Edison Denisov

Edison Vasilievich Denisov (Russian Эдисон Васильевич Денисов, often in the spelling Edison Denisov, born April 6, 1929 in Tomsk, Siberia, † November 24, 1996 in Paris) was a Soviet Russian composer and music theorist. He is one of the most important composers of Russian modernism.

Life

Denisov was born as the son of an engineer and a doctor in Siberia. He learned 1946-1947 piano at the music school in Tomsk. From 1947 to 1951, he initially studied mathematics at the Tomsk State University and graduated with a diploma before he decided to become a composer. This decision was supported by his later teacher Dmitri Shostakovich. Denisov matriculated to the Moscow Conservatory. He was taught by Vissarion Schebalin in composition and piano by Nikolai Peiko.

Denisov, one of the most important Russian composers of the second half of the 20th century, held for many years a course in instrumentation and score reading at the Moscow Conservatory, in the middle of a function "old teacher ". As a result of his enthusiasm for avant-garde tendencies of the West in his own work, he was not his own composition class " entrusted " (the famous Troika - Schnittke, Gubaidulina, Denisov - gained no official recognition ). From the General Secretary of the Composers' Union of the Soviet Union, Tikhon Khrennikov in 1979 he was sharply criticized as a member of the group Chrennikows Seven. Nevertheless, many composition students attended the class Denisov just to get to know his work and eager to learn to listen to the criticisms and desires of secret authority. Among his most important students count Jelena Firsova, Dmitri Smirnov, Vladimir Tarnopolski and Vadim Werbitzky.

He worked from 1968 to 1970 at the Experimental Studio for Electronic Music in Moscow. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he became secretary of the Russian Composers' Union and founded the Association for Contemporary Music in 1932 resolved (ASM -2) again. He was also a patron of the 1990 founded by Yuri Kasparov Moscow contemporary music ensembles in March. In 1992, he eventually became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory.

From 1990 to 1991 he worked at IRCAM in Paris. Towards the end of his life, seriously injured after a traffic accident, Denisov emigrated in 1994 to France and was treated in a Paris hospital, where he died in 1996. He had a great affinity for French culture and revered the renowned composer Pierre Boulez. Other musical idols were Bartók, Mozart, Stravinsky and Webern.

After a joint masterclass with Edison Denisov at the International Music Festival in Lucerne IMF founded 1993, the Swiss composer Marianne Schroeder, John Wolf Brennan, Jean -Luc Darbellay, Christian Henking and Michael Schneider Groupe Lacroix.

Awards and Affiliations

  • Corresponding Member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts ( 1985)
  • Officier de l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1986 )
  • Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin ( East) ( 1990)
  • Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1990 )
  • Member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin ( 1990)
  • Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris ( 1993)
  • People's Artist of Russia (1995 )

Works

  • He wrote a flute concerto for Aurèle Nicolet, a violin concerto for Gidon Kremer, an oboe concerto for Heinz Holliger, and works for the clarinettist Eduard Brunner.
  • He also composed a sonata for alto saxophone and piano by Jean -Marie Londeix.
  • His Requiem was based on a in several languages ​​( English, French, German and Latin) text drafted by Francisco Tanzer and was premiered in Hamburg in 1980.
  • 1986 opera L' Écume des Jours. Text: Boris Vian. UA: 1986, Opéra Comique, Paris. DEA: 1991, Gelsenkirchen.
  • In 1993 he presented the opera Rodrigue et Chimène by Claude Debussy finished.
  • In 1996, Helmuth Rilling Denisov's completion of Schubert's oratorio " Lazarus " on CD.

Film Music

  • Golubaya chashka (1964 )
  • Lebedev protiv Lebedeva (1965 )
  • Chyornyy biznes (1965 )
  • The Scout (1967 )
  • The Scarlet Flower (1978 )
  • Bezymyannaya zvezda (1978 )
  • Fevralskiy fathers (1981 )
  • Idealnyy muzh (1982 )
  • U opasnoy cherty (1983 )
  • Dvazhdy rozhdyonnyy (1983)
  • Well okraine, gde -to v gorode ... (1988 )
  • Piry Valtasara, ili still so Stalinym (1989 )
  • Nochevala tuchka zolotaya ... (1989 )
  • Samoubiytsa (1990)
  • Iskushenie B. ( 1990)
  • Prischwins paper eyes ( 1990)
  • Tsarskaya okhota (1991 )
  • Eeks vernaya zhena (1992 )
  • Anomaliya (1993)
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