Boris Vladimirovich Assafiev

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Asafiev's tombstone in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow

Boris Vladimirovich Asafiev ( Russian Борис Владимирович Асафьев , pseudonym Igor Glebov ( Russian Игорь Глебов ); born July 17 . Jul / 29. July  1884 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 27. January 1949 in Moscow ) was a Russian musicologist and composer.

Life

Assafjew ​​studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow and Anatoli Lyadow . In 1910 he became a ballet coach at the Mariinsky Theater in Petersburg . From 1921 he headed the music department of the State Institute for Art History. In 1925 he founded the Musicology Faculty of the Leningrad Conservatory. From 1943 he headed the Art History Institute in Moscow.

Assafjew ​​composed ten operas , numerous ballets , three symphonies , two cantatas and songs . He also emerged as the author of musicological works (including the musical form as a process , the music in Russia ).

The Assafiev Glacier in Antarctica is named after him.

meaning

As an analyst and critic, Assafjew ​​is considered the founder of Russian / Soviet musicology. Among other things, he coined the term simfonizm , which stands for the “... specific Soviet handling of the cyclical sonata form, the genre of the symphony par excellence”. Due to its constructivist character, the musicology of the early Soviet era was closely linked to music practice - Assafjew ​​is among other things the dedicatee of Sergei Prokofiev's 1st symphony .

Works

Operas

  • Cinderella ("Cinderella") , 1906,
  • The Snow Queen , 1907
  • The Chamberlain , 1935
  • Minin and Posharski , 1936–1938
  • Altyn-Chech ("The Girl with the Golden Hair") , 1938
  • The Brazen Rider , 1939
  • The Thunderstorm , 1939–1940
  • The binge during the plague , 1940
  • The Slavic Beauty ("The Magic Castle") , 1940
  • Claretta's career , operetta, 1940
  • Hercules , operetta, 1941

Ballets

  • The white lily ("Poet's Dreams") , 1910–1914,
  • The Fairy's Gift , 1910
  • King Carnival , 1914
  • The ice girl ("Solveig") , 1918
  • La Carmagnola , 1918
  • The flame of Paris , 1932
  • The Bakhchisarai fountain , 1933/34
  • Lost Illusions , 1934
  • Partisans , 1935
  • The prisoner in the Caucasus , 1936
  • The night before Christmas , 1937
  • The beautiful Radda , 1937
  • Ivan Bolotnikov , 1938
  • Stepan Rasin , 1939
  • Aschik-Kerib , 1939/40
  • Portraits of Ballet Artists - Ballet Suite, 1940
  • Sulamith , 1940/41
  • Snow Maiden , 1941
  • Count Nulin , 1941-1943
  • The gravedigger , 1943
  • The Stone Guest , 1943
  • Lada , 1943
  • Francesca da Rimini , 1943
  • The princess as a peasant woman , 1945
  • Spring fairy tale , 1946
  • A spring fairy tale , 1946
  • The family , 1947
  • Miliza , 1942-47

Selected works, monographs

  • The musical form as a process. - Verlag Neue Musik, 1976. - ISBN 978-3733300401
  • Alexander Borodin - his life, his music, his writings. - Verlag Ernst Kuhn, 1992. - ISBN 978-3928864039
  • Program booklet The Bakhchisarai Fountain. Ballet by Boris Assafiev. - Druckkombinat Berlin, 1970
  • Music in Russia: (From 1800 to the October Revolution of 1917). Developments - evaluations - overviews. - Verlag Ernst Kuhn, 1996. - ISBN 978-3928864121

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vladimir Kabusicky: "Simfonizm", "Tematizm" and "Vokal'nost" as aesthetic categories in Shostakovich's work . In: Cologne Contributions to Music Research: International Dmitri Shostakovich Symposium Cologne 1985 . Regensburg 1986, p. 166 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Boris Assafjew ​​- biography. Retrieved April 13, 2018 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Assafjew, Boris Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Globow, Igor (pseudonym); Асафьев, Борис Владимирович (Russian); Asaf'ev, Boris Vladimirovich (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1949
Place of death Moscow