Sergei Eduardowitsch Bortkiewicz

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Sergei Eduardowitsch Bortkiewicz 1905

Sergei Eduardovich Bortkiewicz ( Ukrainian Сергій Едуардович Борткевич / Serhiy Eduardowytsch Bortkewytsch * February 16 . Jul / 28. February  1877 greg. In Kharkov , Russian Empire ; † 25. October 1952 in Vienna ) was a Russian- Ukrainian composer . He spent a large part of his life in Berlin and Vienna.

Career

Bortkiewicz studied from 1896 to 1899 in Saint Petersburg with Karl von Arek and Anatoli Lyadow and then until 1902 in Leipzig with Alfred Reisenauer , Karl Piutti and Salomon Jadassohn . From 1904 to 1914 he lived in Berlin , where he taught for a year at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory and from where he went on concert tours throughout Europe. After the outbreak of World War I , he returned to Russia.

Before the Russian Revolution he fled to his Artemovka estate near Charkow . After being looted by the Red Army , he went to Sevastopol , from where he managed to escape to Istanbul in 1920 . In 1922 he moved to Vienna . From 1928 to 1933 he lived again in Berlin. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor, he returned to Vienna. He died there in 1952 and was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (30A-3-5).

Bortkiewicz composed an opera , two symphonies , a cello, a violin and three piano concertos, several orchestral and chamber music works as well as numerous piano pieces.

He translated a selection of the 13-year correspondence between the composer Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky and his patron Frau von Meck into German, which was published in 1938 under the title The strange love of Peter Tschaikowsky and the Nadjeschda von Meck .

Works

  • op. 1 piano concerto (destroyed by the composer)
  • Op. 2 Six songs for voice and piano (based on poems by Emmy Destinn, Erna Heinemann and Heinrich Heine, 1904)
  • op.3 Four piano pieces (1906)
  • op.4 Impressions (7 piano pieces, 1905)
  • op. 5 Minuit (2 piano pieces, 1907)
  • op.6 Three piano pieces (1906)
  • op.7 Two piano pieces (1908)
  • op. 8 Esquisses de Crimée (4 piano pieces, 1908)
  • Op. 9 Piano Sonata No. 1, B major (1907)
  • op.10 Four piano pieces (1908)
  • op. 11 Six pensées lyriques (for Piano, 1909)
  • op.12 Three piano pieces (1910)
  • op.13 Six Preludes (1910)
  • op.14 From my childhood (6 easy piano pieces for the youth, 1911)
  • op.15 Ten Etudes for Piano (1911)
  • op.16 Piano Concerto No. 1, B flat major (1912)
  • op. 17 Lamentationen and Consolationen (8 piano pieces, 1914)
  • op.18 Russian Dances (for orchestra, 1914)
  • op.19 Othello (Symphonic Poem, 1914)
  • op.20 Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, C minor (in one movement, 1915)
  • op. 21 The little wanderer. 13 miniatures for piano (1922)
  • op.22 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, D minor (1922)
  • op.23 Seven poems by Paul Verlaine (song cycle, 1918)
  • op.24 Trois morceaux (for piano, 1922)
  • op.25 Three pieces for cello and piano (1922)
  • op.26 Sonata in G minor for violin and piano (1922)
  • op.27 Three Waltzes (for piano, 1924)
  • op.28 Piano Concerto No. 2 (for the left hand; composed in 1924 for Paul Wittgenstein , who also performed it successfully)
  • op. 29 Douze nouvelles Etudes "illustrées" (Twelve New Etudes, for piano, 1924)
  • op. 30 Musical picture book. From Andersen's fairy tales (12 piano pieces, 1925)
  • op.31 Russian tunes and dances (for piano four hands, 1925)
  • op. 32 Piano Concerto No. 3, C minor "Per aspera ad astra" (in one movement, 1926)
  • op.33 Dix Preludes (for piano, 1926)
  • op. 34 dreams (Nox erat - et caelo fulgebat luna serena) . A night piece for orchestra (1927)
  • op.35 A novel (8 piano pieces, 1928)
  • op.36 Sonata for Cello and Piano (1924)
  • op. 37 Arabian Nights. Oriental Ballet Suite (1926)
  • op.38 Trio for piano, violin and violoncello (1928)
  • op. 39 childhood . 14 easy piano pieces based on the novel by Lev Tolstoy (1930)
  • op.40 Seven Preludes for Piano (1931)
  • op. 41 Suite for violoncello solo
  • op.42 Ballade (for piano, 1931)
  • op. 43 Hafez songs by Hans Bethge, for voice and orchestra or organ / piano (1931)
  • op.44 Lyric Intermezzo for violin and orchestra (1934)
  • op.45 Russian Rhapsody for piano and orchestra (1935)
  • op.46 Elegy (for piano, 1932)
  • op.47 Russian poems (songs, 1932)
  • op.48 in 3/4 time (6 piano pieces, 1932)
  • op. 49 Two piano pieces (1933)
  • op. 50 acrobats (Opera, 1938)
  • op.51 Austrian Suite for String Orchestra (1939)
  • op. 52 Symphony No. 1, D major "From my homeland" (1945)
  • op.53 Overture to a fairy tale opera (1946)
  • op.54 Marionettes (9 piano pieces, 1938)
  • op.55 Symphony No. 2, E flat major (1947)
  • op. 56 In the park . Song cycle based on texts by Curt Böhmer (for voice and piano, 1946)
  • op. 57 Heitere suite for large orchestra (1939)
  • op.58 Yugoslav Suite for Orchestra (1940)
  • op. 59 Lyrica Nova (4 piano pieces, 1940)
  • Op. 60 Piano Sonata No. 2, C sharp minor (1942)
  • op. 61 Miscellana (6 piano pieces, 1941)
  • op. 62 Star flight of the heart . Seven songs based on texts by Grete Körber (for voice and piano, 1942)
  • op.63 suite for violin and piano (1945)
  • op. 64 Three Mazurken for piano (1945)
  • op.65 Four Piano Pieces (1946)
  • op.66 Preludes (6 piano pieces, 1947)
  • op.67 Four songs based on texts by Joseph Bubl (for voice and piano, 1948)
  • op.68 Tom Sawyer's Adventure (6 easy piano pieces, 1948)
  • op. 69 Three songs based on poems by Arthur Schopenhauer (1948)
  • op. 70 Cinq Esquisses de femmes (5 Piano Pieces, 1950)
  • op.71 Three melodramas (1950/51)
  • op. 72 Six Songs (1951/52)
  • op.73 Three songs (1951/52)
  • op.74 Three songs based on texts by Edmund Schwab (1952)

Documents

  • Sergei Bortkiewicz's autographs are in the holdings of 21064 Anton J. Benjamin / Hans C. Sikorski KG, Leipzig in the Saxon State Archives, Leipzig State Archives .

literature

  • Elke Paul: Sergei Bortkiewicz 1877–1952: Life and Work . Diploma thesis, Mozarteum University Salzburg, 2002
  • Ria Feldman: Musicological Notes on Sergei Bortkiewicz . In: Music of the East . Edited volumes for historical and comparative research. Vol. 6, 1972, pp. 170-188. ISSN  0580-3225
  • Sergei Bortkiewicz: memories . In: Music of the East . Edited volumes for historical and comparative research. Vol. 6, 1972, pp. 136-169. ISSN  0580-3225
  • Wouter Kalkman and Klaas Trapman: Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877–1952) . In: Pianobulletin (European Piano Teachers Association EPTA), 2002-2, pp. 3–39 (In Dutch).
  • Christoph Flamm:  Bortkevič, Sergej Ėduardovič. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 3 (Bjelinski - Calzabigi). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1113-6 , Sp. 452–455 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

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SURNAME Bortkiewicz, Sergei Eduardowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bortkevic, Sergej Eduardovic; Bortkevich, Serhiy Bortkevyc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Kharkov
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1952
Place of death Vienna