Georgi Catoire

Georgi Catoire ( Georgi Lvovich Katuar , Russian Георгий Львович Катуар ; born April 15 ^{. Jul} / 27. April  1861 ^greg. In Moscow , † 21st May 1926 ) was a Russian composer of French descent.

Katuar studied mathematics at Moscow University until 1884 . In 1885 he attended Karl Klindworth's piano school in Berlin , where he also studied composition with Otto Tirsch and Philipp Rüfer . After that he was a student of Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow , Anatoli Lyadow and Anton Arensky in St. Petersburg and Moscow . In 1888 he returned to Moscow and completed his studies privately with Sergei Taneyev and Peter Tchaikovsky . From 1917 he was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory . His students included Dmitri Kabalewski , Leonid Polowinkin , Alexander Abramski , Vladimir Vlasov and Sergei Evsejew .

He composed a symphony , a symphonic poem , a piano concerto , chamber music works, a cantata , choral works, songs and piano pieces and wrote several works on music theory. His style is influenced by Peter Tchaikovsky and Richard Wagner .

literature

• Anna Zassimova : Georges Catoire: his music, his life, his charisma . Ernst Kuhn, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-936637-22-9 .
• Anna Zassimova: The correspondence between PI Tchaikovsky and Yegor (Georgij) L. Catoire. German Tchaikovsky Society, Communications 15. Tübingen, 2008
• Anna Zassimova: GL Catoire. Poem for Violin and Piano Op. 20. On Artistic Interpretation. [russ.] Editorial of the Moscow State Pedagogical University. Moscow, 2000
• Anna Zassimova: The Piano Works of GL Catoire in the Contemporary Pianist's Repertory. [russ.] Editorial of the Moscow State Pedagogical University. Moscow, 2001

Web links

• Works by and about Georgi Catoire in the catalog of the German National Library
• Book about Catoire - short summary ( memento of June 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 1, 2018
• Bio and discography at classical.net
• Catoire music initiative
• Sheet music and audio files by Georgi Catoire in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Stuart Campbell, Marina Lobanova:  Katuar, Georgij L'vovič. 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)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Georgi Catoire at dic.academic.ru