Askold Fyodorovich Murov

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Askold Fjodorowitsch Murow ( Russian Аскольд Фёдорович Муров , scientific transliteration Askol'd Fëdorovič Murov ; * February 5, 1928 in Pokrovsk , today Engels, Saratov Oblast , Volga-German Republic , Soviet Union ; † June 7, 1996 in Novosibirsk , Russia ) was a Russian -Soviet composer .

Life

His mother was Russian and his father was an actor of German origin at the Saratov Drama Theater . Murow's family was deported to the Siberian region of Kemerovo as part of the decree on the resettlement of the Volga Germans in 1941 after the German Wehrmacht invaded the Soviet Union . Askold Murow initially had a two-pronged education: he studied from 1946 to an engineering diploma in 1951 at the State University of Architecture and Construction in Novosibirsk , and from 1948 to 1951 he completed an apprenticeship at the city's music college. In what was then Stalinsk he worked as a civil engineer until 1958. At the same time he wrote music for the theater and began to study choral conducting at the conservatory in Novosibirsk , which opened in 1956, and composition with Matwei Gosenpud from 1958. Works by him were already performed during his studies - a. a. the ballet suite Moidodyr ( Мойдодыр ) in Moscow. He completed his studies in 1962 with the 1st Symphony (1961). During this time he met Dmitri Shostakovich , who promoted him artistically and to whom he later dedicated his symphony Tobolsk ( Тобольская ).

From 1962 Murow taught at the Conservatory in Novosibirsk, from 1968 as a lecturer, from 1983 as a professor and from 1984 to 1987 as head of the composition department. From 1965 to 1970 he was also chairman of the Siberian composers' association and took part in delegation trips to Switzerland, the former GDR, Romania and Poland.

Despite a series of works that conformed to the system, Murow was also reprimanded as a formalist , initially because of his 3rd Symphony (1968). The conflicts intensified and he resigned as chairman of the composers' association in 1970. His 1971 symphony on the history of Tobolsk , one of the oldest Russian cities in Siberia, was also criticized. Murow and his wife were sent to what was then North Vietnam in 1971/72 to do musical development work in Hanoi . He dealt with the music of the country, processed these impressions compositionally and received several awards on site. After his return he dealt with Orthodox Christianity , processed biblical topics, wrote literary books and continued to compose for all genres, including satirical works such as the opera Veliki Kombinator ( Великий Комбинатор , 1983–1986) after Ilf and Petrow . In 1984 Murow was again chairman of the Siberian Composers' Union and remained so until his death in 1996. The Novosibirsk Music College, which he graduated from at a young age, was named after him in 2006.

Murow's work is characterized by the variety of genres. His main work was eleven symphonies, six of which were numbered. He is considered the first Siberian symphonic composer and the founder of the Siberian school of composers. In addition to other orchestral works, he also wrote an opera, an oratorio, ballets, choral works, song cycles as well as theater and film music. Shostakovich's influences were still evident in early compositions, and in the further course of the thaw period he approached the Soviet avant-garde of the time. He experimented polystylistically with western-modern musical languages ​​such as atonality , neoclassicism , neo-folklorism and jazz , and occasionally used electronics from tape. From the 1980s he began to process Old Russian chants and also wrote “Spiritual Concerts” and liturgical works; in the symphonic style, he increasingly turned to a sacred neo-romanticism.

Awards

  • 1983: Honored Artist of the RSFSR
  • 1990: Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR

Works

  • Moidodyr ( Мойдодыр ), ballet, 1960
  • 1st symphony , 1961
  • 2nd Symphony , Symphony Ballet , 1962
  • Cycle of poetic images for voice and piano based on words by Johannes R. Becher , 1962
  • From Siberian folk poetry , choir cycle, 1963
  • The wise things ( Умные вещи ), musical comedy based on Samuil Marschak , 1965
  • Insomnia of the Century ( Бессонница века ), Oratorio, 1966
  • 3rd symphony , 1968
  • Lenin in Shushenskoye , poem for orchestra, 1969
  • Voices of the Revolution ( Голоса Революции ) for soloists, choir and orchestra, radio recitation , 1970
  • Tobolsk Symphony ( Тобольская ) for soloists, choir and orchestra based on historical sources, psalms and texts etc. a. by Velimir Khlebnikov , 1971
  • 4th Symphony , Stereophonia , 1974
  • Two impressions of Vietnam for string ensemble, 1974
  • Dessjatyje gody ( Десятые годы ), cycle for voice and piano based on words by Alexander Blok , 1975
  • Autumn symphony ( Осенняя ) for folk instrument orchestra, 1978
  • 5th Symphony , 1981
  • Veliki Kombinator ( Великий Комбинатор ), opera based on Ilf and Petrow (1983–1986)
  • Symphony for Strings, 1986
  • Symphony for winds and percussion, 1988
  • 6th Symphony , 1991

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Lada Leonidowna Pylnewa: Murow, Askold Fjodorowitsch. In: Istoritscheskaja enziklopedija Sibiri. 2013 (Russian).;
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Lada Leonidowna Pylnewa: Askold Murow. (Russian).
  3. ↑ On his 80th birthday ( memento from January 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on: nmkmurov (Russian); other sources, such as nsglinka.ru , give the year 2002
  4. ↑ a b c Boris Yoffe : In the flow of the symphonic . Wolke, Hofheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-95593-059-2 , pp. 401-404 .
  5. ↑ Askold Murov on phil-nsk 2016 (English)
  6. ↑ CV and work overview in musiqueclassique (French)
  7. ↑ Biography and literature in: Biblioteka sibirskogo krajewedenija (Russian); other sources, such as nsglinka.ru , name 1973
personal data
SURNAME Murow, Askold Fyodorowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Муров, Аскольд Фёдорович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Pokrovsk , today Engels, Saratov Oblast , Volga German Republic , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1996
Place of death Novosibirsk