Sergei Mikhailovich Slonimski
Sergei Michailowitsch Slonimski ( Russian Сергей Михайлович Слонимский ; born August 12, 1932 in Leningrad ; † February 9, 2020 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian composer , pianist and musicologist .
Life
Slonimski was the son of the Russian writer Michail Slonimski and a nephew of the Russian-American composer Nicolas Slonimsky . From 1943 to 1950 he took piano and composition lessons from Vissarion Schebalin and Boris Arapov at the Moscow School of Music . Then he studied until 1955 at the Leningrad Conservatory composition with Orest Jewlachow and completed a postgraduate course at Tigran Ter-Martirosyan. From 1959 he taught there himself, from 1967 as a lecturer and from 1976 as a professor.
In his over 100 pieces, including 8 operas, 34 symphonies and other works, Slonimski moved from twelve-tone music to a popular style, with stylistic elements of jazz and neo-romanticism in his compositional work.
For the EXPO 2000 in Hanover, Arila Siegert staged his chamber opera Der Meister und Margarita (based on Bulgakow ).
Filmography
- 1966: Republic of the Rascals (Республика ШКИД)
Web links
- Sergei Slonimski in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sergei Slonimski's homepage ( memento from June 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 28, 2018
- Information in German
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Умер композитор Сергей Слонимский. Retrieved February 9, 2020 (Russian).
- ↑ a b c Larisa Georgievna Danko: Slonimsky, Sergey Mikhaylovich. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- ^ Sergei Slonimski . In: Hermann Danuser, Hannelore Gerlach, Jürgen Köchel (eds.): Soviet music in the light of perestroika . Laaber, Laaber 1990, ISBN 3-89007-120-1 , pp. 410-412 .
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SURNAME | Slonimski, Sergei Michailowitsch |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Слонимский, Сергей Михайлович (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian composer, pianist and musicologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1932 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leningrad |
DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 2020 |
Place of death | St. Petersburg |