Tolia Nikiprowetzky
Tolia Nikiprowetzky (* September 12th July / September 25th 1916 greg. In Feodossija in Crimea ; † May 5th 1997 ) was a Russian composer.
Life
Nikiprowetzky studied at the Marseille Conservatory and from 1937 was a student of Simone Plé-Caussade , Louis Laloy and René Leibowitz . From 1950 to 1955 he worked for the Moroccan radio, then in Paris for the overseas radio service.
He composed, among other things, four operas ( Les Noces d'Ombre , La Fête et les Masques , Le Sourire de l'Autre and La Veuve du Héros ) and a symphony ( Symphonie Logos 5 ), an adagio and a diptych for orchestra, a saxophone -, a piano, a cello and a trumpet concerto, a concertante symphony for wind quintet and string orchestra, two major sacred works ( Numinis Sacra and Ode Funèbre ), chamber music works, piano pieces, cantatas and songs .
On behalf of Moktar Ould Daddah , the first President of Mauritania , Nikiprowetzky arranged a traditional folk tune for the national anthem of Mauritania .
literature
- In: Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea world of music - The composers - A lexicon in five volumes . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07830-7 , pp. 174, volume 4 .
Web links
- Short obituary on liberation.fr (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nikiprowetzky, Tolia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Feodosia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1997 |