Sergei Taneyev

Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (Russian: Сергей Иванович Танеев, scientific transliteration Sergei Ivanovich Taneev; * 13.jul / 25 November 1856greg in Vladimir, .. .. † 6.jul / 19 June 1915greg in Djudkowo in Moscow) was a Russian composer.

Vita

Taneyev came from upscale ratios so that he could deal right from his early childhood to intensively with music. Already in 1866 he entered the Moscow Conservatory and studied piano, composition, orchestration and morphology with prominent figures such as Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Nikolai Rubinstein. With the former, he formed a lifelong friendship. In 1875 he finished his studies with the gold medal. First, Taneyev was mainly active as a pianist and toured ( including France ). In 1878 he became professor of harmony and orchestration at the Moscow Conservatory, 1881 in addition professor of piano and finally in 1883 professor of composition. From 1885 to 1889 he was director of the Conservatory, after which he chose to pursue only his teaching in the subjects of counterpoint, fugue and morphology. Several of his students (eg, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin and Reinhold Gliere ) developed into well-known composers. In human terms, had the Taneyev comprehensively educated, who was interested in, for example, for philosophy, embossing on his students. In 1905 he left the Conservatoire. Taneyev also emerged as an author of many important musicological writings and was provided with numerous awards. In 1915 he retired to the funeral of his pupil Alexander Scriabin a heavy cold to that would lead to his death.

Style

Taneyev initially oriented more towards western trends, however, turned ultimately the Russian nationalist movement. Throughout his life he was interested in the music of the past ( he studied the works of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, for example, Georg Friedrich Handel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart intense), leading to a characteristic of his contrapuntal mastery - not for nothing that he is as the largest contrapuntist of Russian music. Often academicism and uninspired drought him have been accused, but this by no means true of all his works. For the most part alien to him was the salon music; he was more inclined to larger, more sophisticated works. This will already be recognized by that he " be " for instrument, the piano, has little written; his tastes lay rather in the field of vocal and chamber music. Tradition has it, for example, that he gave his students the advice to not compose preludes, but joints.

Works

  • Orchestral works Symphony No. 1 in E minor (1873 /74)
  • Symphony No. 2 in B flat major (1878, only 3 sets completed )
  • Symphony No. 3 in D minor (1884 )
  • Symphony No. 4 in C minor, op.12 (1898 )
  • Concert Overture " Oresteia ", Op 6 (1889, by theme the eponymous opera trilogy )
  • Concert Suite in G minor, Op 28 for Violin and Orchestra ( 1909)
  • Piano Concerto in E flat major (1876, only 2 sets completed )
  • " Oresteia " trilogy by Aeschylus Opera ( 1884-94 )
  • " John of Damascus ", cantata, Op 1 (1884 )
  • " After reading a psalm ," cantata, Op 36 (1915 )
  • 12 choirs a cappella by Yakov Polonsky, Op 27 (1909 )
  • 16 choirs a cappella by Konstantin Balmont, Op 35 ( 1912/13, only 8 choirs received )
  • Other choral works
  • Songs ( inter alia in Esperanto )
  • String Quartet No. 1 in B flat minor, Op 4 (1890)
  • String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op 5 (1894 /95)
  • String Quartet No. 3 in D minor, Opus 7 (1886, rev. 1896)
  • String Quartet No. 4 in A minor, Op 11 (1898 /99)
  • String Quartet No. 5 in A major, Op 13 ( 1902/ 03)
  • String Quartet No. 6 in B flat major, Op 19 ( 1903-05 )
  • 3 posthumously published as No. 7-9 String Quartets ( Es-Dur, 1880, C Major, 1883, A -Dur, 1883)
  • String Trio in D major for violin, viola and cello (1879 /80)
  • String Trio in D major op 21 for 2 violins and viola (1907 )
  • String Trio in E flat major op.31 for violin, viola and tenor viola (1910 /11)
  • String Trio in B minor for violin, viola and cello (1913, partially outlines only )
  • String Quintet in G major, Op 14 for 2 violins, viola and two cellos (1901 )
  • String Quintet in C major op 16 for 2 violins, 2 violas and cello (1903 /04)
  • Violin Sonata in A minor (1911 )
  • Piano Trio in D major op 22 ( 1906-08 )
  • Piano Quartet in E- flat major, Op 20 ( 1902-06 )
  • Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 30 (1910 /11)
  • Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor, Op 29 (1910 )
  • Smaller pieces

A complete list of works can be found on the pages of Russian music archive in Hanover; however, it is advisable to have some details on this page ( dates, keys, etc.) exercise caution.

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