Nikolai Nikolayevich Cherepnin
Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin ( Russian Николай Николаевич Черепнин ; May 3 . Jul / 15. May 1873 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 26. June 1945 in Issy-les-Moulineaux ) was a Russian composer .
life and work
Tscherepnin studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and led an orchestral class here as a professor until 1918. As a conductor and composer, he was also a guest in Paris with Sergei Djagilew's Ballets Russes from 1909 to 1914 . From 1918 to 1921 he was director of the Conservatory and Opera of Tbilisi . He then lived in Paris , where he directed the Conservatory for Russian Music from 1925 to 1929 and from 1938 to 1945.
In addition to his adaptation and completion (1923) of the opera The Sorotschinzy by Modest Mussorgsky , Tscherepnin composed two operas Swat - The marriage broker (1930) and Vanka the valet (1933), ballets , chamber music works, an oratorio ( The Walk of the Mother of God through the Places of Torment ), a cantata , piano pieces, choirs and songs .
An important (conducting) pupil was Sergei Prokofjew , whom he inspired to write his 1st Symphony Classique .
Tscherepnin's son Alexander Tscherepnin became known as a composer and pianist. His grandsons Ivan and Serge were also composers.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Albrecht Gaub: Čerepnin, Nikolai Nikolaevich. In: MGG Online (subscription required).
- ↑ biography on dic.academic.ru
- ↑ Catalog raisonné in the Russian Music Archive
- ↑ Information on the website of the Tscherepnin Society
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Tscherepnin, Nikolai Nikolajewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Черепнин, Николай Николаевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1945 |
| Place of death | Issy-les-Moulineaux |