Alexander Wassiljewitsch Sveshnikov

Alexander Wasiljewitsch Sveshnikov (1946)

Alexander Vasilievich Sveshnikov ( Russian Александр Васильевич Свешников ; born August 30, ^jul. / 11. September  1890 ^greg. In Kolomna , † 3. January 1980 in Moscow ) was a Russian conductor and choirmaster .

Life

Alexander Vasilyevich Sveshnikov completed his training in 1913 at the Music Theater College of the Moscow Philharmonic Society (now the Russian Academy of Theater Arts ), where he had studied with Arseni Nikolayevich Koreschtschenko and Vasily Sergejewitsch Kalinnikow . Since 1906 he had also studied at the People's Conservatory with Boleslaw Leopoldowitsch Jaworski .

From 1909 Sveshnikov worked as a choir director in Moscow schools and taught singing. 1921–1923 he directed a choir in Poltava . From 1913 he directed a factory workers choir. Soon he was one of the most famous church choir conductors in Moscow. 1923–1928 he headed the vocal department of the 1st studio of the Moscow Art Theater . 1928–1936 he led the vocal ensemble (later choir) of the Allunions Radio, which he founded. He was artistic director of the State Choir of the USSR (1936–1937 and again from 1941) and the Leningrad Chapel (1937–1941). 1941–1944 during the war he also headed the vocal department of the ensemble of the Ministry of the Interior .

In 1944 Svezhnikov organized the Moscow Choir Academy , on the basis of which the choir conductor Viktor Sergejewitsch Popow founded the Choir Art Academy . 1944–1974 he taught at the Moscow Conservatory : 1944–1948 he was dean of the choir-conducting faculty, in 1946 he was appointed professor, and in 1948 he was appointed rector, as the composer Vissarion Jakowlewitsch in the course of the music-ideological pogrom in 1948 Shebalin was accused of formalism and removed from office. In 1950 Sveshnikov joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and remained rector until 1978.

Sveshnikov was the chief conductor of a number of Moscow song festivals. He was the organizer and until 1964 chairman of the All-Russian Choral Society . In 1966, 1970 and 1974 he was a member of the jury of the International Tchaikovsky Competition for the vocal arts.

Sveshnikov is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery. He was married and had no children. After his death, he founded were Moscow Choir College and the Children's Choir School of the city Kolomna named after him. In 1981 a double-deck cruise ship was baptized in his name, which sailed on the Volga , Kama and Oka . For his 125th birthday, there was an exhibition in the foyer of the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in 2015.

Honors

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1940, 1950)
• Stalin Prize 2nd class (1946)
• People's Artist of the USSR (1956)
• Order of Lenin (1960, 1966, 1970)
• Glinka State Prize (1967)
• Hero of Socialist Labor (1970)
• Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music ( Great Britain )

literature

• Heroes of the Country: Sveshnikov Alexander (accessed December 16, 2015)
• B. Tewlin : A master of the art of choir . Musykalnaja Schisn 1962 No. 5 (Russian).
• K. Ptiza: A great Russian talent . Sowjetskja Musyka 1965 N. 10 (Russian).
• W. Podolskaja, K. Ptiza (eds.): AW Sweschnikow, collected essays . Moscow 1970 (Russian).
• In memory of Alexander Wasiljewitsch Sveshnikov, essays, memories . Moscow 1998, 328 pages, ISBN 5-7140-0654-2 (Russian).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bogorodsk-Noginsker Biographisches Lexikon: Sweschnikow Alexander Wasiljewitsch (Russian, accessed on December 16, 2015)
2. ↑ Lance G. Hill: Alexander Sveshnikov, Russian choral conductor (accessed December 17, 2015)
3. ↑ Alexander Wasiljewitsch Sveshnikov (Russian, accessed December 16, 2015)
4. ↑ River Boat Alexander Sveshnikov (accessed December 17, 2015)

Web links

Commons : Alexandr Svechnikov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Alexander Wassiljewitsch Sweschnikow in the catalog of the German National Library