Mikhail Fabianowitsch Gnessin

Mikhail Gnessin Fabianowitsch ( Russian Михаил Фабианович Гнесин ; born January 21 ^{. Jul} / 2. February 1883 ^greg. In Rostov-on-Don , Russian Empire , died 5. May 1957 in Moscow ) was a Russian composer .

Life

His father Fabian Ossipowitsch Gnessin was a rabbi and his mother Bella Issajewna Gnessina (née Fletsinger) had studied piano before giving up a possible musical career in favor of raising her children. Gnessin studied with Georgi Konjus in Moscow in 1899 and from 1901 to 1909 at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow , Anatoli Lyadow and Alexander Glasunow . After the revolution of 1905 he was suspended from his studies for a year because of agitation. After a stay in Germany, he taught in Jekatarinodar from 1911 to 1913 and in Rostov until 1921. After stays in Palestine in 1914 and 1921 and a stay in Germany in 1921, where he was one of the founders of the Berlin-based Jewish music publisher Jiwneh , he taught composition from 1923 to 1935 at the music school in Moscow founded by his sister. He worked at the Leningrad Conservatory until 1944 , then again at his sister's music school until 1951. Gnessin composed works for orchestra, for choir and orchestra, chamber music, piano pieces, choirs, songs , drama music and folk song arrangements . He was an Honored Artist of the RSFSR and received the Stalin Prize in 1946 .

Gnessin's sister Jelena Gnessina founded a private music school in Moscow in 1893, today's Gnessin Institute . She composed etudes and children's pieces for piano.

Grave site in the Novodevichy Cemetery

Works (selection)

Funeral dances for orchestra
Ballad for cello and orchestra
Symphonic monument for choir and orchestra
Dithyrambos for voice and orchestra
requiem
Variations on a Hebrew Folk Song for String Quartet
Song of a traveling knight for harp and string quartet
Elegie pastoriale for piano trio
Ballad for piano trio
The Red Army , choir cantata

literature

Marina Lobanova: Gnesin, Mikhail Fabianoviĉ. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 7 (Franco - Gretry). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7618-1117-9 , Sp. 1165–1167 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Marina Lobanova: Jelena Fabianovna Gnessina . In: Music and Gender on the Internet (MUGI) of the Hamburg University of Music and Theater , April 6, 2011, accessed on June 6, 2018.
Kadja Grönke, Freia Hoffmann: Gnessina, Gnessin, Gnesina, Gnesin, Schwestern . Sophie Drinker Institute for Musicological Women and Gender Studies, accessed on June 6, 2018.
↑ ^a ^b Encyclopaedia Judaica , Volume VIII, p. 648
^ Jascha Nemtsov: The new Jewish school in music . Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2004, p. 119

personal data
SURNAME	Gnessin, Michail Fabianowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Гнесин, Михаил Фабианович (Russian); Gnesin, Mihail Fabianovich (scientific transliteration); Gnesin, Michail Fabianoviĉ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian composer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 2, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rostov on Don
DATE OF DEATH	May 5th 1957
Place of death	Moscow

[1] Marina Lobanova: Jelena Fabianovna Gnessina . In: Music and Gender on the Internet (MUGI) of the Hamburg University of Music and Theater , April 6, 2011, accessed on June 6, 2018.
Kadja Grönke, Freia Hoffmann: Gnessina, Gnessin, Gnesina, Gnesin, Schwestern . Sophie Drinker Institute for Musicological Women and Gender Studies, accessed on June 6, 2018.

[EJ-2] Encyclopaedia Judaica , Volume VIII, p. 648

[3] Jascha Nemtsov: The new Jewish school in music . Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2004, p. 119