Vladimir Ananyevich Peskin

Vladimir Ananjewitsch Peskin ( Russian Владимир Ананьевич Пескин ., Scientific transliteration Vladimir Anan'evič Peskin ; born April 22 ^{. Jul} / 5. May  1906 ^greg. In Irkutsk , †  2. April 1988 in Moscow ) was a Russian composer .

biography

Vladimir Peskin lived in Geneva from 1914 to 1916 and received music lessons at the Académie de Musique de Genève after his father, like many other Russian revolutionaries, went into exile in Switzerland . In 1917 , the year of the revolution , he returned to Irkutsk and was accepted into the local music academy. From 1922 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory with the legendary pianist and composer Samuil Feinberg as well as with Anna Ostrovskaja and others. Due to overuse, his hands became handicapped and he had to give up piano studies. After that he turned increasingly to composition , having composed songs for his mother Vera, a singer, in his youth, many of them on his own texts. When his father was persecuted by the Stalin regime and his mother was deported to Kazakhstan , he had to support the family on his own and for this purpose worked in the 1930s as a pianist with the balalaika orchestra at the headquarters of the Red Army . There he met the young trumpet student and later world-famous virtuoso Timofei Alexandrowitsch Dokschizer (1921-2005) and became his piano accompanist. For Dokschizer, Peskin, who played the trumpet himself as an amateur , wrote a scherzo for trumpet and piano in 1937 and then a number of other extremely virtuoso works, including three concerts which, musically and technically , are among the most interesting in the classical-romantic repertoire of the trumpet.

style

Like many Soviet composers who grew up under Josef Stalin's regime , Peskin wrote in the Romantic style , although it is difficult to see how much this is due to his own inclination or the aesthetic standards of “socialist realism” , which the Soviet Union disregarded after 1933 Could result in repression . Anton Rubinstein is named as Peskin's role model , but the influences of his teacher Samuil Feinberg and Sergei Rachmaninoff are more evident in Peskin's known works .

Works

• Various songs (unreleased)
• Intermezzo for trumpet and piano
• Concerto No. 1 in C minor for trumpet and orchestra (piano version), 1948
• Concert Allegro (Concerto No. 2) in B flat minor for trumpet and orchestra (piano version), 1954
• Concerto No. 3 in F minor for trumpet and orchestra (piano version), 1971
• Concerto for clarinet and orchestra (piano version)
• Concerto for horn and orchestra (piano version)
• Melody for trumpet and piano
• Nocturne and Scherzo for Trumpet and Piano
• Poème No. 1 for trumpet and piano
• Poème No. 2 for trumpet and piano
• Poème for violin and piano
• Preludes for piano (unpublished)
• Rondo-Scherzo for trumpet and piano
• Scherzo for trumpet and piano, 1937

literature

• Сергей Васильевич Болотин: Энциклопедический биографический словарь музыкантов-испольевимхенсухухарухнителей на на ухнитыхенсурухнителей нарух. Издательство "Радуница", Москва 1995
• Edward H. Tarr : East Meets West . Pendragon Press, Hillsdale, NY, 2003, ISBN 1-57647-028-8
• Тимофей Докшицер: Трубач на коне. Издательство "Радуница", Москва 1996, ISBN 5-88123-010-8
• Timofei Dokshizer: The Memoirs of Timofei Dokshizer. To Autobiography. The International Trumpet Guild, Westfield, MA, 1997.
• Тимофей Докшицер: Пут к творчеству. Издательский дом "Муравей", Москва 1999, ISBN 5-89737-055-9
• Анатолий Селянин: Тимофей Докшицер. In: Юрий Усов (1989): Портреты советских исполнителей на духовых инструментах. Советский Композитор, Москва 1989. ISBN 5-85285-016-0