Alexander Derenikowitsch Mnazakanyan

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Alexander Dere Nikowitsch Mnazakanjan ( Russian Александр Дереникович Мнацаканян ., Scientific transliteration Aleksandr Derenikovič Mnacakanjan ; Armenian Ալեքսանդր Մնացականյան ; *  3. September 1936 in Yerevan , Armenian SSR , †  8. January 2013 in Saint Petersburg , Russia ) was an Armenian -sowjetischer composer .

Life

After attending the Tchaikovsky Music School in Yerevan in violin, he studied composition with Orest Jewlachow and violin with Juli Ilyich Ejdlin and Boris Gutnikow at the Leningrad Conservatory until 1961 . Then he completed an aspirantur in 1964 - as one of the last students of Dmitri Shostakovich .

From 1965 he taught himself at the Leningrad Conservatory, from 1973 as dean, from 1988 as professor and from 1992 as head of the composition and improvisation departments. In 1997 he and Boris Tishchenko were the focus of the Educational Bridge Project , a Russian-American exchange program between the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and Boston University .

Along with Boris Tishchenko and Sergei Slonimski, Mnazakanjan is considered an “important representative of the Leningrad School”. His students included u. a. the composer Mehdi Hosseini and the pianist Sergei Redkin .

He composed three symphonies, further orchestral works, concerts, chamber music, choral, piano, organ and film music, for example for the German-Soviet literary film adaptation of Black Rusk (1972). Stylistically, he combined the meditative with the drama, linked the influences of traditional Armenian music with European modernism.

Awards

literature

  • Daria Varul: Alexander Mnatsakanian: an update portrait . In: Musicus . No. 1 . Saint Petersburg 2014 (Russian, conservatory.ru [PDF; accessed October 1, 2019]).

Web links

annotation

  1. ↑ Mnazakanjan lived three quarters of his life in the former Soviet Union. He is therefore referred to in most sources as an Armenian-Soviet composer.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography on kino-teatr (Russian)
  2. ↑ Laurel E. Fay: Shostakovich: A Life . Oxford University Press, New York 2000, ISBN 978-0-19-513438-4 (English, full text in Google Book Search).
  3. ↑ Obituary for sanktpeterburg.bezformata (Russian)
  4. ↑ Educational Bridge Project - History (English)
  5. ↑ Boris Yoffe : In the flow of the symphonic . Wolke, Hofheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-95593-059-2 , pp. 503 .
  6. ↑ Alexander Mnazakanyan. In: Sankt Peterburgski Musikalnij Vestnik. March 4, 2013, Retrieved October 1, 2019 (Russian, obituary).
  7. ↑ Acknowledgment of Mnazakanyan's 80th birthday on old.conservatory (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Mnazakanjan, Alexander Derenikowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Мнацаканян, Александр Дереникович (Russian); Ալեքսանդր Մնացականյան (Armenian); Mnazakanjan, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian-Soviet composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Yerevan
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2013
Place of death St. Petersburg