Pavel Grigoryevich Chesnokov
Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov ( Russian Павел Григорьевич Чесноков , scientific. Transliteration Pavel Grigor'evic Cesnokov ; October 12 * . Jul / 24. October 1877 greg. In Ivanovskoe in Zvenigorod , † 14. March 1944 in Moscow ) was a Russian composer and choirmaster . He composed over five hundred choral works, including around four hundred sacred works. Nowadays he is best known for his piece Spaseniye sodelal ( famous in the US as Salvation is Created ).
Life
Tschesnokov sang in his father's choir at the age of five and entered the Moscow Synodal School at the age of seven. While still at school he was taught by university teachers such as Stepan Smolenski , Sergej Taneyev and Michail Ippolitow-Ivanov and gained experience as a choir director. From 1913, Tschesnokow studied piano, violin and free composition with Sergei Wassilenko at the Moscow Conservatory . He made a name for himself as the choirmaster of the Russian Choral Society. By 1917 Tschesnokov had already composed around four hundred sacred choral works, and with the ban on sacred artistic creation after the October Revolution , he continued to write around a hundred secular choral works, which he performed with choirs such as the Moscow Academic Choir and the Bolshoi Theater Choir . From 1920 he taught choir conducting at the Moscow Conservatory and from 1921 as a professor, a position he held until the end of his life.
When the Cathedral of Christ the Savior (of which he was the last choir director) was demolished in 1931 , Chesnokov stopped his work as a composer and concentrated on his professorship at the Conservatory. He died in 1944 at the age of 66.
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Pavel Grigoryevich Tschesnokow in the International Music Score Library Project
- Sheet music in the public domain by Pawel Grigorjewitsch Tschesnokow in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
- Nikolaj Matwejew: In memory of the composer Pawel Tschesnokow, in: Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate 1978, No. 3, pp. 18-23. Translation by Klaus Bambauer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aleksej Naumov: Česnokov, Pavel Grigor'evič. In: MGG Online (subscription required).
- ↑ biography on dic.academic.ru
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| SURNAME | Tschesnokow, Pavel Grigoryevich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Чесноков, Павел Григорьевич (Russian); Česnokov, Pavel Grigor'evič |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian composer and choir director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ivanovskoye near Zvenigorod |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1944 |
| Place of death | Moscow |