Yuri Khanon

Yuri Khanon, (Russian Юрий Ханон ) actually Yuri Solovyov Felixowitsch - Sawojarow; ( Born June 16, 1965 in Leningrad ) is a Russian composer and winner of the Felix for best music and the Russian Nika price of 1988.

Life

1988 graduated Khanon spite of the opposition of conservative educators, the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in composition and music theory. When his role models and teachers he mentions particularly the composer Aleksander Scriabin and Erik Satie. He is the grandson of Mikhail Sawojarow, one acting in the pre-revolutionary Petrograd artists, eccentrics and composers. Yuri Khanon is not only a composer, he also works as a writer, painter, philosopher, Studio pianist and as a botanist and plant breeders.

1988-1991, he wrote the music for three films, concerts, stepped on television and in the press with a series of articles and interviews. Often, his performances were accompanied by scandals. The greatest response had the music concerts of the dogs (Moscow, 1 to 4 December 1988) and Dried embryos ( Leningrad, May 1991).

In 1992, the performance and recording of biographical opera The Chagrinknochen ( director Igor Bezrukov ) by the St. Petersburg Studio for Documentary Films. The main role was played by the author himself The British label Olympia produced a CD with some symphonies of Khanon: Five smallest orgasms, A certain Concerto ( for piano and orchestra ), and his The mean symphony.

" ... This record presents three of Khanons compositions, which all have different goals: five smallest orgasms, oc. 29 (1986 ) was written as a direct response to Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy ... A certain Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, oc. 31 (1987 ) was written in the genre of the wrong concert, where the audience is continually deceived by its expectations will be crowned with "emptiness". The theme of deception is one of the main characteristics of artistic creation Khanons ... Medium symphony, oc.40 (1990 ) with a text by the composer is a large, very extraordinary work with a rather unnatural and artificial structure. It ends with a canon in which the three singers sing the same text 81 bars long backwards. The text is very abstruse, in fact almost absurd; it requires that one 's impression of the whole symphony, which you have just heard, were overturned ... - Exhausted this discussion the topic of this panel? I do not know - I doubt it. "

This CD is the only published by the author CD. He has not released more than ten other CDs. After 1992, Yuri Khanon ended all public appearances and publications of his music and focused on the work " in the company of themselves."

1996-1999 took Yuri Khanon as a piano player for more than 15 unpublished CDs, among which three preludes by Scriabin, a CD with the leaden music by Satie as well as five custom programs are emphasized. Among the theater performances the ballet in one act The Middle duet best known (first part of the Middle Symphony ), which was listed in this Mariinsky Theatre in 1998. It was in 2000 nominated Golden Mask for the price.

1988-1992 made ​​famous by film, television and with a series of concerts in Russia, Yuri Khanon withdrew from public life in 1993.

Works

Ballet

• One step forward - two backward ( oc.24, 1986, after the article by Vladimir Lenin),
• Os de Chagrin ( The Chagrinknochen, ru « Шагреневая Кость " oc.37, 1989, after the novel by Honoré de Balzac The Magic Skin )
• The Nussknatter ( ru « Трескунчик " oc.43, 1990, after the ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky " The Nutcracker ")
• Sigelle ( ru « Зижель " oc.55, 1993, after the ballet Giselle by Adolphe Adam ).

Operas

• Os de Chagrin ( The Chagrinknochen, ru « Шагреневая Кость " oc.38, 1990, break - opera from the ballet )
• The dull life ( ru « Тусклая жизнь " oc.54, 1993, to a libretto by Khanon )
• The standard ( oc.59, 1995, opera omonima, after the opera by Vincenzo Bellini, Norma),
• La forza del destino ( oc.65, 1997, opera incognita, Force of Destiny, on the opera by Giuseppe Verdi, La forza del destino ),
• What Spake Zarathustra " ( ru Что сказал Заратустра, oc.68, 1998 klerikalisches Singspiel (or a church operetta ) after the Great Book for All and None by Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Libretto by Yuri Khanon spoke ).

Orchestral works

• Symphony of Dogs ( oc.35, 1989)
• Mean Symphony ( oc.40, 1990)
• Three Extreme symphonies ( oc.60, 1996)
• Laughing Symphony ( oc.70, 1999) and five-hour orchestral frescoes People umblätternd, Inside Requiem, mystery Agonia Dei and a lot of other symphonic, chamber music and piano works.

Movies

Yuri Khanon worked from 1988 to 1991 at the cinema. He wrote his first work (days of darkness, film director Alexander Sokurov ) while still a student of the Conservatory.

On the first ceremony ( November 1988 West Berlin) this film won the Special Prize of the European Film Academy ( " Felix ") for the best music in the cinema. Despite the great success, Yuri Khanon returned after 1991 " no longer work at the theater and cinema " back.

Literary works

As an essayist and man of letters Yuri Khanon works since 1983. Memories from his novel " Scriabin as the public face " (1995 ) was created as an " elitist " object of book art. The novel contains personal recollections of the author who was known to the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin twenty years. The language and style are light, they are based on the total handling - and literary language of the first decade of the 20th century.