Mikhaïl Nossyrev

Mikhail Iosifovich Nossyrew (Russian: Михаил Иосифович Носырев; born May 28, 1924 in Leningrad, † March 28, 1981 in Voronezh ) was a Russian composer.

Life

A native of Cossack family Nossyrew - the father was a conductor and died in 1929 - began in 1941 to study music at the Conservatory of Leningrad.

In September 1943 Nossyrew in besieged Leningrad - from an operetta performance out where he worked as a violinist - arrested. Together with his mother and his stepfather, he was accused of counter-revolutionary agitation and sentenced to death by firing squad. The sentence was commuted to the end of 1943 for all three to 10 years prison camp. The years 1943 to 1953 in the camps of Vorkuta did not survive his stepfather, while Nossyrew and his mother survived this time. 1988, seven years after the death Nossyrews, revoked the Supreme Court of the USSR, the judgment and rehabilitated Nossyrew completely.

After his release from the prison camp Nossyrew worked as a conductor, first in Vorkuta and Syktyvkar, and from 1958 to 1981 at the Opera House in Voronezh. A membership in the Soviet Composers' Union was initially denied him and had heard only through the intercession of Dmitri Shostakovich, the works of Nossyrew (including his Symphony No. 1 ), allows 1967.

Work

Nossyrew left inter alia 4 symphonies, each a concerto for violin, cello and piano, ballet and chamber music ( including three string quartets ). His music is characterized by precise knowledge of the orchestral apparatus ( in the prison camps of Vorkuta was a copy of the Treatise on Instrumentation by Nikolai Rimsky -Korsakov, he intensively studied during his detention ). In the symphonies change - a total of more pessimistic attitude - ascetic appears, to the unanimity reduced passages with huge, menacing increases. Bizarre and grotesque sections show influences by Shostakovich.

Nossyrew was respected as a musician at its site of action Voronezh high, was not perceived as a composer during his lifetime in Moscow but barely, and internationally. Shostakovich appreciated his work (see above), and Nossyrew dedicated his Symphony No. 2 (1977 ) whose memory.