Rachmaninov Museum Ivanovka

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Manor in Ivanovka (2018)

The Rachmaninov Museum Iwanowka (Museum Grange SW Rachmaninov Ivanovka, Russian Музей-усадьба С.В. Рахманинова "Ивановка") is a Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff museum dedicated to the estate of Ivanovka in Oblast Tambov , about 550 kilometers southeast of Moscow .

Rachmaninoff spent the summer months in Ivanovka from 1890 until his emigration in 1917. From 1910 the estate was owned by Rachmaninoff.

Rachmaninoff in Ivanovka

SW Rachmaninov in Ivanovka (1910)

Rachmaninoff first came to Ivanovka in 1890 as a summer guest of the befriended Satin family, who owned the estate. The estate is located in the southeast of the Oka-Don plain , 50 kilometers northwest of Uwarowo and borders the village of the same name. After Rachmaninov's marriage to Natalie Satina, the landlord's daughter in 1902, the young family spent the summer months there every year. Rachmaninoffs lived in the two-story outbuilding, to which the utility rooms of the property - kitchen, storage room and laundry room - were connected on one level.

Rachmaninoff enjoyed the subtle beauty of the landscape in Ivanovka with its endless expanses, the "boundless wheat, rye and oat fields" and "the scent of earth, the aromas of everything that grows and blooms" - the estate offered Rachmaninoff the inspiration and calm Environment he needed to work on his compositions. The first work in the long list of compositions composed in Ivanovka was Romance in F minor in 1890, based on a theme by SW Rachmaninoff . In the following years he wrote 24 preludes, 9 etudes, 2 sonatas and 49 romances. Rachmaninoff worked there on the symphonic works The Rock , The Island of the Dead , the Bohemian Capriccio , the 1st and 2nd symphonies , the unfinished opera Monna Vanna , the operas The Stingy Knight and Francesca da Rimini , the liturgy of St. Chrysostom , at the Choral Symphony The Bells and the 1st , 2nd , 3rd and 4th piano concerto .

In 1910, Rachmaninov acquired the property from his father-in-law Aleksander Satin and took over the management. In winter he gave concerts and in summer he invested the money he earned in the estate. Rachmaninov bought land and livestock and modernized the agricultural machinery. He devoted himself intensively to the horses and lent a hand in the cultivation of the land. In June 1910 he wrote to Nikita Morosow: “I wasted away the whole month. Was often fishing and planting willow, a fascinating job. I bought a drill bit that digs two feet of holes in the ground and brought in willow saplings that stick out five feet of the ground. I planted 120, watered and keep watering them. [...] How great is my pleasure when I see buds of their fresh green. "

After the February Revolution in 1917 and the subsequent abdication of Tsar Nicholas II , Rachmaninoff saw no future for himself and his family in Russia due to the associated restructuring of society. He emigrated in December 1917. On June 1, 1917, he wrote to Alexander Siloti disaffected during a stay in Crimea from Yessentuki and in anticipation of future events that he would not return to his estate Ivanovka.

Museum manor

history

Outbuilding in Ivanovka (ca.1910)
reconstructed outbuilding in Ivanovka (2018)

Rachmaninov's estate was plundered and destroyed as a result of the Russian Revolution and the Tambov peasant uprising , which was commanded from Ivanovka for a time by Alexander Antonov . The remains served as a garbage dump until the late 1960s, and the former park was used as pasture.

In 1968, the regional committee of the CPSU in Tambov decided by decree measures to preserve the memory of Rachmaninov, as a result of which a memorial room was built in the village of Ivanovka. From 1971 the regional museum in Tambov rebuilt the outbuilding of the estate and, with the help of the Russian National Museum of Music and the Glinka Museum, converted the rooms into the Rachmaninov Museum. Aleksander Yermakov, a local teacher, became its director when the museum was completed in 1978. On June 18, 1982 the official opening took place on the occasion of the inauguration of a Rachmaninoff sculpture in the outdoor area.

Aleksander Yermakov and the local population have been involved in the reconstruction of Ivanovka since the early 1970s with the support of Irina Archipowa and initially reconstructed the park according to traditional reports. Three ponds were created; Trees, various types of lilac - 70 species are guaranteed in Rachmaninov's time - and flowers were planted and songbirds were released from the wild in 1976, the property was fenced in and the access road was paved. In 1987 the museum expanded to include the park and operated under the name Museum-Gutshof SW Rachmaninow Iwanowka.

Thanks to Yermakov's initiative, it was possible to reconstruct the manor house on the basis of photographs provided by Rachmaninov's sister-in-law Sofia Satina, based on the historical model and with significant financial support from the engineer Yuri Rachmaninov , and opened it on September 20, 1995.

By 2014, 6 of the former 24 buildings of the estate had been rebuilt - the manor house, the outbuilding, a garage, a warehouse, the garden house and a barn. A memorial to the Tambow peasant uprising and its suppression has been accessible since 2014. Also in 2014, a cemetery was designated on Ivanovka as a resting place for Rachmaninov's relatives, whose graves were damaged in 2007 in the village cemetery 6 kilometers away, and a rose garden was laid out.

The museum is financed by the Russian Ministry of Culture, the regional government of Tambov Oblast and donors. Iwanowka are honorary citizens due to their long-term commitment to the museum u. a. the pianists Mikhail Pletnjow and Nikolai Luganski , the piano teacher Sergei Senkow , the great-nephew of Rachmaninov's Juri Rachmaninov, who died in 2007, the opera singer Wladislaw Piawko and his wife, the opera singer Irina Archipowa, who died in 2010.

In 2018, Aleksander Jermakow used donations to purchase buildings and land belonging to the former estate and to hand them over to the regional administration for the purpose of expanding the historic estate. Nikolai Luganski financed a guest house on the premises and Mikhail Pletnjow an open-air theater for concerts.

Exhibitions

In 2015 the museum estate covered 18.5 hectares. 1122 square meters of the building out of a total of 1618 are exhibition space, on which 5644 exhibits of the 7245 objects located in Ivanovka are accessible to the public. The interior of the building was reconstructed according to the historical model, furnished with furniture and fixtures in order to remind of the contemporary world of Rachmaninoff.

The living room and dining room of the Satin family are on the ground floor of the mansion, next to them is Aleksander Satin's office and a library. Further rooms of the Satin family are accessible on the upper floor, as well as a memorial room dedicated to Yuri Rachmaninov and a concert hall with 50 seats.

In the outbuilding, Rachmaninov's living situation was modeled on: the study with a Becker wing, which was in Rachmaninov's possession for 17 years, the bedroom, children's room for the two daughters and rooms for their nanny and the housekeeper. Music rooms were set up in the utility wing in 1987.

Permanent exhibitions are located in the manor house and in the outbuilding, they give a chronological overview of the life of Rachmaninoff - his family history and youth, his early years of study in Moscow and his first compositions, document his stays in Ivanovka, are dedicated to the Satin family and illustrate Rachmaninov's exile- Years in Europe and the United States. The exhibits in the exhibition include an extensive music library and bibliography, various pianos and grand pianos - in addition to Rachmaninoff's Becker grand piano and the like. a. a Steinway Alexander Silotis and a Bechstein by the opera singer Nadeschda Sabella-Wrubel - as well as other musical instruments.

In 2014 the museum received the Central Russian Prize for Literature and Art for its cultural and educational work. In the laudation, the created museum - far away from big cities in rural seclusion without tourist infrastructure - was recognized as essential for the music culture. In 2018, the Museum-Gutshof was among the top 5 museums in Russia in the online poll 'My Favorite Museum'.

Events

Concerts

Since 1982 concerts have been held regularly in Ivanovka. In spring, a music festival is held in the park every year, where musicians and folklore groups from the region and others. a. Vladimir Fedosejew with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio , the soloists Michail Pletnjow, Juri Baschmet , Denis Mazujew and the Sveshnikov Choir took part. Nikolai Luganski has been the artistic director of the festival since 2014, which was held for the 37th time in 2018.

In 2014, the Timchenko Foundation and Nikolai Lugansky donated a Steinway grand piano to the museum , which was presented to the public on 23 August as part of a concert on the veranda of the manor house. In June of the same year the first international music festival took place in Ivanovka, which was repeated in September 2016, the artistic director was Mikhail Pletnjow.

Educational opportunities for young people, children and the elderly

Every year in August, since 2014, the museum has organized a music academy for young people in Ivanovka on the initiative of Nikolai Luganski. Master classes are offered by lecturers from the Moscow Conservatory , the Gnessin Institute and other music academies. Other music programs spread over the year, such as the youth street festival, are aimed in particular at young artists. The museum works closely with kindergartens and schools and organizes game programs and workshops on the museum premises. The music and color children's festival is held from May to October and is supervised by the Moscow artist Svetlana Ashnikov. In addition, folk festivals for children are organized - u. a. the jam day, the potato birthday, the apple day, which illustrate the rural traditions of the area.

In 2016, a multi-day creative design workshop for people with disabilities and elderly people in need of care took place for the first time with the intention of moving cultural work into the focus of social services.

Conferences

Scientific and practical conferences on the life and work of Rachmaninoff have been held on the museum grounds since 1993. In 2018 the VI. Conference on the subject of S. W. Rachmaninoff and world culture .

literature

  • Julie Anne Sadie, Stanley Sadie : Calling on the Composer: A Guide to European Composer Houses and Museums. Yale University Press 2005, ISBN 978-0-300-10750-0 , (English).
  • Jay Leyda , Sergei Bertensson, Sophia Satina: Sergei Rachmaninoff. A Lifetime in Music. Series: Russian Music Studies , Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2001, ISBN 978-0-253-21421-8 , (English).
  • MW Obedkowa: Reconstruction, role in Russian culture and youth work , ( Russian Воссоздание, Роль в российской Культуры Работа с молодежью ). GR Derschavina University Tambov 2018, (Russian).
  • Nadeschaka Sudakas: Ивановка , ( Russian Iwanowka ). In: «I'll take you through the museum» ... Stories from Russian museum employees, ( Russian Воссоздание, Роль в российской Культуры Работа с молодежью ). AST, Moscow 2017, ISBN 978-5171-0408-71 , (Russian), pp. 145 to 155.

Movie

Web links

Commons : Rachmaninov Museum Ivanovka  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jay Leyda , Sergei Bertensson, Sophia Satina: Sergei Rachmaninoff. A Lifetime in Music. Series: Russian Music Studies , Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2001, quote: “boundless fields of wheat, rye, oats, […] with its aroma of earth and all that grows and blossom […].” ( Limited preview in Google Book search, English)
  2. ↑ Музей-усадьба Сергея Рахманинова "Ивановка". Onlinetambov.ru, accessed December 12, 2018 (Russian).
  3. ↑ Jay Leyda , Sergei Bertensson, Sophia Satina: Sergei Rachmaninoff. A Lifetime in Music. Series: Russian Music Studies , Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2001, quote: “Up till now the whole month has been spent dillydallying. I often fish, and plant willows. The latter occupation was and still is fascinating. For it I bought a bore, with which I bore holes two feet deep, and then plant willow cuttings that stand five feet above the earth. I've set out 120 of these. I watered and continue to water them with an accuracy […] But how great is my rapture when I see a fresh bud of a young green leaf. "( Limited preview in the Google book search, English)
  4. ↑ a b Михаил Плетнев и РНО провели первый Международный фестиваль в Ивановке. Rossijskaja gaseta , June 18, 2014, accessed December 11, 2018 (in Russian).
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  11. ↑ На концерте Николая Луганского в Ивановке. Belcanto.ru, August 29, 2014, accessed December 9, 2018 (Russian).
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  14. ↑ VI Международная научно-практическая конференция «С. В. Рахманинов и мировая культура »17-18 May 2018 года. Glinka Museum, May 3, 2018, accessed December 9, 2018 (Russian).

Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 50.5 ″  N , 41 ° 34 ′ 34.5 ″  E