Alexander Alexeyevich Shenshin (russian: Александр Алексеевич Шеншин; 1890–1944) was a Russian composer.
Shenshin studied music with
Boleslav Yavorsky Boleslav Leopoldovich Yavorsky (russian: Болеслав Леопольдович Яворский; June 22, 1877, Kharkiv – November 26, 1942) was a Russian musicologist, music teacher, administrator and pianist.
Through his teachings and e ...
,
Alexander Gretchaninov,
Reinhold Glière, and
Semyon Kruglikov from 1907 to 1915. He received a teacher's appointment to the
Moscow Conservatory in 1922, and by 1940 he was a member of the
Academy of Arts
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and the composer of the
Moscow Children's Theater.
Shenshin was a member of the first Presidium of the Moscow
Institute of Artistic Culture and a close friend of its president,
Wassily Kandinsky, a noted painter who shared an interest in using scientific methods to further a synthesis of the arts. Kandinsky praised Shenshin's theoretical work, in particular an analysis of two parts of
Liszt's composition ''
Années de Pèlerinage'': the "
Sposalizio", inspired by
Raphael's painting ''
The Marriage of the Virgin
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'', and the "
Penseroso", inspired by
Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was insp ...
's statue atop the tomb of
Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino
Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (; 12 September 1492 – 4 May 1519) was the ruler of Florence from 1516 until his death in 1519. He was also Duke of Urbino during the same period. His daughter Catherine de' Medici became Queen Consort of Fran ...
. Shenshin counted the notes and bars in the music and translated them into graphic form, and he measured the corresponding painting and sculpture, linking them to the same mathematical formula.
Works
;Piano
*14 Preludes (1910)
*17 Preludes (1910)
*Op.3. 7 Preludes
*Op.10. 9 Preludes
*Op.13. Sonata No.1 (1913)
*Sonata No.2 (1926)
;Voice and piano
*Song Cycle after
Blok
*Song Cycle after
Sologub
*Song Cycle after
Lenau
Nikolaus Lenau was the pen name of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau (13 August 1802 – 22 August 1850), a German-language Austrian poet.
Biography
He was born at Csatád (Schadat), Kingdom of Hungary, now Lenauheim, Banat, then pa ...
(trans.
Shervinsky)
*Op.11. Song Cycle after
Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited fro ...
(trans. Shervinsky)
*Op.12. 5 Songs (Shervinsky)
*Op.14–15 Song Cycles after German poets
;Chamber ensemble
*Piano Quintet (1911)
*String Quartet (1943)
;Orchestral
*Symphonic poem ''Ийола'' (1918)
*''Summer pictures.'' Lyric Suite for Symphony Orchestra (for
K. D. Balmont, 1929)
;Opera
*''O-Tao'' (1925)
;Operetta
*''Twelfth Night'' (1939,
Moscow Operetta Theater)
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;Ballet
*''Ancient Dances'' (
Dionysus
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, 1933,
Bolshoi Theatre
The Bolshoi Theatre ( rus, Большо́й теа́тр, r=Bol'shoy teatr, literally "Big Theater", p=bɐlʲˈʂoj tʲɪˈatər) is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, originally designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds ballet and ope ...
)
*''Tale of Carmen'' (1935)
;Film
*''
The Ghost That Never Returns
''The Ghost That Never Returns'' (russian: Привидение, которое не возвращается, Prividenie, kotoroe ne vozvrashchaetsya) is a 1930 Soviet made part-sound drama film. It was directed by Abram Room based on a novel by ...
'' (1929)
*''
Tommy
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* Tommy (given name)
* Tommy Atkins, or just Tommy, a slang term for a common soldier in the British Army
Arts and entertainment Film and television
* ''Tommy'' (1931 film), a Soviet drama film
* ''Tommy'' (1975 fil ...
'' (1931)
References
External links
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1890 births
1944 deaths
Russian male composers
20th-century composers
20th-century Russian male musicians
Academic staff of Moscow Conservatory
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