Arseni Mikhailovich Avraamov

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Arseni Avraamow (ca.1920)

Arseni Mikhailovich Awraamow ( Russian Арсений Михайлович Авраамов ), actually Krasnokutski ( Russian Краснокутский ; born April 10 . Jul / 22. April  1886 greg. In Novocherkassk ; † 19th May 1944 in Moscow ) was a Russian composer and music theorist of the avant-garde .

Live and act

In 1908 Avraamov began his music studies at the Moscow Conservatory , but he had to drop out for financial reasons. A short time later, a scholarship enabled him to continue his studies in composition and piano at the school of the Moscow Philharmonic Society with Protopopov and Arseni Koreshchenko , which he successfully completed in 1911. In the early 1910s he worked as a music critic under the pseudonym Ars for a music publisher. After the outbreak of World War I , he fled abroad and earned his living as a stoker and circus artist. After returning to Russia in 1917/18 he worked as art commissioner at the People's Commissariat for Education (Narkompros) and as a co-organizer of the Proletkult movement.

In 1918 he began to compose a symphony of the factory sirens Simfonija Gudkow , which he completed in 1921. He performed this symphony on the fifth anniversary of the October Revolution on November 7, 1922 in Baku and a year later in Moscow. Alexei Gastew from the futuristic scene in St. Petersburg provided the inspiration for this . Avraamow built numerous new musical instruments, such as the string polychoir , and in 1926, as part of his dissertation, developed his own universal tone system of 48 tones Universalnaja sistema tonow , for which he also composed symphonies from the thunder of cannons , crashing planes, military marches and other elements. In the late 1920s he demonstrated his compositions in Berlin , Frankfurt am Main and Stuttgart . Avraamov also dealt with microtonal music, and in 1929 he was probably the first to generate the sound for a film directly by marking on the sound track (Institute for Scientific Research). From 1934 Avraamow taught history and theory of sound systems at the Moscow Conservatory .

In his final years, Avraamov lived in Nalchik , Kabardino-Balkaria , where he collected folk music of the peoples of the Caucasus , he wrote some compositions on the basis of these materials.

literature

  • Arsenij Avraamov: Universelles Tonsystem (UTS) , translated by Hans-Joachim Schlegel, in: acoustic turn , ed. by Petra Maria Meyer . Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2008, pp. 375–379 ISBN 978-3-7705-4389-2
  • Arseni Avraamov: The Symphony of Sirens , Kahn, Douglas and Whitehead, Gregory, eds. Wireless Imagination: Cambridge, MA and London (1992)
  • Arseni Avraamov: Klin-Klinom (one wedge drives the other), in: Muzykalnaja Kultura, Moscow I / 1924 (therein explanation of his new sound system)
  • Detlef Gojowy: New Soviet Music of the 20s , Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1980. ISBN 3-921518-09-1
  • Hans-Joachim Schlegel: From visual sounds to audiovisual counterpoint. Sound concepts and experiments of the Soviet film avant-garde , in: acoustic turn , ed. by Petra Maria Meyer. Munich: Wilhelm Fink 2008, pp. 509-539 ISBN 978-3-7705-4389-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Avraamov, Arsenij Michajlovič. In: MGG Online (subscription required).
  2. ↑ Information at biografija.ru
personal data
SURNAME Avraamow, Arseni Michailowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krasnokutski, Arseni Michailowitsch (real name); Krasnokutskij, Arsenij Michajlovich; Avraamow, Arsenij Michailowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian composer and avant-garde music theorist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Novocherkassk
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1944
Place of death Moscow