Epilogue Among the crowds celebrating the tsar’s coronation are Antonida, Sobinin and Vanya, who are told that the tsar will never forget Susanin’s sacrifice. Personalities | Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka | Early Romantic | Opera ...
to claim his reward, but cannot awaken her. The others arrive with the ring and Ruslan rouses Lyudmila. The wedding celebrations resume and everyone rejoices. Personalities | Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka | Early Romantic | Opera ...
(Mekh’-a-il E-va-no’-vich Glin’-ka) 1804–57 Russian composer Known as the ‘father of Russian music’, Glinka was the initial force behind nineteenth-century Russian nationalism. He grew up in a cosseted environment, and his early exposure to music was confined largely to the folksongs sung by his nurse, the traits of which were later absorbed into his melodic style. After a couple of ...
1804–57, Russian As the composer of A Life for the Tsar (1836), Glinka became the founder of Russian historical opera. A Life for the Tsar told the story of Ivan Susanin, a popular Russian hero who, in 1612, saved the life of the future tsar and founder of the Romanov dynasty, Michael Romanov. Although French and ...
1843. The musical training he received in his youth enabled him to build a reputation as a pianist and his acquaintance with during the winter of 1833–34 with Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804–57) involved him in the movement to establish national opera based on the Russian folksong tradition. Dargomïzhsky’s first foray into opera was Lucrèce Borgia, based on a play by ...
landowning background, Dargomïzhsky was renowned in the salons of St Petersburg as a performer and composer, while pursuing a civil service career. Emulating the example of his contemporary Glinka, Dargomïzhsky followed his first opera Esmeralda (1839) with two works of overtly Russian character based on Pushkin, Rusalka (1856) and The Stone Guest (completed in 1870 by Cui ...
era were able to enjoy a ready-made source of stories for operas in the works of Alexander Pushkin. His first success was the romantic poem Ruslan i Lyudmila (1820), which Glinka used for his opera of the same name, first performed in 1842. Pushkin produced not only poetry, but essays, blank-verse historical dramas, such as Boris Godunov ...
1842–1918, Italian Although best known as a librettist, Arrigo Boito was also a composer in his own right. He studied music in Milan with Alberto Mazzucato (1813–77). Later he went to Paris, where he met Verdi and began to think about subjects for operas. The choice was between Nero, the Roman Emperor, and Faust – a ...
his harmonic language lacks variety and subtlety. Recommended Recording: Martha, soloists, Bavarian State Opera (dir) Robert Heger (EMI/Warner) Introduction | Early Romantic | Classical Personalities | Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka | Early Romantic | Classical ...
he did not refer only to the classical period of Haydn and Mozart; his miniature opera Mavra (1922) holds up an affectionate distorting mirror to his great nineteenth-century Russian predecessor Glinka and to Glinka’s Italian operatic models, Bellini and Donizetti. The Symphony of Psalms (1929) echoes J. S. Bach and the Orthodox chant of his native Russia, and the ...
, yet not too successfully. Mavra had been composed as homage to the hallowed stylistic conventions of the old Russian school of Italian opera, and dedicated to Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804–57), Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–93). Weightier Work to Come Stravinsky’s wish to produce a weightier work was then achieved with Oedipus Rex (1927). As translated into ...
by rewriting them from memory. A handsome man of great vitality, Garcia wrote several zarzuelas and popular Spanish songs. Introduction | Early Romantic | Opera Personalities | Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka | Early Romantic | Opera ...
(Me’-le Al-yek-sa’-ye-vich Ba-la’-ke-ref) 1837–1910 Russian composer Balakirev’s early piano fantasy on Glinka’s A Life for the Tsar won Glinka’s approval in 1855 and in appreciation Glinka gave Balakirev two Spanish melodies, later reworked in the Spanish Serenade. Balakirev performed Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto before the Tsar, a highlight of a virtuoso career that culminated with his Chopin Anniversary recital in Warsaw ...
1806–78, Russian Osip Petrov, a Russian bass with a rich, dark voice and strong dramatic instincts, made his debut in 1826 and sang regularly at St Petersburg from 1830 until his death. He soon established himself as the first great Russian bass. His arrival on the Russian opera scene was fortuitous. Nationalist composers sought him out to ...
which Tchaikovsky grew up hardly nurtured new talent; only a determined genius could forge ahead alone. There were no music colleges or conservatories when the first great Russian composer, Glinka, came to maturity. Although he did briefly undertake a systematic course of study in Germany, and despite the perfect scoring which graces nearly every page of his opera ...
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