Daniel Vladimirovich Zhitomirsky

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Daniel Wladimirowitsch Schitomirski ( Russian Даниэль Владимирович Житомирский ; also Daniėl Vladimirovič Žitomirskij ), (born December 9th July / December 22nd  1906 greg. In Pavlohrad ; † June 27th 1992 musicologist from Moscow ) was a Russian musicologist and music critic from Moscow .

Schitomirski studied music theory with Semjon Bogatyrjow at the Kharkov Conservatory and composition with Nikolai Schiljajew and music history with Mikhail Ivanov-Borezki at the Moscow Conservatory . He was a recognized expert for the composer Robert Schumann and in general for the musical aesthetics of German Romanticism . Schitomirsky also worked intensively on the composers of the Soviet era, in particular on Dmitri Shostakovich . In 1966 Schitomirski received the Robert Schumann Prize from the city of Zwickau . Schitomirski has published an extremely extensive Schumann letter edition of almost 1,100 letters in Russian translation. As part of the first Stalinist culture campaign of 1936/37 against “formalism” in music, Zhitomirsky vilified the work of the Ukrainian composer Borys Lyatoschynskyj . Lyatoschynskyj reports this in his correspondence with the Russian composer Reinhold Glière .

Literature by Daniel Shitomirski

  • Daniel Shitomirski: Blindness as Protection from the Truth: Notes by one of the participants on music and musical life in the former Soviet Union . Ed .: Ernst Kuhn. Kuhn, Berlin 1996, ISBN 978-3-928864-18-3 (autobiography).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Exact date of birth and death according to: Bibliotèque nationale de France
  2. ↑ Tamara Nikolayevna Levaya:  Zhitomirsky, Daniil Vladimirovich. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  3. ↑ Margarita V. Esipova:  Ivanov-Boreckij Mikhail Vladimirovič. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 9 (Himmel - Kelz). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2003, ISBN 3-7618-1119-5  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  4. ↑ Robert-Schumann-Haus Zwickau (Dr. Thomas Synofzik) in connection with the Robert-Schumann-Forschungsstelle Düsseldorf (editor): History of the printing of Schumann's letters
  5. ↑ see on this: Борис Лятошинський , "Епiстолярна спадщина" (упор. I). - Киiв: Царевич, М.Копиця, 2002. - Т. 1, pages 273-277.
personal data
SURNAME Schitomirski, Daniel Wladimirowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Žitomirskij, Daniėl Vladimirovič; Житомирский, Даниэль Владимирович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian musicologist and music critic
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Pavlohrad
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1992