Mikhail Alexejewitsch Kuzmin

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Mikhail Kuzmin. A portrait (1909) by the painter Konstantin Somow

Mikhail Kuzmin ( Russian Михаил Алексеевич Кузмин ; born October 6 . Jul / 18th October  1872 greg. In Yaroslavl , Russian Empire ; † 3. March 1936 in Leningrad , Soviet Union ) was a Russian writer and composer. While he remained largely unknown as a composer, he has gained more importance as a writer of the so-called " Silver Age ".

Life

Mikhail Kuzmin came from a noble family. In 1885 the family moved to Saint Petersburg. At the St. Petersburg Conservatory he studied music with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov from 1891 to 1894. He later lived as a freelance writer.

He wrote poems, novels and plays. As a composer he wrote operettas, singing games and pantomimes, but remained completely unknown in this area. Kuzmin died of pneumonia in the Kuibyshev Hospital in Leningrad.

Michail Kusmin spoke fluent German and Italian.

Work (selection)

  • Istoriia rystsaria de Alessio (1905), play
  • Grand piano (1906)
  • Alexandrian Chants, 1906, poems
  • The Adventures of Aime Leboeuf, (1907), novel
  • The Miraculous Life of Joseph Balsamo Count Cagliostro (1910), novel
  • Music box of love (1910), poems
  • Sir John Fairfax's Travels through Turkey and Other Notable Countries (1923, illustrated by Karl Rössing ) Unmodified reprint: Westhafen Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-942836-02-9
  • The Green Nightingale, 1918 (1905, Russian Зелёный соловей: Пятая книга рассказов) a selection of short novels and prose miniatures about love.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Copy of the birth certificate dated November 15, 1872

Web links

Commons : Michail Kusmin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files