Boris de Schloezer

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Boris de Schloezer ( Russian Борис Фёдорович Шлёцер / Boris Fedorovich Schlözer , scientific. Transliteration Boris Fedorovic Šlëcer even Борис де Шлёцер transliteration, scientific. Boris de Šlëcer * 8. December 1881 in Vitebsk , † 7. October 1969 in Paris ) was a Russian - French translator and musicologist of German-Belgian origin.

Life

Boris de Schloezer comes from the German Schlözer family on his father's side . His father Fyodor Juljewitsch Schloezer (1842-1906) came to Vitebsk as a lawyer , where Boris was born in 1881.

After the October Revolution he emigrated to Paris, where he stayed until the end of his life.

Boris de Schloezer made a name for himself primarily as a mediator of Russian music and philosophy. As early as 1919 he wrote a fundamental introduction to the work of Alexander Scriabin , who was married to his sister Tatiana de Schloezer (1883–1922). In exile in France he translated Lev Tolstoy and Gogol . He was particularly closely connected to the philosopher Leo Schestow , whose work he first made known in the West through translation into French. His introduction to Johann Sebastian Bach has been translated into several languages.

Works

  • Boris F. Schloezer: A. Scriabin . Berlin undated (French under the title Alexandre Scriabine , Paris 1975, English Scriabin: artist and mystic , Oxford 1987)
  • Draft of a musical aesthetic. To understand Johann Sebastian Bach. Translated from the French by Horst Leuchtmann. Hamburg / Munich: Ellermann 1964.

literature

  • Gun-Britt Kohler: Boris de Schloezer (1881-1969). Ways out of Russian emigration . Cologne: Böhlau 2003. ISBN 3-412-13302-7

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personal data
SURNAME Schloezer, Boris de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boris von Schlözer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian music writer, translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Vitebsk
DATE OF DEATH 7th October 1969
Place of death Paris