Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev

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Sergei Taneyev

Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev ( Russian Сергей Иванович Танеев, scientific transliteration. Sergei Ivanovich Taneev ; born 13 jul. / 25. November  1856 greg. In Vladimir ; † 6 jul. / 19th June  1915 greg. In Djutkowo in Moscow ) was a Russian composer .

Life

Taneyev came from a high background, so that he was able to deal intensively with music from early childhood. As early as 1866 he entered the Moscow Conservatory and studied piano, composition, orchestration and formal theory with such well-known personalities as Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Nikolai Rubinstein . He had a lifelong friendship with the former. In 1875 he finished his studies with a gold medal. At first Taneyev was mainly active as a pianist and went on concert tours (including to France ). In 1878 he became professor of harmony and instrumentation at the Moscow Conservatory, in 1881 he was also professor of piano and, in 1883, professor of composition. From 1885 to 1889 he was director of the conservatory, after which he preferred to only teach the subjects of counterpoint, fugue and form theory. Many of his students (e.g. Sergei Rachmaninow , Alexander Scriabin and Reinhold Glière ) developed into well-known composers. The comprehensively educated Taneyev also had a human impact. B. also interested in philosophy , shaped his students. In 1895 and 1896 Taneyev spent the summer in Yasnaya Polyana , the residence of Leo Tolstoy and his wife Sofia , who developed an affection for him and his music. In 1905 he left the conservatory. Taneyev also emerged as the author of many important musicological works and received numerous awards. In 1915 he caught a severe cold at the funeral of his student Alexander Scriabin, which was to lead to his death.

style

Taneyev initially oriented himself more towards western currents, but ultimately also turned to the national Russian movement. Throughout his life he was interested in the music of the past (he studied the works of e.g. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina , Georg Friedrich Handel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart intensively), which led to his characteristic contrapuntal mastery - it is not for nothing that he is considered to be a master of contrapuntal music as the greatest counterpoint artist in Russian music. He has often been accused of academicism and uninspired dryness, which, however, is by no means true of all of his works. For the most part, salon music was alien to him; he was more inclined to larger, more demanding works. This is evident from the fact that he wrote very little for “his” instrument, the piano; his preferences were rather in the field of vocal and chamber music. For example, it is said that he advised his students not to compose preludes but fugues .

Works

  • Orchestral works
    • Symphony No. 1 in E minor (1873/74)
    • Symphony No. 2 in B flat major (1878, only 3 movements completed)
    • Symphony No. 3 in D minor (1884)
    • Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 12 (1898)
    • Concert overture "Oresteia" op. 6 (1889, based on themes from the opera trilogy of the same name)
    • Concert Suite in G minor op.28 for violin and orchestra (1909)
    • Piano Concerto in E flat major (1876, only 2 movements completed)
  • Vocal music
  • Chamber music
    • String Quartet No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 4 (1890)
    • String Quartet No. 2 in C major op.5 (1894/95)
    • String Quartet No. 3 in D minor, op.7 (1886, rev. 1896)
    • String Quartet No. 4 in A minor, Op. 11 (1898/99)
    • String Quartet No. 5 in A major op.13 (1902/03)
    • String Quartet No. 6 in B flat major, Op. 19 (1903–05)
    • 3 string quartets published posthumously as No. 7–9 (E flat major, 1880; C major, 1883; A major, 1883)
    • String trio in D major for violin, viola and violoncello (1879/80)
    • String trio in D major op.21 for 2 violins and viola (1907)
    • String trio in E flat major op.31 for violin, viola and tenor viola (1910/11)
    • String Trio in B minor for violin, viola and violoncello (1913, partly only sketched)
    • String Quintet in G major op.14 for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos (1901)
    • String Quintet in C major op.16 for 2 violins, 2 violas and violoncello (1903/04)
    • Violin Sonata in A minor (1911)
    • Piano trio in D major op. 22 (1906-08)
    • Piano quartet in E major op.20 (1902-06)
    • Piano quintet in G minor op. 30 (1910/11)
  • Piano music
    • Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor op.29 (1910)
    • smaller pieces

A complete catalog of works can be found on the pages of the Russian Music Archive in Hanover [1] ; however, it is advisable to be careful with some of the details on this page (years, keys, etc.).

literature

  • Jan Brachmann: Waltz, polyphonic knotted: The story holds where faith no longer holds: the famous symphonies by Sergej Taneyev, triumphantly revived by the conductor Thomas Sanderling . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung June 24, 2010
  • Andreas Wehrmeyer (ed.): "Sergej Taneev - music scholar and composer" (translated from Russian by Andreas Wehrmeyer and Ernst Kuhn). Verlag Ernst Kuhn, Berlin, 1995, ISBN 3-928864-22-X
  • Wilibald Gurlitt , Carl Dahlhaus (editor): Riemann Musik-Lexikon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Taneyev, Sergei Ivanovich. 12th completely revised edition. 2. Person part L – ZB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1959, p. 769 f . (First edition: 1882).
  • Wilibald Gurlitt , Carl Dahlhaus (editor): Riemann Musik-Lexikon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Taneyev, Sergei Ivanovich. 12th completely revised edition. 5. Supplementary volume, personal section L – ZB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1972, p. 760 (first edition: 1882).

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personal data
SURNAME Taneyev, Sergei Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Танеев, Сергей Иванович (Russian); Taneev, Sergej Ivanovič
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Vladimir
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1915
Place of death Djutkowo , Moscow