Igor Markevitch

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Igor Markevitch

Igor Markevitch ( russ. Игорь Борисович Маркевич , Igor Borisovich Markevich , Ukrainian Ігор Маркевич , Ihor Markewytsch * 14 . Jul / 27. July  1912 greg. In Kiev , † 7. March 1983 in Antibes ) was an Italian and French composer and Conductor of Russian - Ukrainian origin.

Life

The von Markevitch family moved to France in 1914 and later to Vevey in Switzerland . Markevitch studied piano and composition at the Conservatoire de Lausanne and was a student of Alfred Cortot , Vittorio Rieti and Nadia Boulanger at the École Normale de Musique de Paris . He became known for a piano concerto, which he composed in 1929 on behalf of Djagilev . In the 1930s he was one of the leading Russian composers in France. In 1936 he married Kyra, the daughter of the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky . From 1940 he lived in Italy , where he joined the Resistancea resistance movement in 1942 . In 1946 he received Italian citizenship .

After the Second World War he began a career as an international conductor. He was a student of Hermann Scherchen . At first he worked as an opera conductor at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Florence May Festival), but from the late 1940s onwards he was primarily a guest conductor in international concert halls. He made recordings in the 1950s with the Berlin Philharmonic for Deutsche Grammophon (Mozart, Schubert, Berwald, Wagner). From 1952 to 1954 he was chief conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra . From 1956 to 1960 he was chief conductor of the Orchester symphonique de Montréal . From 1957 to 1958 he directed the Havana Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1957 to 1961 he was chief conductor of the Orchester Lamoureux in Paris. Outstanding recordings were also made with this formation (Beethoven: Pastorale ; Berlioz: La damnation de Faust and Jeux d'enfants; Mozart: Coronation Mass; Debussy: La Mer and others). In the United States, he often conducted the Symphony of the Air Orchestra (New York), which previously worked closely with Toscanini as the NBC Symphony Orchestra . Important productions were also made here: Beethoven's Eroica and the 1st Symphony by Johannes Brahms). Markevitch recorded for Philips in the USSR in the 1960s, a. a. the Alto Rhapsody by Brahms and Kodály's Psalmus Hungaricus . The recordings were re-released by Deutsche Grammophon under the title Igor Markevitch: Un véritable artist . From 1965 to 1969 he was chief conductor of the Madrid Radio Orchestra and from 1968 to 1973 he directed the Orchester Philharmonique de Monte Carlo and was conductor at the Opéra de Monaco . In 1973 he took over the direction of the orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia .

Markevitch taught at the Mozarteum in Salzburg from 1947 to 1953 and in Mexico from 1955 to 1956; among his students are the conductors Wolfgang Sawallisch , Herbert Blomstedt , Milan Horvat , Daniel Barenboim and the German-American conducting teacher Otto-Werner Mueller . He also held a chair at the Moscow Conservatory . In 1952 he initiated the founding of the European Festivals Association together with Denis de Rougemont . In 1968 he was a juror at the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition in New York.

In 1983 he was awarded the Arthur Nikisch Prize .

Markevitch composed a sinfonietta , a piano concerto and other orchestral pieces, chamber music works, choral works and piano pieces. His works were u. a. performed by Hans Rosbaud . His son Oleg (* 1956) also became a conductor.

His grave is on the Cimetière des Semboules in Antibes .

Works

  • Noces , Suite, 1925
  • Sinfonietta , 1928-29
  • Piano concerto , 1929
  • Cantata for soprano, male choir and orchestra (text by Jean Cocteau ), 1929–30
  • Concerto Grosso , 1930
  • Cinéma overture , 1931
  • Rébus , ballet, 1931
  • Partita for piano and chamber orchestra , 1931
  • Sérénade for three instruments, 1931
  • Gallop for eight or nine players , 1932
  • L'envol d'Icare , ballet, 1932
  • Hymnes , 1932-33
  • Psalm for soprano, female choir and orchestra , 1933
  • Petite Suite d'après Schumann , 1933
  • Le Paradis Perdu , oratorio after John Milton , 1934–35
  • Trois poèmes , 1935
  • Hymn à la mort , 1936
  • Cantique d'amour , 1936
  • Le nouvel age , Sinfonia concertante for orchestra and two pianos, 1937
  • La Taille de l'Homme for 12 instruments and soprano, 1938–39
  • Stefan le Poète: Impressions d'enfance , 1939–40
  • Lorenzo il magnifico , Sinfonia concertante for soprano and orchestra, 1940
  • Variations, Fugue et Envoi on a theme by Handel , 1941

literature

  • Julian Caskel: Markevitch, Igor . In: Julian Caskel, Hartmut Hein (Hrsg.): Handbuch Dirigenten. 250 portraits . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2015, ISBN 978-3-7618-2174-9 , pp. 269-271.
  • Markevitch, Igor . In: John L. Holmes: Conductors on Record. Greenwood Press, Westport 1982, ISBN 0-575-02781-9 , pp. 421-423.
  • Markevitch, Igor . In: Stefan Jaeger (Ed.): The Atlantis Book of Conductors. An encyclopedia . Atlantis, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-254-00106-0 , pp. 250-254.
  • Jean-François Monnard : The Amazing Fate of Igor Markevitch , booklet accompanying the exhibition on the occasion of his 100th birthday in 2012 in Chillon Castle

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ http://ottowernermueller.com/
  2. ↑ The Amazing Fate of Igor Markevitch , booklet accompanying the 2012 exhibition at Chillon Castle
personal data
SURNAME Markevitch, Igor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Маркевич, Игорь Борисович; Markewitsch, Igor Borissowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer and conductor of Ukrainian origin
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1983
Place of death Antibes