Nikolai Tichonowitsch Berezovsky

Nikolai Tichonowitsch Berezovsky ( Russian Николай Тихонович Березовский * May 4. ^{. Jul} / 17th May  1900 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 27. August 1953 in New York City ) was a Russian composer and violinist .

Life

Berezowski was trained at the Imperial Chapel of St. Petersburg. He was concert master of the Saratov Opera and first violinist at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow . In 1920 he left Soviet Russia and studied violin with Robert Pollack in Vienna. From 1922 he lived in the USA, where he was a member of the New York Philharmonic from 1923 to 1929 . During this time he also studied violin with Paul Kochanski and composition with Rubin Goldmark at the Juilliard School . He later worked as a violinist with the Coolidge String Quartet and as a conductor with the CBS Orchestra.

Berezowski composed four symphonies , a sinfonietta, a violin, a viola and a cello concerto, a toccata with variations and finals for string quartet and orchestra, two wind quintets, two string quartets and a sextet for strings as well as a poem for eleven instruments. Conductors such as Serge Kussewitzky and Eugene Ormandy campaigned for his works.

His first wife was Alice Louise (the sister of chemist Melvin Spencer Newman and the granddaughter of Isidore Newman , banker and philanthropist from New Orleans ). She had 2 children. His second wife was Judith.

literature

• Don Michael Randel: The Harvard concise dictionary of music and musicians . Harvard University Press, 1999, p. 65. ISBN 978-0-674-00084-1 . (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Stevenson:  Berezowsky, Nikolai. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Malcolm Hamrick Brown:  Berezovskij, Nikolaj Tichonovič. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 2 (Bagatti - Bizet). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1112-8  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
3. ↑ Information from SNAC