Sergei Bortkiewicz

Sergei Bortkiewicz Eduardovich (born 16 Februarjul / February 28 1877greg in Kharkov, .. † October 25, 1952 in Vienna) was a Ukrainian composer.

Career

Bortkiewicz studied from 1896 to 1899 in Saint Petersburg in Karl von Arek and Anatoli Ljadow and then to 1902 in Leipzig by Alfred travel Auer, Karl Piutti and Salomon Jadassohn. From 1904 to 1914 he lived in Berlin, where he taught one year at the Klindworth - Scharwenka Conservatory and from where he undertook concert tours throughout Europe. After the outbreak of the First World War, he returned to Russia.

Before the Russian Revolution, he fled to his estate Artemovka in Kharkov. After plundered by the Red Army, he went to Sevastopol, where he succeeded in 1920 to escape to Istanbul. In 1922 he moved to Vienna. 1928-1933 he lived in Berlin again. After the so-called seizure of power by the National Socialists, he returned to Vienna. He died in Vienna in 1952 and was buried in a grave dedicated to him honorary at Vienna's Central Cemetery (30A -3 -5).

Bortkiewicz composed an opera, two symphonies, three piano, a cello and a violin concerto, a symphonic poem, several suites, a piano and a violin sonata and numerous piano pieces.

Bortkiewicz translated letters of Tchaikovsky to Mrs. von Meck in a selection into German, which were published under the title The strange love Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck.

Works

  • Opus 1 Piano Concerto
  • Op 2 Six Songs for voice and piano ( after poems by Emmy Destinn Erna Heinemann and Heinrich Heine )
  • Four Pieces for Piano, Op 3
  • Opus 4 Impressions (7 Piano Pieces )
  • Op 5 " Minuit " Two Piano Pieces
  • Three Piano Pieces, Op 6
  • Two Piano Pieces, Op 7
  • Op 8 Esquisses de Crimée
  • Op 9 Piano Sonata in B major ( two hands)
  • Four Pieces for Piano, Op 10
  • Opus 11 Six pensées lyriques ( for piano, two hands)
  • Opus 12 Piano Pieces
  • Op 13 Six Preludes ( two hands)
  • Op 14 of Childhood (6 Easy Piano Pieces for the Young )
  • Op 15 Ten Etudes for piano ( two hands)
  • Op 16 Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Op 17 lamentations and Consolationen ( piano works )
  • Op 18 Piano Pieces
  • Op 19 Othello. Symphonic Poem. 1914
  • Op.20 Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra in a sentence
  • Op 21 The little walkers. 18 miniatures for piano ( two hands)
  • Op 22 Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra
  • Op 23 Seven Poems of Paul Verlaine ( song cycle )
  • Op 24 Trois morceaux ( for piano, two hands)
  • Op 25 Three Pieces for Cello and Piano
  • Op 26 Sonata in G minor for violin and piano
  • Op 27 Three Waltzes ( for piano, two hands)
  • Op 28 Piano Concerto No. 2 ( for the left hand )
  • Op 29 Douze Etudes nouvelles " illustrées " ( Twelve new etudes for piano, two hands)
  • Op 30 Musical picture book. From Andersen's Fairy Tales ( for piano, two hands)
  • Op 31 Russian ways and Dances ( for piano, four hands )
  • Op 32 Per aspera ad astra. Piano Concerto No. 3 in a set with orchestra
  • Ten Preludes, Op 33
  • Op 34 Dreams ( Nox erat - Caelo et fulgebat luna serena ) '. A Night Piece for Orchestra ( Symphonic Fantasy for Large Orchestra )
  • Op 35 A Novel ( piano works )
  • Op 36 Sonata for Cello and Piano
  • Op 37 Arabian Nights ( ballet, 1916)
  • Op 39 childhood. 14 Easy Pieces ( for piano) based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy
  • Seven Preludes, Op 40
  • Op 42 Ballade ( piano works )
  • Op 43 Hafez songs
  • Elegy Op 46 ( piano works )
  • Op 48 Piano Pieces
  • Op 50 acrobats (Opera, 1938)
  • Op 51 Austrian Suite for String Orchestra. 1939
  • Symphony No. 1, Op 52
  • Overture, Op 53
  • Op 54 Piano Pieces
  • Op 55 Symphony No. 2
  • Op 56 In The Park. Song cycle for voice and piano ( seal Curt Böhme )
  • Joyous Suite for Orchestra, Op 57
  • Op 58 Yugoslav Suite
  • Op 59 Lyrica Nova ( piano works )
  • Op 60 Piano Sonata in C sharp major
  • Op 61 Fantasy Pieces
  • Op 62 Star Flight of the heart. Seven songs based on texts by Grete Körber for voice and piano
  • Op 63 Suite for Violin and Piano
  • Three Mazurkas, Op 64
  • Op 65 Four Pieces for Piano
  • Op 66 Preludes
  • Op 67 Four Songs for Voice and Piano (Author: Joseph Bubl )
  • Op 68 Tom Sayer 's Adventure
  • Op 69 Three Songs on poems by Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Op 70 Cinq Esquisses de femmes
  • Op 71 Three melodramas
  • Op 72 songs
  • Op 73 songs
  • Op 74 songs

Papers

  • Autographs of Sergei Bortkiewicz are held by the music publisher Hans C. Sikorski KG in the Saxon State Archive in Leipzig.
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