Borys Lyatoschynskyi
Borys Mykolajowytsch Ljatoschynskyj ( Ukrainian Борис Миколайович Лятошинський u, spelling of the surname a well.. Ljatoschinski , Ljatošinskij or Lyatoshinsky * December 22, 1894 jul. / 3. January 1895 greg. In Zhytomyr , volhynian governorate , Russian Empire ; † 15. April 1968 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian composer .
Life
Lyatoschynskyj came from a family of teachers and had piano and violin lessons since childhood. Around 1910 he wrote his first compositions, which were performed by local musicians. In 1913 he graduated from high school and studied law in Kiev from 1914 to 1918, but also composition at the Conservatory with Reinhold Glière (he was to be a lifelong friendship with Glière; after his death he also completed his violin concerto op. 100). In 1919 he completed his music studies and then became a teacher at the Kiev Conservatory, from 1935 professor of composition and orchestration there. From 1935 to 1938 and in the early 1940s, he also taught at the Moscow Conservatory . One of his students was Walentyn Sylwestrow . From 1956 he held a leading position in the Soviet Composers' Union. He died in Kiev in 1968 and is buried there in the Baikowe cemetery .
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Lyatoschynskyj wrote 2 operas, 5 symphonies (1918, 1935/36, 1951/54, 1963, 1966), suites, overtures and tone poems for orchestra, a piano concerto, chamber music (including 4 string quartets, 2 piano trios, a violin sonata) and piano works , Incidental music, songs and folk song arrangements, choirs, cantatas and film music.
Lyatoschynskyj's works are initially influenced by the romantic tradition (including Borodin , Tchaikovsky ) and then incorporate harmonic elements of the musical language of Alexander Scriabin . In the 1920s, Lyatoschynskyj, influenced by the Central and Western European avant-garde, turned to a polytonal to atonal spelling. From 1929 his way of composing gradually became harmoniously simpler again and increasingly relied on elements of Slavic folk music. His 2nd symphony (1935/36) aroused the displeasure of the official censors and, despite revision, was not premiered until 1964 (a fate comparable to that of the 4th symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich ). Lyatoschynskyj also received numerous awards, including two state awards from the Soviet Union (1946 and 1952).
His pupils included Leonid Hrabowsky (* 1935), Vitali Godsjazki (* 1936), Walentyn Sylwestrow (* 1937) and Jewhen Stankowytsch (* 1942).
literature
- Virko Baley: Lyatoshynsky, Borys Mykolayovych. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- Jelena Zinkevych: Lyatoshinsky and Kyiv school. In: Luba Kyyanovska, Helmut Loos (eds.): Ukrainian music. Idea and history of a national musical movement in its European context. Gudrun Schröder, Leipzig 2013, pp. 37–44
- CD supplement Marco Polo 8.223540 (Lyatoschynskyj: Symphonies 2 and 3), text: Theodore Kuchar
Web links
- Works by and about Borys Lyatoschynskyj in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bio and discography at Naxos
- Boris Liatoshinsky: Catalog raisonné. Internet Edition compiled by Onno van Rijen. March 4, 2006, archived from the original on March 15, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Information from the conductor Theodore Kuchar on the 2nd symphony in the CD booklet (Marco Polo 1993/94)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lyatoshynskyi, Borys |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lyatoschynskyj, Borys Mykolajowytsch (full name); Лятошинський, Борис Миколайович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zhytomyr , Volyn Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1968 |
| Place of death | Kiev , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic |