Natalja Mikhailovna Pravosudovich

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Gravestone in the Evangelical Cemetery in Merano

Natalya Mikhailovna Prawossudowitsch ( Russian Наталья Михайловна Правосудович ., Scientific transliteration Natal'ja Michajlovna Pravosudovič , variations of the first name often Natalie , isolated Natasha , born August 2, jul. / 14. August  1899 greg. In Vilnius , Russian Empire ; †  2nd September 1988 in Meran , Italy ) was a Russian composer .

Life

As the daughter of a pianist, she received piano lessons at an early age. From 1918 she studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, first piano with Vera Scriabin, then until 1923 composition and music theory with Sergei Lyapunow . She completed her studies with Alexander Glasunow in 1925 with a diploma. Glasunow, the director of the conservatory at the time, gave her permission to leave the country in 1928 and wrote a letter of recommendation to Arnold Schönberg - with the request to continue her composition studies in Berlin .

So she became a master student of Schönberg from autumn 1928 at the Prussian Academy of the Arts - among her fellow students were Nikos Skalkottas , Peter Schacht , Alfred Keller and Norbert von Hannenheim . She made her breakthrough as a composer in Berlin. But at this time the political persecution of her family began in the Soviet Union , in 1929 her mother, her father, professor and railway engineer died in Leningrad , was arrested with a group of colleagues on charges of sabotage and taken to a labor camp on Solovetski -Islands near Arkhangelsk , where he was sentenced to death and shot on October 29, 1929 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn will later deal with the history of this first large Soviet camp in the book Archipelago Gulag . Against the background of family and financial problems, her state of health deteriorated significantly. In 1931 she moved to Merano and from then on lived in the Borodine Foundation there, an institution for sick Russian exiles.

Villa Borodine

New compositions were created, including a concerto for string quartet and chamber orchestra, which Schönberg accepted as a diploma thesis in 1932. From 1941 she worked as a language teacher and seamstress. She only started composing again in 1956. Several of her works were performed in Italy and Germany, and with an early piano sonata she won first prize at the Premio Helena Rubinstein , an international composition competition in Buenos Aires in 1962 . She was a member of the International Working Group on Women and Music . Despite increasing blindness, she remained active as a composer until 1983.

She left behind orchestral, choral works, songs, piano and chamber music. Stylistically, she was committed to the tradition of Russian late romanticism and the Scriabin succession.

literature

  • Bianca Marabini Zoeggeler, Michail Grigorjewitsch Talalaj: Music in exile: the Schönberg pupil Natalia Prawossudowitsch . Folio, Vienna, Bozen 2003, ISBN 3-85256-255-4 .
  • Peter Gradenwitz : composer from Russia. Natalie Pravosudovich . In: Peter Gradenwitz (Ed.): Arnold Schönberg and his master students. Berlin 1925–1933 . Paul Zsolnay, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-552-04899-5 , p. 247-257 .
  • Antje Olivier, Karin Weingartz-Perschel: Pravossudowitsch, Natalie Michajlovna . In: composers from A to Z . Tokkata, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-9801603-0-0 , p. 252 .

Web links

Commons : Natalja Pravossudowitsch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Silke Wenzel: Natalie Prawossudowitsch. In: MUGI. Music education and gender research: Lexicon and multimedia presentations. Beatrix Borchard, Nina Noeske, Hamburg University of Music and Theater, 2008 .;

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Silke Wenzel: Natalie Prawossudowitsch. In: MUGI. Music education and gender research: Lexicon and multimedia presentations. Beatrix Borchard, Nina Noeske, Hamburg University of Music and Theater, 2008 .;
  2. ↑ a b c Peter Gradenwitz: composer from Russia. Natalie Pravosudovich . In: Peter Gradenwitz (Ed.): Arnold Schönberg and his master students. Berlin 1925–1933 . Paul Zsolnay, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-552-04899-5 , p. 247-257 .
  3. ↑ Information from Memorial , a Russian archive on political persecution
  4. ↑ On the history of the Borodine Foundation
  5. ^ A b c Antje Olivier, Karin Weingartz-Perschel: Pravossudowitsch, Natalie Michajlovna . In: composers from A to Z . Tokkata, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-9801603-0-0 , p. 252 .
personal data
SURNAME Pravossudowitsch, Natalja Michailovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Правосудович, Наталья Михайловна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilna
DATE OF DEATH 2nd September 1988
Place of death Meran