Anna Jan-Ruban

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anna Mikhailovna Jan-Ruban ( Russian Анна Михайловна Ян-Рубан ) is the pseudonym of Anna Mikhailovna Petrunkewitsch ( Russian Анна Михайловна Петрункевич * 1874 in Tver , † 4. October 1955 in Paris ), a Russian soprano and singing teacher .

Life

Anna, daughter of the doctor and politician Michail Petrunkewitsch and his wife Lyubow Gawrilowna née Wulf and niece of the lawyer and politician Ivan Petrunkewitsch , received music training in Yalta and then studied in Berlin with Etelka Gerster together with Lotte Lehmann . As Anna Jan-Ruban she then performed in Moscow in the Association of Lovers of Russian Music . She became very well known through her appearances with Wladimir Pohl as a piano accompanist in music salons in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Paris . She sang the works of Georgi Catoire and Nikolai Medtner . According to Felix Jussupov's memories , Jan-Ruban and Pohl were often guests in the palace of Countess Sofja Panina in Mishor (on the south coast of the Crimea between Yalta and Alupka ), where politicians and artists met.

In the revolutionary year of 1917 , Pohl and Jan-Ruban moved to the Crimea. They gave concerts with great success , including in front of the Red Guards . Jan-Ruban sang songs by Schubert , Tschaikowski , Debussy and also by Pohl. In 1922 Pohl and Jan-Ruban emigrated to Berlin via Constantinople . In 1923 Jan-Ruban performed there in a concert by Nikolai Medtner. From 1924 she lived with Pohl in Paris. It participated in the concerts of Russian symphony orchestra under the direction L. Maslowskis, the concerts of the Russian Musical Society abroad (RMOS), the singing evenings Alexander Grechaninov (1926) and the Paris days of Russian culture (1929). Her first Parisian solo concert took place in 1928 in the Salle Chopin of the Salle Pleyel . In the 1930s Jan-Ruban was professor of the opera class of the Russian Conservatory in Paris , founded in 1923 by professors from the St. Petersburg and Moscow Conservatories , the first director of which was Prince Sergei Volkonsky . In 1934 she joined the board of directors and then the management of RMOS. In 1950 she worked in the Provisional Committee for the Administration of the Russian Conservatory. She spent her last years in the Russian House in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (Essonne)

Jan-Ruban found her grave in the Russian cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois , in which Vladimir Pohl was also buried. The Russian Conservatory and RMOS donated the Jan Ruban Prize for free singing studies at the Russian Conservatory.

Anna Jan-Ruban's older sister was the historian Alexandra Michailowna Petrunkewitsch (1873-1965). Her cousin was the arachnologist and poet Alexander Ivanovich Petrunkevich with the pseudonym Alexandr Jan-Ruban .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Anna Mikhaylovna Petrunkevich Rouban-Pohl on findagrave.com (accessed on June 22, 2017).
  2. ↑ Андреев А .: Владимир Иванович Поль . In: Возрождение . No. 128 , 1962.
  3. ↑ Мищенко А. А .: В. И. Поль . In: Вест. РСХД . No. 65 , 1962.
  4. ↑ Vladimir Ivanovich Pohl on findagrave.com (accessed June 22, 2017).
  5. ↑ Н. Сизов Н. И .: Воспоминания о Н. К. Метнере. In: Н. К. Метнер: Статьи. Материалы. Воспоминания . Moscow 1918, p. 121 .
  6. ↑ Князь Феликс Юсупов: Мемуары . Захаров, Moscow 2011, ISBN 978-5-8159-1045-4 , p. 437 .
personal data
SURNAME Jan-Ruban, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jan-Ruban, Anna Michailowna; Ян-Рубан, Анна Михайловна (Russian); Petrunkewitsch, Anna Mikhailovna; Петрункевич, Анна Михайловна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian soprano and vocal teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Tver
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1955
Place of death Paris