Oleg Konstantinowitsch Ejges

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Oleg Konstantinovič Ejges ( Russian Олег Константинович Эйгес , scientific transliteration Oleg Konstantinovič Ėjges , spelling of the last name also Eiges or Eyges ; * April 30th July / May 13th  1905 greg. In Moscow ; †  January 6, 1992 ibid.) Was a Russian greg. In Moscow Composer and pianist .

Life

Ejges came from a family of musicians, his father, Konstantin Romanowitsch Ejges (1875–1950), was a composer, pianist and teacher. After studying the piano, Oleg Ejges began performing as a pianist in 1927 and received further training from Egon Petri at the Berlin University of Music . He worked at the Bolshoi Theater and studied composition at the Moscow Conservatory with Heinrich Litinski, Vissarion Schebalin , Anatoli Alexandrow and Nikolai Schiljajew . After military service in the Red Army (1933-1935) and an apprenticeship at the Moscow Conservatory, he became a university teacher himself and taught at the conservatories in what was then Sverdlovsk (1939-1948) and Gorky (1949-1958) and at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow (1959) -1974).

In 1948 he was targeted by the state campaign against formalism , in the course of which the composers Shostakovich , Prokofiev , Chatschaturjan , Schebalin and Gavriil Popov were denounced for their formalistic and anti-progressive tendencies. The campaign also claimed victims away from the metropolises. Ejges was branded a formalist because of his 10th symphony and was temporarily no longer allowed to teach. In the newspaper Uralsky Rabotschij it was said: The meeting of the composers' association Sverdlovsk had found Ejges to be “guilty” of having remained “in a formalistic position alien to Soviet art”. Later symphonies found their way to a larger audience and were performed at the Moscow Autumn . However, there are very few surviving recordings of Ejges; Boris Yoffe counts him among those who were muted in the Soviet era of Socialist Realism .

Ejges composed an opera, 15 symphonies (1930–1980), 5 symphonic poems, concerts, chamber music and numerous works for piano. His music ties in with the tradition of late Romanticism , has traits of the fantastic and shows stylistic influences from Nikolai Medtner and Alexander Scriabin .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Flamm:  Ėjges, Konstantin Romanovič. In: MGG Online (subscription required).
  2. ↑ Christoph Flamm:  Ėjges, Oleg Konstantinovič. In: MGG Online (subscription required).
  3. ↑ data at dic.academic.ru (Russian)
  4. ↑ Uralskij Rabotschij, September 2, 1948, quoted from: Boris Yoffe : Im Fluss des Symphonischen . Wolke, Hofheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-95593-059-2 , pp. 207 .
  5. ↑ Boris Yoffe : In the flow of the symphonic . Wolke, Hofheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-95593-059-2 , pp. 195 .
  6. ↑ Extensive catalog raisonné (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Eiges, Oleg Konstantinowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Эйгес, Олег Константинович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1992
Place of death Moscow