Isai Alexandrovich Braudo

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Jesse (Isaja) Alexandrovich Braudo ( Russian Исай (Исайя) Александрович Браудо * July 28 . Jul / 9. August  1896 greg. In Boyarka ; † 11. March 1970 in Leningrad ) was a Ukrainian - Soviet musicologist , organist and university teachers .

Life

Braudo, son of the historian Alexander Issajewitsch Braudo and his wife Lyubow Ilyinichna born. Harkavy, took piano lessons at an early age a. a. with Samuil Maikapar and Alexander Siloti . He began his studies at the Petrograd Conservatory in 1914 in the organ class with Jacques Handschin and switched to the pianoforte course in 1915 (until 1918). To this end, he was a student at the Moscow Conservatory in the pianoforte class of Alexander Goldenweiser from 1915 to 1918 . He also studied medicine at Moscow University .

1921–1923 Braudo studied again in the organ class of the Petrograd Conservatory with Nikolajs Vanadziņš and then began to teach there (from 1935 as a professor), especially since Vanadziņš had left for Latvia . He also led the piano class at the Central Music Technology Center in Moscow . 1924–1926 he continued his education in Western Europe with Louis Vierne in Paris , Fritz Heitmann in Berlin , Alfred Sittard in Hamburg and Günther Ramin in Leipzig .

In 1926 Braudo began his independent concert activity . He left behind a number of writings, mainly on his organ repertoire, from Pérotin to Buxtehude , Bach and Handel . Nina Oksentjan , Wahagn Stambolzjan , Wladimir Nilsen and Arseni Kotljarewski were among his students . Braudo's essays on the art of organ playing are in the book Articulation . About Playing the Melody (1961) included.

A Passacaglia by Christofor Kuschnarjow and the poem Memories of Professor Braudo by Joseph Brodsky were dedicated to Braudo .

Braudo was married to Lidija Nikolajewna geb. Tschernoswitowa (1910–1985), who was married to the architect Georgi Schchuko in her first marriage . Braudo's daughter Anastasija Isajewna (* 1942) became an organist and harpsichordist and was married to the composer Boris Tishchenko . Braudo's sister was the artist Nadezhda Braudo (1894–1976), who married the poet and artist Léon Zack .

On Braudo's 100th birthday, a large organ festival was held in St. Petersburg . In 2014 the 2nd International Braudo Organ Competition of the St. Petersburg Conservatory took place.

Honor

  • Honored Artist of the RSFSR

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Браудо И .: Об органной и клавирной музыке . Музыка, Leningrad 1976, p. 3 .
  2. ^ Douglas Bush, Richard Kassel (ed.): The Organ: An Encyclopedia . Routledge, 2004, pp. 480 .
  3. ↑ Braudo Isai. In: Rossiskaya Evreiskaya Enziklopedija. July 11, 2009 (Russian).;
  4. ↑ Михаил Мищенко: Человек из легенды, человек парадоксов. In: Kommersant . June 26, 1996 (Russian).;
  5. ↑ St. Petersburg Conservatory: The Second International Organ Braudo-Competition ( Memento from November 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 21, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Braudo, Isai Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Браудо, Исай Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian-Soviet musicologist, organist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Boyarka
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1970
Place of death Leningrad