Boris Sergeyevich Maisel

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Boris Sergeyevich Maisel ( Russian Борис Сергеевич Майзель , scientific. Transliteration Boris Sergeevič Majzel ' , also Maizel or Mayzel ; born June 4 jul. / 17th June  1907 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 9. July 1986 in Moscow ) was a Russian - Soviet composer .

Life

Maisel, son of the physicist Sergei Ossipowitsch Maisel , studied piano at the Leningrad Conservatory from 1923 with Nikolai Ivanovich Richter, from 1932 composition with Maximilian Steinberg and Pyotr Ryazanov , graduating in 1936. During this time he also worked on satire from 1929 under the pseudonym Boris Ksentitsky Theater Krivoe Zerkalo [distorting mirror], wrote operettas and light music in the Estrada style. During the Leningrad blockade in 1941/42 he composed works dealing with survival in the besieged city, such as the symphonic poem Leningrad (1942), and took part in the civil defense. In 1942 he was evacuated to what was then Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mountains in a life-threatening condition . Since 1944 he lived in Moscow .

Maisel's work began with a cycle of songs based on words by Heinrich Heine (1935), 5 romances based on words by Vladimir Mayakovsky , Nikolai Assejew and Semjon Kirsanow (1936), 4 romances based on words by Alexander Pushkin and 4 romances based on words by Mikhail Lermontov (1937) . Maisel's first great works in 1940 were the ballet The Snow Queen and his 1st Symphony . In 1943, the Symphony No. 2 (originated Uralsinfonie ), 1945, the Symphony No. 3 ( Victory Triumph Symphony ) and 1946, the Symphony No. 4 on the 30th anniversary of the October Revolution . In 1951 he composed the Suite Evening votes for jazz - orchestra . During this time and later, symphonic poems, suites, especially from his ballets, instrumental concerts and the music for the film Dresdener Galerie emerged together with Sergei Alexandrowitsch Schatirjan.

In 1957 Maisel created the first Buryat ballet In the Name of Love (together with Shigschit Batuev). This was followed in 1958 by the opera Blutsbrüder (together with Dandar Ajuscheew ), in 1959 the ballets The Golden Candle and The Sombrero . In 1962, the year after Yuri Gagarin's first space flight , he composed the 5th symphony and also the symphonic poem Далёкая планета [The Distant Planet], which premiered in 1963 as the first Soviet science fiction ballet in Leningrad. In 1963 he wrote the ballet Geliebte Helden and in 1966 the opera The Shadow of the Past . In the same year he composed 4 romances on words by García Lorca and 3 romances on words by Yevgeny Yevtushenko . After the 6th symphony (1967) and the 7th symphony (1969) he created the symphonic rhapsody on folk themes of the Soviet republics in 1972 and the 8th symphony in 1973. In terms of style, Maisel initially moved within the framework of socialist realism , from the 1960s onwards his musical language became increasingly atonal , influenced by the expressionism of the Soviet avant-garde at the time. In total, depending on the source, he left 8 to 10 symphonies, the last of which was composed in 1986, the year of his death.

Maisel was married to Tatyana Vladimirovna Strakach (* 1904), daughter of the hussar - Colonel Vladimir Stanislawowitsch Strakatsch (1870-1948) and aunt of the film director Ilya Alexandrovich Averbach . His second wife (1937–1961) was the artist Alisa Ivanovna Poret (1902–1984). His third marriage was to the architect Marija Andrejewna Koslowskaja (1914–1997). Maisel was buried in Moscow's Vvedenskoye Cemetery.

Honors

literature

Web links

  • Boris Maisel in: Российская Еврейская Энциклопедия, accessed on December 11, 2018
  • Boris Solomonovich Shteynpress: Майзель Б. С. , accessed on December 11, 2018, in: Музыкальная энциклопедия, Sowjetskij Kompozitor, Moscow 1973–1982

Remarks

  1. ↑ Some sources name 8, others 9, still others 10 symphonies.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Большая биографическая энциклопедия: Майзель, Борис Сергеевич (accessed February 12, 2017).
  2. ↑ Танго соловья – 2 (Ю. Богословский - Б. Майзель - О. Строк) (accessed February 12, 2017).
  3. ↑ a b c d МАЙЗЕЛЬ Борис Сергеевич (1907–1986) (accessed February 12, 2017).
  4. ↑ Igor Karpinskij:  Majzel, Boris Sergeevič. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 11 (Lesage - Menuhin). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1121-7  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  5. ↑ a b Alla Vladimirovna Grigor′yeva:  Mayzel ′, Boris Sergeyevich. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  6. ↑ a b c d Boris Maisel in: Российская Еврейская Энциклопедия, accessed on December 11, 2018
  7. ↑ a b c d Boris Yoffe : In the flow of the symphonic . Wolke, Hofheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-95593-059-2 , pp. 223-227 .
  8. ↑ Музыкальная энциклопедия: Майзель, Борис Сергеевич , accessed on December 11, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Maisel, Boris Sergejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Майзель, Борис Сергеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1986
Place of death Moscow