Viktor Stepanovich Komarov

Viktor Stepanowitsch Komarow ( Russian Виктор Степанович Комаров ; * 1893 in Moscow ; † December 27, 1974 ibid) was a Russian church musician and choirmaster .

Life

Komarov, son of a religious family, studied at the Moscow Commercial Academy and then medicine at Moscow University , graduating as a homeopathic doctor . In addition, he pursued music studies and in 1913 passed the examination as a choir director at the Moscow Church College for Church Singing.

Komarow began his choir director activity in 1912 and led the church choirs in various Moscow churches, in particular also the choir of the Trinity Church founded by Pavel Grigoryevich Tschesnokow . When it was no longer possible to sing in Moscow, he worked in churches in the country.

1943 Komarov was the dean of Yelokhovo Cathedral Protopresbyter Nikolai Fedorovich Koltschizki the director of the choir of the Patriarch called Cathedral, he that once in the enthronement of Patriarch Sergius I participated. He organized outstanding concerts on the occasion of the enthronement of Alexius I in 1945, the 500th anniversary of the Russian Autocephalous Church in 1948, the 40th anniversary of the Moscow Patriarchate in 1957 and the enthronement of Patriarch Pimen I in 1971. He followed the traditions of Moscow Sinodal choirs as well as Serge Jaroff . Komarov's repertoire was based on the work of Dmitri Stepanowitsch Bortnjanski , Alexander Dmitrijewitsch Kastalsky , Alexander Andrejewitsch Arkhangelsky and Alexander Alexandrovich Tretyakov . The choir was closely associated with the Trinity Monastery of Sergiev Posad . He was also involved in the setting of the film Ivan the Terrible .

Komarov taught choir conducting at the Moscow Spiritual Academy and practiced as a homeopathic doctor. He found his grave at the Church of the Transfiguration of Christ in Peredelkino . The ecclesiastical exequies were chaired by Patriarch Pimen.

literature

• Schurnal Moskowskoj Patriarchiji, Moscow 1962 No. 12, 1974 No. 9, 1975 No. 3.
• MA Kovskaya, NW Shuravlyov: "Sing God with reason ..." - Viktor Stepanowitsch Komarov in the memories of his contemporaries . Works of the Moscow Choir Conducting Seminar 2000–2001 (Russian).
• Diocese of Moscow: The Easter Canon: Unknown Pages No. 3–4 / 2006 . (Russian, accessed December 18, 2015).