Aleksandr Spendiarjan

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Alexander Spendiarjan

Aleksandr Spendiarjan ( Armenian Ալեքսանդր Սպենդիարյան , also Russian Александр Афанасьевич Спендиаров / Alexander Afanassjevitch Spendijarow ; born October 20 . Jul / 1. November  1871 greg. In Kakhovka , Taurida Gubernia , † 7. May 1928 in Yerevan ) was an Armenian composer .

Life

Spendiarjan studied natural sciences and law in Moscow after attending the Simferopol high school from 1890 . From 1896 to 1900 he took private composition lessons with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in Saint Petersburg . He then lived in Yalta (from 1901) and Sudak (from 1916) before settling down as a teacher at the Yerevan Conservatory in 1924. He composed an opera , orchestral and choral works, cello, piano and violin pieces as well as songs based on Russian and Armenian texts. He is considered to be the founder of the independent Armenian national school in classical music. He received the Glinka Prize , donated by the music publisher Beljajew , three times . His unfinished opera Almast , supplemented by Maximilian Steinberg , was first performed in 1933 at the opening of the Armenian Opera and Ballet Theater, which is named after him.

Works (selection)

  • The Fisherman and the Fairy , Romance (1902)
  • Sketches from the Crimea (1903/1912)
  • Three Palms (1905)
  • Edelweiss in words of Maxim Gorki (1911)
  • Almast , opera based on Howhannes Tumanjan (started in 1918, unfinished)
  • Almast , symphonic suite for orchestras I (1918/23) and II (1920/24)
  • Ukrainian Suite (1921)
  • Study of Hebrew Melodies (1921)
  • Sketches from Yerevan (1925)

literature

  • Georgij Grigoŕevič Tigranov: Aleksandr Afanaševič Spendiarov . Muzyka, Moscow 1971, OCLC 250762409 (Russian, 285 pages).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. biography on musicofarmenia.com (English)
  2. a b Svetlana Sarkisyan:  Spendiaryan, Aleksandr. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 15 (Schoof - Stranz). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1135-7  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  3. a b Detailed biography on the website of the Alexander Spendiaryan House-Museum in Yerevan (English)
  4. Article Alexander Afanassjewitsch Spendiarow in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D105185~2a%3DAlexander%20Afanassjewitsch%20Spendiarow~2b%3DAlexander%20Afanassjewitsch%20Spendiarow
  5. Svetlana Sarkisyan:  Spendiaryan, Aleksandr Afanasy. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  6. Catalog raisonné at IMSLP