Jauhen Zikozki

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Cyrillic ( Belarusian )
Яўген Карлавіч Цікоцкі
Łacinka : Jauhien Karłavič Cikocki
Transl. : Jaŭhen Karlavič Cikocki
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Евгений Карлович Тикоцкий
Transl .: Evgenij Karlovič Tikockij
Transcr .: Yevgeny Karlowitsch Tikozki

Jauhen Karla Petrovich Zikozki (born December 14 . Jul / 26. December  1893 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 23. November 1970 in Minsk ) was a Soviet composer.

Life

Zikozki, who came from a family of marines, was largely self-taught as a composer. He wrote his first compositions at the age of 14, partly advised by his friend Vladimir Deschewow . His formal music education was limited to private piano and theory lessons with S. Wolkowa-Bontsch-Brujewitsch (1912-14). From 1911 he attended the Petersburg Psychoneurological Institute, which he left in 1914 without a degree, and began studying physics and mathematics at the St. Petersburg State University . From 1915 to 1917 he was a soldier on the Russian-German front in the First World War , from 1919 to 1924 a soldier in the Red Army a . a. in the Polish-Soviet War .

In 1924 Zikozki settled in Babrujsk , where he organized a music school (1927-34). In the course of his first success as a composer, he moved to Minsk in 1934, where he worked as a music school teacher and for the radio. During the Second World War he was evacuated to Ufa and Gorky . In 1944 he returned to Minsk, where he was artistic director of the Belarusian Philharmonic (1944/45, 1953–57) and chairman of the Belarusian Composers' Union (1952–63).

Zikozki received numerous honors, including a. the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1940, 1948), the Order of Lenin (1944), the titles People's Artist of the Belarusian SSR (1953) and People's Artist of the USSR (1955), and the 1968 State Prize of the Belarusian SSR.

style

Zikozki, along with Mikalaj Tschurkin and Aljaksej Turankou, is considered the founder of Belarusian art music. His symphonies and operas are among the first Belarusian works of this genre. His tonal language is based on the music of the Mighty Heap and Richard Wagner ; newer tendencies are only sporadically (especially in later works) and very carefully taken up.

Zikozki's music is dominated by heroic and dramatic moods. An emphasis on the national component is characteristic, especially through the choice of appropriate subjects or programs and through quotations from Belarusian folk songs. Quotations from revolutionary songs can also be found in Zikozki's works (1st symphony, Carmagnole in the 6th symphony). The Soviet state label Melodija published u. a. Recordings of his symphonies No. 3, 4 and 6 as well as excerpts from his operas.

Works

  • Orchestral works
    • Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 5 (1924-27)
    • Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 19 (1940/41, rev. 1944)
    • Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, op.36 (1st version with choir 1948, 2nd version without choir 1959)
    • Symphony No. 4 in F major, Op. 50 (1955)
    • Symphony No. 5 in D major, op.53 (1958)
    • Symphony No. 6 in A major op.65 (1963)
    • Festival in Polesia , Overture op.48 (1954)
    • Ruhm , Overture op.59 (1961)
    • 50 Years , Symphonic Poetry (1966)
    • 2 suites for Belarusian folk instrument orchestra (No. 1 op.43, 1950; No. 2 op.45, 1952)
    • Concerto for piano and Belarusian folk instrument orchestra op.47 (1953, rev. For piano and orchestra 1954)
    • Trumpet Concerto op.9 (1934)
    • Film and drama music
  • Operas
    • Michas Padhorny , Opera in four acts op.18 (1939, rev. 1957)
    • Alesja , opera in four acts op. 31 (1942-44), revised as Das Fräulein aus Polesien op. 46 (1952, rev. 1953), revised again as Alesja , opera in two acts op. 74 (1965)
    • Anna Gromowa (The Robin) , Opera (1969)
  • Vocal music
    • The Liberation , Oratorio (1939)
    • Der Sturmvogel , Heroic Poem after Maxim Gorki for bass and orchestra op.11a (1918, rev. 1936), revised as Das Lied vom Sturmvogel for bass, choir and orchestra (1944)
    • Monologue of the Miserly Knight after Alexander Pushkin for bass and orchestra op.14 (1937)
    • Songs and ballads for voice and piano
    • Choirs
  • Chamber and piano music
    • Scherzo for string quartet (1943)
    • Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 8 (1935)
    • Nocturne for violoncello and piano (1941)
    • Sonata Symphony for Piano op.83 (1967)

literature

Web link

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Radaslava Aladava:  Cikocki, Jaŭhen Karlavič. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 4 (Camarella - Couture). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1114-4  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
personal data
SURNAME Zikozki, Jauhen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zikozki, Jauhen Karlawitsch (full name); Tikozki, Jewgeni Karlowitsch (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1970
Place of death Minsk