Debussy and its harmonics are noticeably tighter, he took approximately around 1948 seems to get distance from this trend and was based on socialist realism. The works of this period exude optimism and solidarity with the people. Towards the end of the 1950s he pursued his previously broken path. He is now oriented towards more modern composers like Honegger, Stravinsky or Bartók. Further experiments led him to the beginning of the 1960s to the twelve-tone technique. The tone of the works of this period is sometimes quite aggressive. In the late 1960s Ivanov changed again his style and turned to a kind of neo-romanticism to what, among other re- turning to a greatly expanded tonality meant that he but less in the traditional sense as a general principle of his compositions, but rather as a kind of stylistic devices began. Ivanov is one of the most important Latvian composer. The focus of his work his symphonies, which were compared due to its mixture of tragedy and heroic gestures with Greek tragedies.
Works
- 21 symphonies, including No. 1 in B flat minor " Poema - Sinfinia " (1933 )
- No. 2 in D minor ( 1935)
- No. 3 in F minor ( 1938)
- No. 4 in E flat minor "Atlantis" (after Plato's island Atlantis ) with women's choir (1941 )
- No. 5 in C major (1945 )
- No. 6 in E minor " Latgale " (1949 )
- No. 8 in B minor (1956 )
- No. 10 in D major (1963 )
- No. 13 in D minor " Sinfonia humana " for narrator and orchestra (1969 )
- No. 15 in B flat minor " Sinfonia ipsa " (1972)
- No. 20 in B Minor (1981 )
- No. 21 in C minor (1983, unfinished)
- Other orchestral works " Cloud Mountain ", symphonic poem (1938 )
- Cello Concerto in B minor (1938, lost in the war, reconstructed in 1945 )
- "Rainbow ", symphonic poem (1939 )
- Violin Concerto in E minor (1951 )
- " Lāčplēsis ", symphonic poem (1957 )
- Piano Concerto in D minor (1959 )
- Sinfonietta for String Orchestra in B minor (1977 )
- Vocal music " Poem " for choir and string orchestra (1973 )
- " The song" for chorus and orchestra (1978 )
- Songs
- Chamber Music String Quartet No.1 (1931 /32)
- String Quartet No.2 in C major (1946 )
- String Quartet No.3 (1961 )
- Piano Trio in B minor (1976 )
- Piano music 20 Preludes ( 1934-82 )
- Variations in E minor (1948 )
- Sonata brevis E flat minor (1962 )
- 24 Sketches ( 1965-72 )