Sergei Mikhailovich Slonimski

Sergei Mikhailovich Slonimski (2006)

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 .

personal data
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

[obit-1] Умер композитор Сергей Слонимский. Retrieved February 9, 2020 (Russian).

[ng-2] Larisa Georgievna Danko: Slonimsky, Sergey Mikhaylovich. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).

[dan-3] 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 .