Ernest Pingoud

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Ernest Pingoud, 1921

Ernest Pingoud ([ pɛ̃ˈgu ]; born October 14, 1887 in St. Petersburg (the year of birth 1888, which can be partially found, is wrong); † June 1, 1942 in Helsinki ) was a Russian-born Finnish composer with Franco- Huguenot roots, whose mother tongue Was German.

Life

Pingoud took private lessons with Alexander Siloti and at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Anton Rubinstein , Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow and Alexander Glasunow . From 1906 music studies with Hugo Riemann and Max Reger in Germany followed. From there he worked as a correspondent and writer of musical and literary essays for the Petersburg newspaper . He also studied subjects such as mining, metallurgy and literature, which should become his major. A dissertation on the subject of Goethe was not accepted because new sources had surfaced at the same time.

After the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1918, Pingoud emigrated to Finland (where he had connections through his mother from Wiborg ) and worked first as a music teacher, then as head of the Fazer concert agency (1921 to 1931, 1935 to 1937), and later for his own agency (1931 to 1933). From 1924 until his death he was also director of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra . In 1942 he put an end to his life himself.

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Ernest Pingoud, along with Väinö Raitio and Aarre Merikanto, was one of the pioneers of musical modernism in Finland in the 1920s. The first concert of Pingoud's works took place in Helsinki in 1918 and led to Pingoud being labeled as a “futurist”, “ultra-modernist” or “music Bolshevik”, although his skills as an orchestrator were recognized. In the following years there were also performances of works abroad, for example in 1923 the world premiere of the 3rd piano concerto with the soloist Leonid Kreutzer and the Berlin Philharmonic under Pingoud's own direction took place in Berlin .

The focus of Pingoud's work was on orchestral compositions, especially symphonic poems in the spirit of Alexander Scriabin , who initially formed his main musical figure, but from whom he later distanced himself again. In addition, Pingoud wrote three symphonies (1920, 1920, 1923-1927) and three piano concertos. In his Five Sonnets (1918) he approached the aphoristic style of the Second Viennese School without, however, fundamentally renouncing the tonality in his compositions despite the use of dissonant harmonies . In contrast to almost all of his contemporaries, he was far from using national themes and texts, such as those from the Kalevala . Pingoud also wrote chamber music works, including two string quartets, as well as occasional light music.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biogram b. munzinger.de
  2. ↑ Biography, Finland Institute in Germany

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personal data
SURNAME Pingoud, Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1942
Place of death Helsinki