Alexander Pavlovich Nemtin

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Alexander Pawlowitsch Nemtin ( Russian Александр Павлович Немтин ; born July 13, 1936 in Perm ; † February 1, 1999 in Moscow ) was a Russian composer and was one of the pioneers of electronic music in the Soviet Union. He devoted a large part of his life to developing a performance version from sketches for Alexander Scriabin's “ Mysterium ”.

life and work

Alexander Nemtin received piano lessons at an early age and went public in 1949 with his own compositions. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Mikhail Chulaki . Since 1954 he has conducted amateur ensembles in Perm. After his studies, he worked and composed for some time from 1961 in a Moscow studio for electronic music, where the first Soviet synthesizer was located (this so-called ANS synthesizer , developed in 1958 by Yevgeny Murzin , bore his abbreviation in memory of the composer Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin ; the studio was closed in 1975 due to government pressure). In 1965 Nemtin became a member of the Russian Composers' Union. Since 1970 Nemtin has been working intensively on the sketches that Scriabin had left behind for the “ preparatory act ” (“ Acte préalable ”) of his utopian “ Mysterium ” project. By this time, Nemtin himself had presented a number of compositions, including 2 symphonies, 2 piano sonatas and several song cycles.

Nemtin's reconstruction work spanned 26 years. On the basis of the 53 sketch sheets and drafts of Scriabin's text, a three-part score was created with the titles “ Universum ”, “ Humanity ” and “ Transfiguration ”, each for a large orchestra, choir, solo piano, organ and color piano . The reconstruction of part 1 was available in 1971 (premiered 1973 in Moscow under the direction of Kirill Kondraschins ), that of the second part in 1980, that of the third part in 1996. The third part was premiered in Berlin in 1996 under the direction of Vladimir Ashkenazy . All three parts played together for the first time in 1997 in Helsinki (the Decca label released a complete recording on three CDs, conducted by Ashkenazy).

Nemtin also reconstructed a scene and aria from Scriabin's unfinished, early opera draft " Keistut und Birut " and orchestrated a ballet music " Nuances " based on 14 late piano pieces by Scriabin.

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SURNAME Nemtin, Alexander Pavlovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Немтин, Александр Павлович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Perm
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1999
Place of death Moscow