Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi

Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi, ca.1913

Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi, 1909 ( Leon Bakst )

Michel Calvocoressi , actually Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi , (born October 2, 1877 in Marseille , † February 1, 1944 in London ) was a British music critic of Greek origin.

Life

Around 1895 Calvocoressi came to Paris to study music. After successfully completing his studies, he began writing as a music critic for various Parisian newspapers and magazines. As an enthusiastic friend of both classical and modern Russian music, he began to learn the Russian language in order to gain access to the lyrics. Later he occasionally reviewed publications of Russian musical literature.

Around 1915 Calvocoressi went to Great Britain and settled in London. In addition to his journalistic work, an almost literary work emerged over time. Among other things, he also translates Russian and German songs and opera libretti into English.

Calvocoressi was a member of the French artists' association Les Apaches .

Calvocoressi was a distant relative of Ion and Peter Calvocoressi .

Works (selection)

• Debussy . London 1941.
• Glinka . Paris 1911.
• Liszt . Paris 1906.
• Masters of Russian Music . London 1936 (with Gerald Abraham ).
• Musical taste and how to form it . London 1925.
• Musicians' Gallery. Musc and ballet in Paris and London . London 1933.
• La musique russe . Paris 1907.
• Mussorgsky . New edition London 1956.
• The principles and methods of musical criticism . New edition London 1933.
• Schumann . Paris 1912.

literature

• Nicolas Slonimsky : Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi . In: Ders .: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians . 8th edition Schirmer, London 2001, ISBN 0-02-865525-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi in the catalog of the German National Library