Yuri Sergeyevich Sakhnovsky

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Juri Sergejewitsch Sachnovsky ( Russian Юрий Сергеевич Сахновский , scientific transliteration Jurij Sergeevič Sachnovskij , also Yuri Sergeevich Sakhnovsky; 1866-1930) was a Russian composer , conductor and music critic .

life and work

Sachnowski attended high school and initially studied music independently. 1895–1899 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory (harmony course with AS Arensky , counterpoint class SI Taneyev ), where he graduated with a major silver medal in the composition class of M. M Ippolitow-Ivanov . He was friends with R. Glière and S. Rachmaninoff . Since 1901 he published (in the newspapers Kurjer (Курьер), Russkiye Vedomosti u. A.) Article about the works of AN Scriabin , Rimsky-Korsakov and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Since 1906 he was a member of the management of the Moscow branch of the Russian Music Society (IRMO). After the revolution he worked in the concert policy department of the music department of NARKOMPROS . His final work was a cantata for solos, choir and orchestra (based on Goethe's Erlkönig , in a translation by Wassili Schukowski ), which was premiered in the Säulensaal . He wrote instrumental and vocal works. Most of the works remained in the manuscript; he mainly published romances and choruses. As a conductor he appeared in symphonic events of the IRME Music Institute with his own works in the historical concerts founded by SN Wassilenko . He worked with church choirs.

Sachnowski played a prominent role in the development of choral art in Russia. In his secular choral works he set texts by I. Bunin , Heinrich Heine (translation A. Maikow ), M. Lochwizkaja , A. Fet to music . They were recently included in the anthology of Russian secular a cappella choral music from the 19th to the early 20th centuries (Volume 17).

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ specialradio.ru: Юрий Сергеевич Сахновский (Виктор Каширников) - accessed on July 22, 2019
  2. ↑ cf. Table of contents for Антология хоровой музыки a cappella. Вып. 17. Сахновский (with some music samples) (Russian)

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SURNAME Sachnowski, Yuri Sergejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Юрий Сергеевич Сахновский (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian composer, conductor and music critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1866
DATE OF DEATH 1930