Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov -Ivanov (Russian: Михаил Михайлович Ипполитов - Иванов, scientific transliteration Mikhail Michajlovič Ippolitov - Ivanov; * 7 Novemberjul / November 19 1859greg in Gatchina near St. Petersburg, .. † January 28, 1935 in Moscow) was a Russian composer and conductor.

Vita

Ippolitov -Ivanov, the son of a craftsman, was born as Mikhail Mikhailovich Ivanov. In 1881 he took his mother's name as a middle name, to distinguish them from an older composer. From 1872 to 1875 he was a chorister at St. Petersburg's St. Isaac's Cathedral. 1875 was followed by a study of composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Rimsky -Korsakov, which he graduated in 1882 with great success. In the same year moved Ippolitov -Ivanov to Tbilisi, where he was director of the music school, which soon transformed into a conservatory, and directed the concerts of the Russian Musical Society. In 1893 he left Tbilisi and became a professor of composition at the Moscow Conservatory. From 1905 to 1922 he was director of this institute; his teaching, he continued to the end of his life. In 1924 Ippolitov -Ivanov was again for a year director of the Conservatory in Tbilisi, from the following year he conducted the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre. He also joined with musicological writings produced (about across the Georgian folk song ). Among his many pupils are Gliere, Sergei Vasilenko and Zachary Paliashvili.

Style

Ippolitov -Ivanov was oriented in his work clearly to his teacher Rimsky -Korsakov. This suggests V.A. to down in the brilliant orchestration and symphonic treatment of folk song themes. Also, the same age as Alexander Glazunov was close Ippolitov -Ivanov. Even more than this, however, he took advantage of folklore as the basis of his work. Here he focused not only on Russian folklore, but put his attention due to his eleven-year stay in Tbilisi especially on the Caucasian folk music. Later he worked intensively with the music of Turkic peoples. Ippolitov -Ivanov had a keen sense of drama and sensational plot twists and was a pronounced orchestral composer. His harmonies remained firmly rooted in the Russian National Romanticism and shows no interest in musical innovations. In the Soviet Union, he was actively involved in the reorganization of musical life. When in 1932 the " Socialist Realism " was proclaimed as a doctrine music, he was one of the staunchest supporters of this ideology, as this conception of art was almost identical with his own. Ippolitov -Ivanov was certainly not an innovator, but his compositions demonstrate superior craftsmanship and sense of effects.

Works (selection)

  • Orchestral works Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op 46 (1907 )
  • Symphony No. 2 in Karelia (1935 )
  • Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op 10 (1894 )
  • Iveria, Suite No. 2, Op 42 (1894 /95)
  • Turkish fragments, Suite No. 3, Op 62 (1930 )
  • On the steppes of Turkmenistan, Suite No. 4, Op 65 (1935 )
  • Musical Images from Uzbekistan, Suite No. 5, Op 69
  • Catalan Suite Op 79
  • Jar chmel, Spring Overture, Op 1 (1881 )
  • Armenian Rhapsody, Op 48 (1895 )
  • The Mziri ( The novice ), symphonic poem after a poem by Lermontov, Op 54 (1923 /24)
  • Marches and other orchestral pieces
  • Ruth, Op 6 ( 1883-86 )
  • Asya, Op 30 (1900)
  • The Marriage Opus 70 (1931, 1st act of Mussorgsky )
  • The last barricade, Op 74 (1933 )
  • Hymn to the work op 59 for choir, orchestra and wind orchestra (1927 )
  • Cantatas
  • Sacred choral works
  • Numerous songs
  • Folksong Arrangements
  • Violin Sonata in A Major, Op 8 (1895 )
  • Piano Quartet, Op 9 (1895 )
  • String Quartet in A minor, Op 13 (1895 )
  • Theme and Variations for Piano Trio ( 1932)
  • 4 pieces on Armenian folk themes for string quartet (1933 )

A complete list of works can be found on the pages of Russian Music Archives in Hanover; in detail, however, caution is advised.

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