Boris von Vietinghoff-Scheel
Boris Alexandrowitsch Baron von Vietinghoff-Scheel ( Russian Борис Александрович Фитингоф-Шель ; * 1829 in Morschansk , † 1901 in St. Petersburg ) was a Russian composer .
Life
Boris came from the Baltic family of the Barons von Vietinghoff-Scheel . He initially pursued an officer career in the Imperial Russian Army . After leaving , he began to compose pieces as a dilettante and autodidact under the influence of Henselt , Focht , Dargomyschski , Marx and Fétis . He is said to have been very talented and his work is assigned to Russian Romanticism .
Works
- Operas
- Mazeppa (1859)
- Tamara (1886)
- Don Juan de Tenorio (1888)
- Ballet
- The Haarlem Tulip (1885)
- Cinderella (1893)
In addition to other operas, marches, etc., around 80 small compositions of church and chamber music by him are known.
literature
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 1373 .
- Helmut Scheuncehn: Lexicon of German Baltic Music. Wedemark 2002. pp. 274-275
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Boris von Vietinghoff-Scheel. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона , Volume 16, 1902, p. 46 (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vietinghoff-Scheel, Boris |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vietinghoff-Scheel, Boris Alexandrowitsch von (full name); Фитингоф-Шель, Борис Александрович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Morshansk |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1901 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |