Viktor Sergeyevich Kalinnikov

Viktor Sergeyevich Kalinnikow ( Russian Виктор Сергеевич Калинников ; born February 18 ^{. Jul} / 2. March  1870 ^greg. In the village Woiny at Orlov ; † 23. February 1927 in Balashikha ) was a Russian musicologist , composer and choir director .

Life

Kalinnikow, son of a police officer and younger brother of the composer Vasily Sergejewitsch Kalinnikow , grew up in poor circumstances. Like his brother, he studied oboe and music theory at the spiritual seminary in Oryol and then at the music-drama school of the Moscow Philharmonic Society .

1897-1923 Kalinnikow was a lecturer at the Moscow Synodal College of Church Singing , which was headed by AD Kastalsky (after the October Revolution Choral Academy of the People ). 1899–1901 he directed the orchestra of the Music-Dramatic School of the Moscow Philharmonic Society . After the Russian Revolution in 1905 , Kalinnikov, along with others, organized the Moscow People's Conservatory in 1906 . 1922–1926 he taught at the Moscow Conservatory .

Kalinnikow worked as a choir director at various Moscow schools and music theaters. He composed ecclesiastical choral works, especially for the choir of the Moscow Synodal College for Church Singing , but also secular choral songs (for example The Forest , On the Old Burial Mound , The Lark , Elegy , The Sun, The Sun Rises ) and also children's songs ( Ten-th , The crane and others). He arranged Russian folk songs and set up Die Internationale and Marseillaise for choir. He also created symphonic music and chamber music .

In 2009 the Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory presented all of Kalinnikov's secular choral works in the Great Hall of the Conservatory under the direction of Boris Tevlin .

literature

• Musica Russica: Victor Kalinnikov (1870–1927) (accessed January 5, 2016).
• Great Soviet Encyclopedia , Volume 2, Moscow 1954, p. 18 (Russian).