Alexander Wassiljewitsch Nikolski

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Alexander Nikolski

Alexander Vasilyevich Nikolsky ( Russian Александр Васильевич Никольский ., Scientific transliteration Aleksandr Vasil'evič Nikol'skii , even Alexander Vasilievich Nikolsky , born on June 22 . Jul / 4. July  1874 greg. In Wladykino, Penza province , died 19th March 1943 in Moscow ) was a Russian composer, choir director and educator.

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Nikolsky first completed a spiritual training as a priest, he graduated from the Moscow Synodal School in 1896 and continued his musical training the following year at the Moscow Conservatory . After the October Revolution , Nikolsky was active in the proletarian cult as an author of proletarian songs and also engaged in ethnographic work. In 1928 he became a teacher at the choral department of the Moscow Conservatory, where he worked until his death (since 1935 as a professor).

Nikolsky played a prominent role in the development of choral arts in Russia. He wrote many sacred works. In his secular choral works he set texts by A. Puschkin , H. Heine (translations by P. Bykow, M. Michailow, P. Weinberg, N. Berg, M. Prachow), M. Rosenheim , A. Koltonowski, K. Balmont , N. Schreiter, M. Lermontow , A. Kolzow , S. Gorodezki . They were recently included in the anthology of Russian secular a cappella choral music from the 19th to the early 20th centuries (Volume 16).

On his 135th birthday, the student choir of the Moscow Conservatory under Stanislav Kalinin dedicated a memorial concert to him.

Nikolsky is buried in Moscow's Pyatnitskoye Cemetery (Пятницкое кладбище).

Recently Lyudmila Viktorovna Malazai has been researching the life and work of Nikolsky.

Works (selection)

see. Sheet music and audio files by Alexander Wassiljewitsch Nikolski in the International Music Score Library Project

  • All-Night Vigil, Op.26 sound samples
  • From My Youth, Op.51
  • Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op.31 sound samples
  • Minuet in A major, Op.43 No.3
  • 4 Pieces for Piano and Winds, Op.40
  • 2 Pieces for String Trio, Op.42
  • Praise Ye the Name of the Lord
  • 4 Russian Songs, Op.27

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. Table of contents for Антология хоровой музыки a cappella. Вып. 16. Никольский (with some music examples) (Russian)
  2. ↑ Sound example: Nyne otpuschtschajeschi, Op. 17 ; Mnogoletstvowanije, Op. 52 (student choir of the Moscow Conservatory, conductor: Stanislaw Kalinin)

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personal data
SURNAME Nikolski, Alexander Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Александр Васильевич Никольский (Russian); Alexander Vasilievich Nikolsky
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian composer and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Vladykino , Chembar , Penza Oblast
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1943
Place of death Moscow