Fyodor Ignatievich Stravinsky

Fyodor Stravinsky 1901

Fyodor Stravinsky Ignatievich even Fedor Ignatievich Stravinsky ( Russian Фёдор Игнатьевич Стравинский , Ukrainian Федір Гнатович Стравінський / Fedir Hnatowytsch Strawinskyj ; born June 8 ^jul. / 20th June  1843 ^greg. In Golowinzy , Minsk province , Russian Empire , † November 21 ^{jul .} / December 4,  1902 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg ) was a Ukrainian - Russian opera singer ( bass ). He was one of the most important opera singers in the Russian Empire and was the father of Igor Stravinsky .

Life

Fyodor Stravinsky was born as a descendant of the ataman of the Zaporozhian Cossacks Ivan Sulyma in a village that today belongs to Belarus . He began to study at the University of Odessa and the Vladimir University of Kiev and finished in 1869 a study of law that began in 1862 at the Lyceum in Nizhyn . He then received musical training at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and began his singing career in 1873 at the Kiev Opera House in the role of Mephistopheles in the opera Faust by Charles Gounod . In Kiev he also met his future wife, the pianist Anne Cholodowskoi ( Анне Кирилловне Холодовской 1854–1939), a relative of Sergei Djagilew . From 1876 onwards he was at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg for the next 26 years , where he took part in leading roles in 59 operas.

Fyodor Stravinsky as a Cossack in the background. Detail of the picture “The Zaporozhian Cossacks write a letter to the Turkish sultan” by Ilya Repin

Fyodor Stravinsky was the model of a Zaporog Cossack depicted there in the famous painting “ The Zaporozhian Cossacks Write a Letter to the Turkish Sultan ” by Ilya Repin . As an active advocate of the music of the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko , he often played the role of Mykola in his opera Natalka Poltawka . He was an admirer of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko and collected his books and publications as well as those of other Ukrainian authors such as Pantelejmon Kulisch , Hryhorij Kwitka-Osnovyanenko and Ivan Kotlyarevskyj , which he put together in a large library.

The tombstone of Fyodor Stravinsky made by the sculptors Vladimir Beklemischew and Leonid Posen

The one with Peter Tchaikovsky befriended Fyodor Stravinsky died 59-year-old in St. Petersburg, where he was in the Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery buried.

family

Fyodor Stravinsky was the father of the composer and conductor Igor Stravinsky , the third of his four sons and the grandfather of the composer and pianist Soulima Stravinsky .

literature

• KJ Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern, 1993, second volume M – Z, Sp. 2869, ISBN 3-907820-70-3

Web links

Commons : Fyodor Stravinsky  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Fjodor Ignatjewitsch Stravinsky at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
• Fjodor Ignatjewitsch Stravinsky in i.a.bio-graf (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Composer portrait of Dr. hc Igor Fjodorowitsch Stravinsky on erzbistum-koeln.de ; accessed on January 20, 2017
2. ↑ ^{a b} Fyodor Stravinsky on uahistory ; accessed on January 20, 2017 (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Biography Fedor Strawinski on intvua.com; accessed on January 20, 2017 (Ukrainian)
4. ↑ Directory of persons: Strawinsky, I. on musicademy.de; accessed on January 20, 2017
5. ↑ Ballet "Le Sacre du Printemps": Fever, Sex and Future in Die Zeit No. 21/2013 from May 16, 2013; accessed on January 20, 2017.