Yuri Nikolayevich Golitsyn

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Yuri Nikolayevich Golitsyn

Yuri Nikolayevich Golitsyn ( Russian Юрий Николаевич Голицын , including: Galizin or Gallitzin ; born November 17 jul. / 29. November  1823 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † August 21 jul. / 2 September  1872 greg. ) Was a Russian Composer.

Life

Golitsyn was the son of Beethoven's patron Nikolai Borissowitsch Golitsyn , who founded the Petersburg Society of Music Friends and was the dedicatee of Beethoven's overture to The Consecration of the House and his last three string quartets. He studied in St. Petersburg with Gawriil Jakinowitsch Lomakin and in Leipzig with Moritz Hauptmann . In 1842 he founded a boys' choir and later an orchestra in Moscow . He toured England, Germany, France and America with the choir and orchestra. He composed two masses , two orchestral fantasies, choirs and songs .

Golitsyn was the Imperial Russian Chamberlain and Marshal of the Tambov Governorate .

literature

  • Heinz Becker, Sabine Henze-Doering (eds.): Giacomo Meyerbeer. Correspondence and diaries . Volume 7. de Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-11-018030-8 , p. 665 ( limited preview in the Google book search).