Rodion Konstantinowitsch Shchedrin

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Rodion Shchedrin with his wife Maja Plisetskaya , 2009

Rodion Konstantinovič Schtschedrin ( Russian Родион Константинович Щедрин , scientific transliteration Rodion Konstantinovič Ščedrin ; English Rodion Shchedrin ; born December 16, 1932 in Moscow ) is a Russian composer and pianist .

Life

Shchedrin was born in Moscow in 1932 as the son of a composer, music teacher and violinist who served Dmitri Shostakovich as secretary during World War II . He had known Shostakovich, who would later become his sponsor, since childhood. Rodion first attended the Moscow choir school and then studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Juri Shaporin (composition) and Jakow Flier (piano). At that time he made appearances under the direction of Arvid Jansons . In 1964 he was appointed professor of composition at the Moscow Conservatory, and in 1973 at the request of Shostakovich, he was appointed President of the Russian Composers' Union as his successor. After the Red Army marched into Prague in 1968, he refused to sign a pro-Soviet declaration. His Carmen caused a scandal in the Soviet Union and was only admitted after Shostakovich intervened. He took part in several festivals in Western European countries, for example the Munich Piano Summer 1982. He became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts as early as the 1970s . His works have been performed by well-known conductors such as Leonard Bernstein , Lorin Maazel , Valery Gergiev and Mariss Jansons . On the advice of Luciano Berio, he moved to Munich in the early 1990s , which he hoped would provide greater material security during the perestroika era . After the fall of the communist regime, he received the Russian State Prize and the Dmitri Shostakovich Prize , and in December 2007 he was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, Second Class. Schtschedrin has been a member of the Academy of Arts (Berlin) since 1989 . Today he lives alternately in Munich and Moscow.

At the invitation of Walter Fink , he was the 19th composer in the annual composer portrait of the Rheingau Music Festival 2009. He introduced himself, in the presence of his wife, with chamber music and the liturgy The sealed angel . Rodion Shchedrin had been married to the prima ballerina Maja Plissezkaja , who died in 2015, since 1958, and she developed the choreographies for his ballet music several times.

His works include the ballets Anna Karenina (based on the work of the same name by Leo Tolstoy ) and Die Möwe (based on the work of the same name by Anton Chekhov ) as well as the opera Dead Souls (based on the work of the same name by Nikolai Gogol ), for which he was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1984 has been. Other works include the scenic liturgy The Sealed Angel , several symphonies and piano concertos as well as piano and chamber music.

Works

Operas

  • Not just love (Не только любовь), lyric opera in 3 acts with an epilogue; Libretto: Katanyan after Antonov; 1961/1971
  • Dead Souls (Мёртвые души), opera in three acts; Libretto: Shchedrin based on Gogol's novel Die toten Seelen ; 1976
  • Lolita (Лолита), opera in two acts; Libretto: Shchedrin based on Nabokov's novel Lolita ; 1992
  • The Enchanted Pilgrim (Очарованный странник), opera for the concert hall; Libretto: Shchedrin based on Leskov's story The Enchanted Pilgrim ; 2002
  • The Boyarin Morozova (Боярыня Морозова), Russian choral opera in two parts; Libretto: Shchedrin; 2006
  • The Left-Handed (Левша), opera in two acts; Libretto: Shchedrin based on Leskov's story Der Linkhander ; 2012-2013

Ballets

  • The humpbacked horse, after Jerschow , 1956/1983
  • Carmen Suite after Bizet , 1968
  • Anna Karenina after Tolstoy , 1971/1989
  • The seagull according to Chekhov , 1979
  • Lady with a puppy after Chekhov, 1985

Orchestral works

  • Symphony No. 1, 1958
  • Symphony No. 2, “25 Preludes” for orchestra, 1965
  • Symphonic fanfares, festival overture for orchestra, 1967
  • Solemn overture for the 60th anniversary of the USSR, 1982
  • Self-Portrait, Variations for Orchestra, 1984
  • Die Möwe, Suite for orchestra, 1984
  • Stichira (Стихира), "On the Millennium of the Christianization of Russia", 1987
  • Crystalline Gusli (Хрустальные гусли), for an anniversary by Tōru Takemitsu , 1994
  • Beethoven's Heiligenstadt Testament , 2008

Concerts and concert works

  • Piano Concerto No. 1, 1954/1974
  • Concerto for orchestra No. 1, “Freche Orchesterscherze”, 1963
  • Piano Concerto No. 2, 1966
  • Concerto for orchestra No. 2, “Bell Sounds”, 1968
  • Piano Concerto No. 3, 1973
  • Concerto for orchestra No. 3, “Old Russian Circus Music”, 1988
  • Concerto for orchestra No. 4, “Reigen” (“Хороводы”), 1989
  • Piano Concerto No. 4, “Kreuztonarten”, 1991
  • Trumpet Concerto, 1993
  • Cello Concerto, "sotto voce concerto", 1994
  • Concerto cantabile for violin and string orchestra, 1997
  • Concerto dolce for viola with string orchestra and harp, 1997
  • Concerto for orchestra No. 5, “Four Russian Songs” (“Четыре русских песни”), 1998
  • Piano Concerto No. 5, 1999
  • Piano Concerto No. 6, “Concerto lontano”, 2003
  • Concerto parlando for violin, trumpet and string orchestra, 2004
  • Symphonic Diptych, "Broken Song", 2008
  • Oboe Concerto, 2009
  • Double concerto for piano, violoncello and orchestra, “Romantic Sacrifice”, 2010

Liturgical works

  • The sealed angel, Russian liturgy according to Nikolai Leskow , 1988, CD with the Latvian State Choir, wergo 2010.

Chamber music

  • Chamber suite for 20 violins, harp, accordion and two double basses, 1961
  • Musical offering (Музыкальное приношение) for three flutes, three bassoons, three trombones and organ, 1983
  • Music for the city of Köthen for the 300th birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach. For chamber orchestra (Sikorski-Verlag SIK2281)

Piano works

  • Piano pieces (1952–1961)
    • poem
    • Four pieces from the ballet The Hunchbacked Horse
    • Humorous
    • In the style of Albéniz
    • Troika
    • Basso Ostinato
    • Two-part invention
  • Piano Sonata, 1962
  • 24 Preludes and Fugues, 1964–1970
  • Polyphonic game booklet, 25 preludes, 1972
  • Piano Sonata No. 2, 1997
  • Diary, seven pieces, 2002
  • Sonatina concertante, 2005
  • A la pizzicato, 2005
  • Simple leaves, seven impromptus (first performance 2009 by Yuja Wang in Verbier)

Solo violin

  • Echo Sonata for violin solo, Op. 69, 1984

Literary works

  • What you write is inviolable. Schott, Mainz 2008

honors and awards

Shchedrin at the ceremony for the awarding of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland by Vladimir Putin , 2008

literature

  • Valentina Nikolajewna Cholopowa : The way in the center. Approaches to the composer Rodion Shchedrin. Übers. Gabriele Leupold . Schott, Mainz 2002
  • Rodion Shchedrin in conversation with Valentina Cholopova, in Soviet Music in the Light of Perestroika. Laaber, Duisburg 1990 pp. 280-285

Web links

Commons : Rodion Konstantinowitsch Shchedrin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ complete table of contents of the book online at worldcat
personal data
SURNAME Shchedrin, Rodion Konstantinowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodion Shchedrin, Родион Константинович Щедрин
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow