Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko

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Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko ( Russian Борис Иванович Тищенко , scientific transliteration Boris Ivanovič Tiščenko ; born March 23, 1939 in Leningrad ; † December 9, 2010 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian composer .

Life

Boris Tishchenko, studied composition (with Galina Ustvolskaya ) and piano at the Leningrad Music School from 1954 to 1957 . He then moved to the Leningrad Conservatory , where he also studied composition (with Vadim Salmanow and Orest Jewlachow ) and piano until 1963 . From 1962 to 1965 he was an aspirant with Dmitri Shostakovich . From 1965 Tishchenko himself taught at the Leningrad Conservatory, initially theoretical subjects, from 1974 composition. In 1986 he was appointed professor. In addition to his composition and teaching activities, he has published musicological writings on, among others, Claudio Monteverdi , Franz Schubert and Dmitri Shostakovich. He also performed as a pianist. In 1978 Tishchenko was awarded the Glinka Prize.

Audio language

Boris Tishchenko was a very original and independent composer. After he was one of the first Soviet composers to experiment with modern compositional techniques such as the twelve-tone technique in the 1960s, in the early 1970s he developed a personal style based on Shostakovich's late works. Its influence is particularly evident in the melody, rhythm and instrumentation . Boris Tishchenko preferred free forms and often wrote monothematically. He remained committed to tradition, large passages of his works are tonal and characterized by quite simple, often even diatonic themes. These passages are contrasted with sections that use modern stylistic devices such as extreme enrichment of dissonance up to the formation of clusters . There is a noticeable tendency towards artistic polyphony . Sometimes the influence of Soviet jazz or Russian folklore is also evident . Tischtschenko placed particular emphasis on the rhythm, which is often wild and very dominant at the culmination points; partly he used polymetrics . Characteristic of his tonal language are also humorous to ironic elements. Boris Tishchenko preferred large, very extensive genres. His orchestral works often have a large cast, which is mostly used for chamber music.

Works

  • Numbered symphonies
    • Symphony No. 1 op.20 (1961)
    • Symphony No. 2 op. 28 "Marina" for choir and orchestra (1964)
    • Symphony No. 3 op.36 for chamber orchestra (1966)
    • Symphony No. 4 op.61 with speaker (1974)
    • Symphony No. 5, Op. 67 (1976)
    • Symphony No. 6 op.105 for soprano, alto and orchestra (1988)
    • Symphony No. 7, Op. 119 (1994)
    • Symphony No. 8, Op. 149 (2008)
    • Symphony No. 9 (2008-10, fragment orch. Swetlana Nesterowa )
  • Further orchestral works
    • “French Symphony” after Anatole France op. 12 (1958), rev. as op. 116 (1993)
    • "Sinfonia robusta" op. 46 (1970)
    • "Die Siegeschronik", Symphony op. 92 (1984)
    • Five Dante symphonies based on Dante's Divine Comedy op. 123 (1996-2005):
      • No. 1 "Introduction" op. 123 No. 1 (1997)
      • No. 2 "Inferno: First to Sixth Circle" op. 123 No. 2 and 3 (2000)
      • No. 3 "Inferno: Seventh to Ninth Circle" op. 123 No. 4 (2001)
      • No. 4 "Purgatorio" op. 123 No. 5, 6 and 7 (2003)
      • No. 5 "Paradiso" op. 123 No. 8, 9 and 10 (2005)
    • " Pushkin Symphony" op. 125 (1998, after "The Death of Pushkin" op. 38)
    • symphonic poems
    • Suites
  • Concerts
    • Piano Concerto op.21 (1962)
    • Concerto for violin, piano and string orchestra op.144 (2006)
    • Concerto for piano, flute and string orchestra op.54 (1972)
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 op.9 (1958), rev. as op. 29 (1964)
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 op. 84 "Violin Symphony" (1981)
    • Violoncello Concerto No. 1, Op. 23 for violoncello, 17 wind instruments, percussion and organ (1963)
    • Violoncello Concerto No. 2, Op. 44 No. 1 for violoncello, 48 cellos, 12 double basses and percussion (1969), rev. for violoncello, string orchestra and percussion as op.44 no.2 (1979)
    • Harp Concerto op.69 (1977)
  • Incidental music
    • "The stolen sun", opera op. 40 (1968)
    • "The Cockroach", Komische Oper op. 41 (1968)
    • "The Twelve", ballet op. 25 (1963)
    • "Jaroslawna (The Solar Eclipse)", ballet op. 58 (1974)
    • Drama and film music
  • Other vocal music
    • " Lenin is alive", cantata op. 15 (1959)
    • " Requiem " based on the words of Anna Akhmatova op. 35 (1966)
    • Requiem in memoriam Galyani Vadhana op.150 (2008)
    • Choral works
    • Song cycles
  • Chamber music
    • String Quartet No. 1 op.8 (1957)
    • String Quartet No. 2 op.13 (1959)
    • String Quartet No. 3 Op. 47 (1970)
    • String Quartet No. 4 op.77 (1980)
    • String Quartet No. 5 op.90 (1984)
    • String Quartet No. 6 Op. 148 (2008)
    • Piano quintet op.93 (1985)
    • Concerto for Clarinet and Piano Trio op.109 (1990)
    • Sonatas for violin solo, violoncello solo as well as recorder and organ

Works for a solo instrument:

  • Piano music
    • Piano Sonata No. 1 op.3 (1957, rev. 1995 as op.121)
    • Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 17 (1960)
    • Piano Sonata No. 3 op.32 (1965)
    • Piano Sonata No. 4 op.53 (1972)
    • Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 56 (1973)
    • Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 64 (1976)
    • Piano sonata No. 7 op.85 with bells (1982)
    • Piano Sonata No. 8 op.99 (1986)
    • Piano Sonata No. 9 op.114 (1992)
    • Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 124 "Eureka!" (1997)
    • Piano Sonata No. 11 op.151 (2008)
    • Suite No. 1 op.4 (1957, revised as Sonata No. 10)
    • Suite No. 2 op. 6 "Ego-Suite" (1957)
    • smaller pieces
  • Organ music
    • Inventions op.27
    • Portraits

literature

  • Valentina Kholopova: Boris Tishchenko: striking spontaneity against a rationalistic background . In: Valeria Tsenova (Ed.): Underground Music from the Former USSR . Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam 1997, ISBN 3-7186-5821-6 , pp. 51 f .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link death report ( memento from February 24, 2011), accessed on June 1, 2018
  2. ↑ Short biography on Music Sales Classical
personal data
SURNAME Tishchenko, Boris Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Тищенко, Борис Иванович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 2010
Place of death St. Petersburg