Who composed 'The Little Russian Symphony'?
"1 in B-flat minor"", as well as the American premiere of the Introduction and Wedding Procession from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera ""The Golden Cockerel""; the concert also featured Rimsky-Korsakov's ""Christmas Eve Suite"" and the American premiere of a waltz that Tchaikovsky had written for ""The Nutcracker"" but omitted from the final version, and closed with Tchaikovsky's ""Marche Slave"". The February 2 concert featured the American premiere of Robert Kajanus' ""Finnish Rhapsody"", a return of Rachmaninoff's ""The Rock"" (which they had played in their second concert ever), and the return of violinist Kathleen Parlow performing the abovementioned Wieniawski concerto. Russian Symphony Orchestra Society"
"Russian Rhapsody (Rachmaninoff) Russian Rhapsody is a piece for two pianos in E minor composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1891, when he was 18 years old. It is more accurately described as a set of variations on a theme, rather than a true rhapsody. It was premièred on October 29, 1891, and its performance lasts approximately nine minutes. While still a student at Moscow Conservatory, Rachmaninoff wrote to Natalia Skalon on mentioning that he had begun work on a piece for two pianos that he wanted to play with Alexander ""Sasha"" Siloti. He dated the manuscript January 12–15, 1891 ,"
"Russian Symphony Concerts The idea for the Russian Symphony Concerts was Rimsky-Korsakov's. He had become acquainted with Belyayev at the weekly ""quartet Fridays"" (""Les Vendredis"") held at Belayev's home. Belayev had already taken a keen interest in the musical future of the teenage Alexander Glazunov, who had been one of Rimsky-Korsakov's composition students. In 1884, Belayev rented out a hall and hired an orchestra to play Glazunov's First Symphony plus an orchestral suite Glazunov had just composed. Glazunov was to conduct part of this concert. Seeing he was not ready to do this, Rimsky-Korsakov volunteered to take his place. This"
"pieces for no apparent reason, since it could not have been the ability of the performers that caused him to do so. It is natural for a composition of variations to repeat the theme, but it is noted that the Rhapsody lacks the textural contrast shown in his later works, although it is very virtuosic and brilliant. Russian Rhapsody (Rachmaninoff) Russian Rhapsody is a piece for two pianos in E minor composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1891, when he was 18 years old. It is more accurately described as a set of variations on a theme, rather than a true"
"Three Russian Songs, Op. 41 (Rachmaninoff) The Three Russian Songs, Op. 41 (""Trois Chansons Russes""; ""Tri Russkie Pesni"") for chorus and orchestra (also seen as ""Three Russian Folk Songs"") were written by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1926. It is the last of Rachmaninoff's three works for chorus and orchestra, the others being the cantata ""Spring"", Op. 20 (1902), and the choral symphony ""The Bells"", Op. 35 (1913). The work takes about 15 minutes to perform. The thematic material for the work came from three traditional folk songs: The ""Three Russian Songs"" were dedicated to Leopold Stokowski, who conducted the first performance"
"Arkady Ostrovsky Arkady (Avraam) Il'ich Ostrovsky (also spelled Ostrovskij, Ostrovskyj ) (February 25 , 1914 – September 18, 1967) was a Soviet Russian composer of light music, the author of the song ""May There Always Be Sunshine"" and other Soviet songs of the 1960s, including the lullaby of ""Good Night, Little Ones"", the children's TV program aired for more than 50 years. Ostrovsky was born to a Jewish family in Syzran. From 1927 on, he lived in Leningrad. He worked in Leonid Utyosov's Jazz Orchestra from 1940 to 1947 and composed his first works. He died in Sochi. In 2009,"
"Petite Suite (Borodin) The Petite Suite is a suite of seven piano pieces, written by Alexander Borodin, and acknowledged as his major work for the piano. It was published in 1885, although some of the pieces had been written as far back as the late 1870s. After Borodin's death, Alexander Glazunov orchestrated the work, and added his orchestration of another of Borodin's pieces as an eighth number. The suite was dedicated to the Belgian Countess Louise de Mercy-Argenteau, who had been instrumental in having Borodin's First Symphony performed in Verviers and Liège. She had also arranged for French translations of"
"Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist and conductor of the late Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the Romantic repertoire. Born into a musical family, Rachmaninoff took up the piano at age four. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1892 having already composed several piano and orchestral pieces. In 1897, following the negative critical reaction to his Symphony No. 1, Rachmaninoff entered a four-year depression and composed little until successful therapy allowed him to complete his enthusiastically received Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1901. For"
"during his summer holiday at Kamianka (Kamenka) in Ukraine with his sister Aleksandra's family, the Davydovs. The Davydov estate had become the composer's favorite refuge. Alexandra had, in fact, encouraged the composer to make Kamenka his second home. His affection for the estate bore fruit in his using local songs in the symphony he was writing. He even once wrote, in jest, that true credit for the ""Little Russian's"" finale should have gone ""to the real composer of the said work—Peter Gerasimovich."" Gerasimovich, the elderly butler in the Davydov household, sang the folk-song ""The Crane"" to Tchaikovsky while the composer"
"dated from considerably earlier. When the composer's aunt, Nadezhda Galli-Shohat, first heard the work at its American premiere by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, she recognised in it many fragments she had heard young Mitya play as a child. Some of these fragments were associated with La Fontaine's retelling of Aesop's fable of the ant and the grasshopper and Hans Christian Andersen's ""The Little Mermaid"". The immediate parallel to the 19-year-old composer presenting his first symphony was Alexander Glazunov, himself a child prodigy who had his First Symphony performed at an even younger age. Glazunov may have recognised in"
"Symphony No. 2 (Rachmaninoff) Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 is a symphony by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, written in 1906–07. The premiere was conducted by the composer himself in Saint Petersburg on 8 February 1908. Its duration is approximately 60 minutes when performed uncut; cut performances can be as short as 35 minutes. The score is dedicated to Sergei Taneyev, a Russian composer, teacher, theorist, author, and pupil of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Alongside his Piano Concerto No. 2 and Piano Concerto No. 3, this symphony remains one of the composer's best known compositions. At the time"
"initial success, Tchaikovsky was not satisfied with the symphony. He revised the work extensively in 1879-80, substantially rewriting the opening movement and shortening the finale. This revision is the version of the symphony usually performed today, although there have also been supporters of the original version. Among those advocates was the composer's friend and former student, Sergei Taneyev, who was himself a noted composer and pedagogue. The symphony is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, cymbals, bass drum, tamtam (last movement only), and strings. Tchaikovsky may not"
"Milan Kymlicka Milan Kymlicka (Czech: Milan Kymlička) (15 May 1936 – 9 October 2008) was a Czechoslovak and Canadian arranger, composer and conductor. He was known for his composition of film and television scores, including those for the animated television series ""Rupert"", ""Babar"" and ""The Busy World of Richard Scarry"" and the live-action television series ""Lassie"" and ""Little Men"". He received a Genie Award in 1996 for his work on ""Margaret's Museum"". Kymlicka was born in Louny, Czechoslovakia. He earned degrees from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and the Prague Conservatory. At the latter institution he was a"
"include ""The Book about Stravinsky"" and ""Glinka"" (for which he was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1948). Boris Asafyev Boris Vladimirovich Asafyev, PAU (; 27 January 1949) was a Russian and Soviet composer, writer, musicologist, musical critic and one of founders of Soviet musicology. He is the dedicatee of Prokofiev's First Symphony. He was born in St. Petersburg. Asafyev had a strong influence on Soviet music. His compositions include ballets, operas, symphonies, concertos and chamber music. His ballets include ""Flames of Paris"", based on the French Revolution, and ""The Fountain of Bakhchisarai"", which was first performed in 1934, and was"
"his Second Symphony, composed in 1872. Because Tchaikovsky used three Ukrainian folk songs to great effect in this work, it was nicknamed the ""Little Russian"" (, ""Malorossiyskaya"") by Nikolay Kashkin, a friend of the composer as well as a well-known musical critic of Moscow. Ukraine was at that time frequently called ""Little Russia"". Successful upon its premiere, the symphony also won the favor of the group of nationalistic Russian composers known as The Five, led by Mily Balakirev. For Tchaikovsky, ""Kamarinskaya"" offered a viable example of the creative possibilities of folk songs in a symphonic structure, using a variety of"
"Philharmonic orchestra. The first Russian performance was in Moscow in May 1882, conducted by Anton Rubinstein with Tchaikovsky's pupil, Sergei Taneyev, at the piano. The piano concerto consists of three movements: The second movement contains prominent solos for the violin and cello, making the work in effect a concerto for piano trio and orchestra briefly, though a once-popular edition by Alexander Siloti removed large sections of the work, including those solos. Siloti initially proposed a number of changes to the score, but Tchaikovsky resisted these ideas. As time progressed, however, he did agree to certain changes. However, the version that"
"Rachmaninoff’s struggle with depression and writer’s block. Terrence Malick's 2013 film ""To the Wonder"" features ""The Isle of The Dead"". Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist and conductor of the late Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the Romantic repertoire. Born into a musical family, Rachmaninoff took up the piano at age four. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1892 having already composed several piano and orchestral pieces. In 1897, following the negative critical reaction to his Symphony No. 1, Rachmaninoff entered a four-year depression"
"write a new piece a mere sixteen days before the concert. The piece was first performed on December 12, 1944, on nationally broadcast NBC radio. Although ""Russian Christmas Music"" consists of only one movement, it can be readily divided into four sections: A typical performance of ""Russian Christmas Music"" lasts 14–16 minutes. As it was written to convey the sounds of Eastern Orthodox liturgical music, which uses the human voice exclusively, the entire piece must be played with some lyrical and singing quality. ""Slavonic Folk Suite"" is Reed's arrangement of ""Carol of the Little Russian Children"" (here called ""Children's Carol"")"
"in his haste to leave St. Petersburg in 1897. This fact would prove fortuitous in the symphony's ultimate fate. Shortly after the composer's death, in 1944, the instrumental parts of the symphony were discovered by chance in the Belyayev Archive of the Leningrad Conservatory Library. Using these parts and the two-piano arrangement, a group of scholars headed by prominent Russian conductor Aleksandr Gauk reconstructed the full score. The second performance of the piece, considered a success, took place at the Moscow Conservatory on October 17, 1945, conducted by Aleksandr Gauk. The American premiere took place on March 19, 1948 at"
"the Chicago premiere on December 26, 1940. Nikolai Myaskovsky Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky or Miaskovsky or Miaskowsky (; – 8 August 1950, was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is sometimes referred to as the ""Father of the Soviet Symphony"". Myaskovsky was awarded the Stalin Prize five times, more than any other composer. Myaskovsky was born in Modlin Fortress, near Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, the son of an engineer officer in the Russian army. After the death of his mother the family was brought up by his father's sister, Yelikonida Konstantinovna Myaskovskaya, who had been a singer at the Saint"
"Nikolai Myaskovsky Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky or Miaskovsky or Miaskowsky (; – 8 August 1950, was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is sometimes referred to as the ""Father of the Soviet Symphony"". Myaskovsky was awarded the Stalin Prize five times, more than any other composer. Myaskovsky was born in Modlin Fortress, near Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, the son of an engineer officer in the Russian army. After the death of his mother the family was brought up by his father's sister, Yelikonida Konstantinovna Myaskovskaya, who had been a singer at the Saint Petersburg Opera. The family moved to Saint"
"Aleksandr Lokshin Aleksandr Lazarevich Lokshin () (1920–1987) was a Russian composer of classical music. He was born on September 19, 1920, in the town of Biysk, in the Altai Region, Western Siberia, and died in Moscow on June 11, 1987. An admirer of Mahler and Alban Berg, he created his own musical language; he wrote eleven symphonies plus symphonic works including ""Les Fleurs du Mal"" (1939, on Baudelaire's poems), ""Three Scenes from Goethe's Faust"" (1973, 1980), the cantata ""Mater Dolorosa"" (1977, on verses from Akhmatova's ""Requiem""), etc. Only his Symphony No.4 is purely instrumental; all other symphonies include vocal parts."
"Russian Symphony Russian Symphony ( Russkaya simfoniya) is a 1994 Russian drama film directed by Konstantin Lopushansky and starring Viktor Mikhaylov. The narrative is set in a dark version of contemporary Russia where the world seems to be coming to an end through a flood. A man is desperate to do something good with his life before it ends, but is mostly met with suspicion. The film ties in thematically with Lopushansky's other apocalyptic films, ""Dead Man's Letters"" (1986), ""A Visitor to a Museum"" (1989) and ""The Ugly Swans"" (2006), and is the most overtly religious of them. It played"
"the composer in writing the symphonic poem ""The Tempest"". What endeared the ""Little Russian"" to the ""kuchka"" was not simply that Tchaikovsky had used Ukrainian folk songs as melodic material. It was how, especially in the outer movements, he allowed the unique characteristics of Russian folk song to dictate symphonic form. This was a goal toward which the ""kuchka"" strived, both collectively and individually. Tchaikovsky, with his Conservatory grounding, could sustain such development longer and more cohesively than his colleagues in the ""kuchka"". (Though the comparison may seem unfair, Tchaikovsky authority David Brown has pointed out that, because of their"
"time"". Mark Baranov – violin, Victor Simon- cello, V. Tupikin- clarinet, G. Haimovsky – piano. Moscow premiere Moscow. All Russian House of composers. January 6, 1970. Alfred Shnittke ""Serenade"". Clarinet, violino, bass, percussions, piano. World Premiere Moscow. State Philharmonic. Grand Hall Tchaikovsky Conservatory. ”Festival Moscow Stars” May 8, 1971. Olivier Messiaen ""Turangalila-Symphony"" Premiere, Mozart Piano concerto #27, b-flat major. State Symphony Academy Orchestra, USSR. E. Svetlanov- conductor, soloists- Emile Gilels (Mozart) and Gregory Haimovsky (Messiaen) Jerusalem. Theatre. April 1973. Olivier Messiaen: “Three little Liturgy” (Israeli premiere). Conductor- Mendi Rodan. Pianist- Gregory Haimovsky. Jerusalem. Music Rubin Academy. Concert Hall. Debussy -12"
"in the Forum section of the 45th Berlin International Film Festival and received the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. Russian Symphony Russian Symphony ( Russkaya simfoniya) is a 1994 Russian drama film directed by Konstantin Lopushansky and starring Viktor Mikhaylov. The narrative is set in a dark version of contemporary Russia where the world seems to be coming to an end through a flood. A man is desperate to do something good with his life before it ends, but is mostly met with suspicion. The film ties in thematically with Lopushansky's other apocalyptic films, ""Dead Man's Letters"" (1986), ""A Visitor"
"Alexander Borodin Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (; 12 November 183327 February 1887) was a Russian Romantic composer of Georgian origin. He was one of the prominent 19th-century composers known as The Mighty Handful, a group dedicated to producing a uniquely Russian kind of classical music, rather than imitating earlier Western European models. Borodin is best known for his symphonies, his two string quartets, the tone poem ""In the Steppes of Central Asia"" and his opera ""Prince Igor"". Music from ""Prince Igor"" and his string quartets was later adapted for the US musical ""Kismet"". A doctor and chemist by profession, Borodin made"
"in Leningrad in 1933, and ""Mother"" (Мать, 1938, based on the novel by Maxim Gorky), were well received. He also wrote orchestral music including six symphonies, and three piano concertos. His ""Romantic Poem"" for violin and orchestra was premiered in Leningrad together with the first performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony in November 1939. From his numerous piano works, the 'Six short études' were introduced to the United States by Vladimir Horowitz and were published there in 1946. Two of these études were recorded by Oscar Levant. Shostakovich thought highly of Zhelobinsky, and argued in a 1951 letter to Mikhail"
"Symphony, nicknamed the ""Little Russian"", was also received enthusiastically by the group on its first performance in 1872. Tchaikovsky remained friendly but never intimate with most of The Five, ambivalent about their music; their goals and aesthetics did not match his. He took pains to ensure his musical independence from them as well as from the conservative faction at the Conservatory—an outcome facilitated by his acceptance of a professorship at the Moscow Conservatory offered to him by Nikolai Rubinstein, Anton's brother. When Rimsky-Korsakov was offered a professorship at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, it was to Tchaikovsky that he turned for"
"but also be meaningful to them and show them how to live. In 1847, Stasov published a monograph on Mikhail Glinka's use of folk motifs in his music; from that time, Stasov advocated Russianness over European influence in music. In the years which followed he served as an elder adviser to the group of Russian composers known as ""The Five"". He also warmed to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky after hearing the composer play the finale of his ""Little Russian"" Symphony at a Christmas 1872 gathering at Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's home. Shortly after this gathering, Stasov prompted Tchaikovsky to write a piece based"
"in 1896. Up to 1917 he wrote over 130 works and established himself as an important composer of the neo-Russian style with an influence on choral composers such as Sergei Rachmaninov, Victor Kalinnikov, Alexander Grechaninov and Pavel Chesnokov. After the 1917 Revolution, he devoted himself to the study of folksongs. This resulted in many choral works from which the most important are ""The Village Symphony"" (1923) and ""Rural Work in Folksongs"" (1924). Alexander Kastalsky Alexand(e)r Dmitriyevich Kastalsky () ( – 17 December 1926) was a Russian composer and folklorist. Kastalsky was born in Moscow to protoiereus Dmitri Ivanovich Kastalsky (1820–1891)."
"Russian Christmas Music Russian Christmas Music is a musical piece for symphonic band, written by Alfred Reed in 1944. It is one of the most frequently performed pieces of concert band literature. Reed was commissioned to write a piece of ""Russian music"" for a concert in Denver, Colorado. The concert's aim was to improve Soviet-American relations; as such, it was to include premieres of new Soviet and American works. Prokofiev's ""March, Op. 99"" was supposed to be the Russian work, but it was discovered that the work had already been performed in the United States, and Reed was assigned to"
"them to record the full original score, which they did in 1979. It features Vishnevskaya as Katerina, Nicolai Gedda as Sergei, Dimiter Petkov as Boris Ismailov and a brilliant supporting cast under Rostropovich's direction. Belgium: Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium (1960) Finland: Wihuri Sibelius Prize (1958) Soviet Union: United Kingdom: Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society (1966) Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (, ; 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer and pianist. He is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. Shostakovich achieved fame in the"