Georgi Mikhailovich Rimsky-Korsakov

Georgi Mikhailovich Rimsky-Korsakov ( Russian Георгий Михайлович Римский-Корсаков * December 13 ^jul. / 26. December  1901 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 10. October 1965 in Leningrad ) was a Russian composer and grandson of the composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov .

Life

Rimsky-Korsakov was a student of Maximilian Steinberg , Boris Wladimirowitsch Assafjew , Nikolai Sokolow and Sergej Lyapunow , among others . He graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory in 1927 and began teaching there that same year, and in 1928 received a position as associate professor. As assistant to Boris Assafjew ​​he supervised courses in musical acoustics until 1929. From 1940 he held a lectureship for score playing and in 1947 received another position as associate professor. From 1953 to 1962 he taught orchestration .

In the 1920s he wrote quarter-tone pieces, some for electronic instruments. From 1923 to 1929 he was director of an ensemble for quarter-tone music and also went public with lectures and concerts at the State Institute for Musicology. The first concerts of this society took place on April 13th and May 25th, 1925. In addition to works by the ensemble leader, pieces by Nikolai Malachowski and Alois Hába were performed . As an advocate of electronic quarter-tone music, he staged demonstrations and a theme evening of this direction with the first electronic musical instrument Termenvox , presented by the inventor Leon Theremin . Around 1930 he helped Evgeni Alexandrowitsch Scholpo in the development of the Variophone . In 1944 he co-founded the Rimsky-Korsakov Museum in Tikhvin.

Through his efforts with electronic instruments and his quarter-tone experiments, he had a significant influence on the Soviet art music of this era. His students included u. a. the composer Galina Ustvolskaya .

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Rimsky-Korsakov wrote, among other things, a symphony (1925), quarter-tone compositions for chamber music ensembles, 2 string quartets, 2 piano sonatas and 24 preludes for piano. Some of his chamber music works include the so-called emiriton , a kind of electronic harmonium . He also composed music for plays and films, including music for the satirical cartoon films The Rolling-Stone (1931) and The symphony of the world (1932).

Fonts

• Deciphering of the lighting line of Scriabin 's "Prometheus". ; In: "De Musica". - Leningrad: GIII, 1926, N 2, pp. 94-102
• Monographs on his grandfather Nikolai Rimski-Korssakow and on Maximilian Steinberg
• Polyphonic Orchestration , 1955 (Original title: Оркестровая полифония), textbook

literature

• Detlef Gojowy : New Soviet Music of the 20s . Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 1980 ISBN 3-9215-1809-1
• Larry Sitsky: Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-garde, 1900-1929 . Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport 1994, pp. 326 ff ISBN 031326709X .
• Detlef Gojowy: Dimitri Schostakowitsch: With personal testimonies and photo documents . Rowohlt, 1983 ISBN 3499503204
• Lidia Ader: Microtonal storm and stress: Georgy Rimsky-Korsakov and quarter-tone music in 1920s Soviet Russia in Tempo . Cambridge University Press, 2009, No. 63. P. 27-44.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.animator.ru/db/?p=show_person&pid=3979&sp=1
2. ↑ http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/PRF/individual_record.asp?recid=730633253&lds=2®ion=-1®ionfriendly=&frompage=99  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically saved as marked defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (The statement September contradicts all other sources)  
3. ↑ Larry Sitsky (1994)
4. ↑ ^{a b c} http://josef-egipetsky.narod.ru/Slovar/People/17r121rimsk-k_gm.htm  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6425152
6. ↑ Detlef Gojowy, Schostakowitsch (monograph), Hamburg 1983, p. 38
7. ↑ Detlef Gojowy, 1980, p. 40
8. ↑ http://www.petersburg.aktuell.ru/petersburg/sehenswert/museum_palast/rimski-korsakow-museum_110.html
9. ↑ Detlef Gojowy, 1980, p. 44
10. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ http://www.animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=2421

Web links

• Short biography (Russian, source of short biography: en: Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation )