Ivan Semjonowitsch Koslowski
Ivan Semenovich Kozlovsky ( Russian Иван Семёнович Козловский , scientific. Transliteration Ivan Semenovic Kozlovskij * 11 . Jul / 24. March 1900 greg. In Marjanowka in Vasylkiv , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 21st December 1993 in Moscow ) was a Ukrainian Opera singer (tenor). Under Josef Stalin he was considered his court singer.
He was a lyrical tenor who, like Leo Slezak or Jussi Björling , could also sing a duke (in Verdi's Rigoletto ), a Faust (in Margarete ) or a Lohengrin with his timbre, thanks to his technique . One of his star roles is the fool in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov .
Life
Koslowski came from a farming family in Ukraine. At the age of seven he sang in a boys' choir . After a music teacher became aware of him, Koslowski was allowed to go to the Kiev Institute for Music and Theater ( Державний музично-драматичний інститут імені М. В. Лисенка ) at the age of 15 , which he graduated in 1919. There he was trained by his teacher Lyssenko and his wife Murawjowa, who still came from the court opera and bel canto tradition. Until the mid-1920s, he was mainly active as an opera singer in traveling theaters in several Ukrainian cities, especially in Poltava and Charkow ; In 1925 he became a soloist at the Sverdlovsk Theater.
In 1926 Koslowski was accepted into the ensemble of the Moscow Bolshoi Theater , where he was active as a soloist until 1954. In the 1930s Koslowski was considered one of the favorite musicians of the head of state Josef Stalin, on whose decree he also received the honorary title “ People's Artist of the USSR ”. Even after leaving the Bolshoi troops, Koslowski was still musically active for a long time and recorded a large number of records. At the age of 90 he still appeared in the role of Triquet in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin .
Games (selection)
- Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin : Lenski
- Mussorgski's Boris Godunov : Fool Ivan
- Wagner's Lohengrin : Lohengrin
- Verdi's Rigoletto : Duke
- Verdi's La traviata : Alfred
- Gounod's Faust (Gounod) : Dr. fist
Web links
- Record of Ivan S. Kozlovskij in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography on the history website chronos (Russian)
- Biography on peoples.ru
Individual evidence
- ↑ Iwan Koslowski: Stalin's favorite singer and rebel ( 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. in Russia TODAY January 10, 2014, accessed June 16, 2016
- ^ Biography on the Russian online encyclopedia krugosvet.ru (Russian); accessed on June 16, 2016
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| SURNAME | Koslowski, Iwan Semjonowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kozlovsky, Ivan; Козловский, Иван Семёнович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian opera singer (tenor) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marjanowka , Kyiv Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 1993 |
| Place of death | Moscow |