Edisson Wassiljewitsch Denisov

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Denisov (1975)

Edisson Wassiljewitsch Denissow ( Russian Эдисон Васильевич Денисов , often written as Edison Denisov ; born April 6, 1929 in Tomsk , Siberia , † November 24, 1996 in Paris ) was a Soviet- Russian composer and music theorist . He is one of the most important composers of Russian modernism .

Life

Denisov was born the son of an engineer and a doctor in Siberia. From 1946 to 1947 he learned piano at the music school in Tomsk. From 1947 to 1951 he studied mathematics at the Tomsk State University and graduated with a diploma before deciding to become a composer. This decision was supported by his future teacher Dmitri Shostakovich . To this end, Denisov enrolled at the Moscow Conservatory . He was of Vissarion Schebalin in composition and Nikolai Peiko taught piano.

For many years, Denisov held a course in instrumentation and score reading at the Moscow Conservatory, in the middle position of an "old teacher". As a result of his enthusiasm for avant-garde tendencies in the West in his own work, he was not “entrusted” with his own composition class (the famous troika - Schnittke , Gubaidulina , Denissow - did not gain official recognition). In 1979 he was sharply criticized by the General Secretary of the Composers' Union of the Soviet Union, Tikhon Khrennikov , as a member of Khrennikov's Seven group . Nevertheless, many composition students were currently enrolled in Denisov's class to get to know his works and eagerly listen to the critical remarks and wishes of the secret authority. His most important students include Jelena Firsowa , Dmitri Smirnow , Vladimir Tarnopolski and Vadim Werbitzky .

From 1968 to 1970 he worked at the experimental studio for electronic music in Moscow. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he became secretary of the Russian composers' association and re-founded the Association for Contemporary Music (ASM-2), which was dissolved in 1932. In March 1990 he was also the patron of the Moscow ensemble for contemporary music founded by Yuri Kasparov . In 1992 he finally received a professorship at the Moscow Conservatory.

From 1990 to 1991 he worked at IRCAM in Paris. Towards the end of his life, seriously injured after a traffic accident, Denisov emigrated to France in 1994 and was treated in a Paris clinic, where he died in 1996. He had a great affinity for French culture and adored the renowned composer Pierre Boulez . Other musical role models were Bartók , Mozart , Stravinsky and Webern .

After a joint masterclass with Edison Denissow on the occasion of the International Music Festival Lucerne IMF , the Swiss composers Marianne Schroeder , John Wolf Brennan , Jean-Luc Darbellay , Christian Henking and Michael Schneider founded the Groupe Lacroix .

Awards and memberships

Works (selection)

  • Symphony in C major (1955)
  • Trio for violin, clarinet and bassoon (1957)
  • Sonata for two violins (1958)
  • Bagatelles for piano (1960)
  • Variations for piano (1961)
  • Symphony for two string orchestras and percussion (1962)
  • Concerto for flute, oboe, piano and percussion (1963)
  • The Sun of the Incas for soprano and ensemble (1964)
  • Crescendo e diminuendo for harpsichord and twelve strings (1965)
  • Klagen for soprano, piano and three percussionists (1966)
  • Five stories from Mr. Keuner for tenor and ensemble (1966)
  • Three pieces for violoncello and piano (1967)
  • Herbst for thirteen solo voices (1968)
  • Ode for clarinet, trombone, violoncello and piano (1968)
  • String Trio (1969)
  • DSCH for clarinet, trombone, violoncello and piano (1969)
  • Silhouettes for flute, two pianos and percussion (1969)
  • Painting for orchestra (1970)
  • Herbstlied for soprano and orchestra (1971)
  • Canon in memoriam Igor Stravinsky for flute, clarinet and harp (1971)
  • Concerto for violoncello and orchestra (1972)
  • La vie en rouge for voice and five instruments (1973)
  • Characters in White for Piano (1974)
  • Watercolors for 24 strings (1975)
  • Concerto for flute and orchestra (1975)
  • Concerto for flute, oboe and orchestra (1978)
  • Requiem for solos, choir and orchestra (1975), based on a text written in several languages ​​(English, French, German and Latin) by Francisco Tanzer , premiered: 1980, Hamburg
  • L'écume des jours , lyrical drama in three acts (1981), libretto by Denissow, based on the novel L'écume des jours (“The foam of days”) by Boris Vian . Premiere: 1986, Opéra-Comique , Paris. DEA: 1991, Gelsenkirchen.
  • Concerto for bassoon, violoncello and orchestra (1982)
  • Chamber Symphony (1982)
  • Confession, ballet in three acts (1984)
  • Tableaux de Paul Klee for viola and ensemble (1985)
  • Concerto for viola and orchestra (1986)
  • Concerto for oboe and orchestra (1986)
  • Les Quatre Filles, opera in six images (1986)
  • Symphony for large orchestra (1987)
  • Les Cloches dans le Brouillard for orchestra (1988)
  • Point et LIgnes for two pianos for eight hands (1988)
  • Concerto for clarinet and orchestra (1989)
  • Concerto for guitar and orchestra (1991)
  • Kyrie, Hommage à Mozart for choir and orchestra (1991)
  • Sur la Nappe d'un étang glacé for nine instruments and tape (1991)
  • Histoire de la Vie et de la Mort de notre Seigneur Jésus Christ for soloists, choir and orchestra (1992)
  • Morgentraum for soprano, choir and orchestra (1993)
  • Concerto for flute, vibraphone, harpsichord and strings (1993)
  • Sonata for alto saxophone and piano for Jean-Marie Londeix
  • Five etudes for bassoon solo, new edition 1997

Film music

  • Golubaya chashka (1964)
  • Lebedev protiv Lebedeva (1965)
  • Chyornyy Biznes (1965)
  • The Scout (1967)
  • The Fire Red Flower (1978)
  • Bezymyannaya zvezda (1978)
  • Fevralskiy veter (1981)
  • Idealnyy muzh (1982)
  • U opasnoy cherty (1983)
  • Dvazhdy rozhdyonnyy (1983)
  • Na okraine, gde-to v gorode ... (1988)
  • Piry Valtasara, ili still so Stalinym (1989)
  • Nochevala tuchka zolotaya ... (1989)
  • Samoubiytsa (1990)
  • Iskushenie B. (1990)
  • Prishwin's Paper Eyes (1990)
  • Tsarskaya okhota (1991)
  • Ochen vernaya zhena (1992)
  • Anomaliya (1993)

Varia

literature

  • Denisov, Denisov, Edisson . In: Brockhaus-Riemann Musiklexikon. CD-Rom, Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89853-438-3 , p. 2567 f.
  • Jurij Cholopov [Kholopov, Yuri], Valerija Cenova [Tsenova, Valeria]: Edison Denisov - the Russian voice in European new music . Kuhn, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-928864-89-0 .
  • Detlef Gojowy: Edison Denisov . In: Contemporary Composers (KDG). Edition Text & Criticism, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-86916-164-8 .
  • Mikhail E. Tarakanow: Denissow, Edisson Wassiljewitsch. In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): Music in past and present (MGG). Volume 15, Bärenreiter, Kassel 1973, p. 1758 f.
  • Ekaterina Kouprovskaia: Edison Denisov. Aedam Musicae, 2017, ISBN 978-2-919046-18-8 .

Web links

Commons : Edison Denisov  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Volker Hagedorn: Sartre and the house mouse - Edison Denisov's opera “The Foam of Days” based on Boris Vian is being rehabilitated in Stuttgart. In: Die Zeit , December 6, 2012, accessed on September 12, 2016.
  2. Martin Demmler: Composers of the Twentieth Century . Reclam, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-15-010447-5 , pp. 106-107 .