Konstantin Dmitrijewitsch Balmont
Konstantin Balmont ( Russian Константин Дмитриевич Бальмонт ; * 3. jul. / 15. June 1867 greg. On the estate Gumnischtschi at Vladimir ; † 23. December 1942 in Noisy-le-Grand in Paris ) was a Russian poet of symbolism from the so-called silver age of Russian poetry.
The influence of symbolism was already noticeable in his first collection of poems, Under the Northern Sky, from 1894. 1903 followed Be like the sun , which also gained some popularity. Igor Stravinsky wrote the cantata Le Roi des étoiles in 1911/12 based on a poem by Balmont. Other poets, especially Alexander Blok , subsequently overtook Balmont; his works after 1910 are generally considered mediocre. Balmont, who was initially inclined to communism , later rejected it; In 1920 he emigrated to France, where he was already before the First World Warhad stopped. He translated a number of Western classics into Russian, including Henrik Ibsen and Edgar Allan Poe . Some of these editions are still available today, but are considered to be unsuccessful in their transfers of the poetic style. Sergei Rachmaninoff's choral work Die Glocken , op 35, was created on the basis of a very free translation, almost a repositioning of the four Poe works by Balmont. Sergei Prokofjew dedicated his 3rd Piano Concerto (1917–21) to Balmont. Balmont thanked him for the dedication with a symbolist sonnet , which is intended to represent his poetic impression of the work on him as a listener. He died in "loneliness, misery, sickness of the soul" in his exile.
Works (selection)
- Underwater plants. Poems. Selection . Translation and preface by Christoph Ferber. Raute, Dresden 2012
literature
- Ilja Ehrenburg : Memoirs. People - Years - Life I 1891-1922 , Munich 1962, special edition Munich 1965 pages 167-174, ISBN 3-463-00511-5 .
- Hildegard Schneider : The early Balmont. Investigations into his imagery , Munich 1970.
- Silvia Althaus-Schönbucher: Konstantin D. Balmont: Parallels to Afanasij A. Fet: Symbolism and Impressionism , Bern 1975.
Web links
- Literature by and about Konstantin Dmitrijewitsch Balmont in the catalog of the German National Library
- Balmont's biography on a Russian website dedicated to the Silver Age
- Article Konstantin Dmitrijewitsch Balmont in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- Biography , Slowo
- Biography , Krugosvet
- Biography , Russian writer. Bibliographic manual
- Works in the Komarov library (Russian)
- Works by Konstantin Dmitrijewitsch Balmont in the Gutenberg-DE project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ilja Ehrenburg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Balmont, Konstantin Dmitrievich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian lyric poet, poet of Russian modernism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gumnishchi |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 23, 1942 |
| Place of death | Noisy-le-Grand |