Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko

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Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko , Russian Александр Александрович Давиденко (born April 1 . Jul / 13. April  1899 greg. In Odessa , Russian Empire , died 1. May 1934 in Moscow ) was a Russian composer.

Life

Alexander Dawidenko grew up in poor conditions and was therefore given to a church seminary as a child. In 1918/19 he studied at the Odessa Conservatory with Witold Maliszewski and made his first attempts at composition. In 1919 he took part in the civil war as a Red Army soldier . In 1921/22 he studied at the Kharkov Music Institute, then until 1929 at the Moscow Conservatory with Reinhold Glière . He studied with Alexander Kastalsky at both the Conservatory and the Moscow Choir Academy. After completing his studies, he was an aspirant at the Moscow Conservatory from 1929 to 1932 .

In 1923, Davidenko worked as a music educator in a home for homeless children. From 1924 he worked regularly with various workers' choirs, including since 1930 with the Nogin Choir. In 1925, Dawidenko took part in an expedition to Chechnya , where he wrote about 100 songs and dances; He arranged 30 of them for piano (1926) and later used this material. In 1925 he set to music the poem On the back of tired horses Red Regiment by Nikolai Assejew , which gained a certain popularity.

In 1925, Dawidenko and other students founded PROKOLL, a production collective of composition students at the Moscow Conservatory, which he directed with Wiktor Bely and Boris Schechter until 1929 . In 1927 they produced the music for the play Der Weg des Oktober as a composers collective . Davidenko became a member of the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians (RAPM) in 1929.

Dawidenko composed primarily choral works and mass songs, his second opera was completed posthumously by Schechter.

Tombstone in the Novodevichy Cemetery

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  1. ↑ Proizvodstvennyj kollektiv studentov-kompozitorov Moskovskoj konservatorii
  2. ↑ Dieter Lehrmann:  Belyj, Viktor Arkad'evic. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 2 (Bagatti - Bizet). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1112-8 , Sp. 1037-1038 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  3. ↑ Dorothea Redepenning : "Learning from the classics". Bolshevik understanding of culture and the consequences for serious music in the Soviet Union , in: Igor Narskij (Hrsg.): Hochkultur für das Volk? : Literature, art and music in the Soviet Union from a cultural-historical perspective . Munich: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2018 ISBN 9783110561302 , pp. 117f.
personal data
SURNAME Davidenko, Alexander Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Давиденко, Александр Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1934
Place of death Moscow