Sergei Protopopov

Sergei Vladimirovich Protopopov (Russian: Сергей Владимирович Протопопов; * 21 Märzjul / April 2 1893greg in Moscow, .. † December 14, 1954 in Moscow ) was a composer of the Russian avant-garde in the 1920s.

Life

Protopopov studied at the University of Moscow medicine, but then switched to the Conservatory Kiev, where in 1921 he made as a student of Boleslaw Jaworski its conclusion. For a time he was still working at the Conservatory Kiev and then moved to Moscow, where he worked among other things as a choral conductor at the Bolshoi Theatre. In 1930 he published a work on elements for the construction of musical language in which it, inter alia, a 72 -piece microtonal tone scale suggested. Received initial positive, came his theories in the 30s into oblivion. 1938-1943 taught Protopopov at the Moscow Conservatory.

Work

Protopopov Œeuvre comprises only 11 provided with opus numbers works ( piano compositions, songs and choruses ). The key works are his three piano sonatas (Op. 1, 1920-1922, op 5 and 6 op, 1924-1928 ). Especially in the often quoted on three staves pianistic highly demanding Sonatas Nos. 2 and 3, he employs a progressive sound, which emanates from the theories of his teacher Jaworski. They are based on tone complexes that are dominated by the tritone and approach the sound Alexander Scriabin's late work on. In places they are taktstrichlos to bird calls reminiscent passages seem at times also Olivier Messiaen to anticipate.

Steffen Schleiermacher played 2003 Protopopov's 2nd piano sonata first time on CD.