Boris Borisovich Krasin (3 (15) April 1884,
Tyumen
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–21 June 1936) was a
Russian
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musician who was politically active in
Proletkult
Proletkult ( rus, Пролетку́льт, p=prəlʲɪtˈkulʲt), a portmanteau of the Russian words "proletarskaya kultura" (proletarian culture), was an experimental Soviet artistic institution that arose in conjunction with the Russian Revolut ...
and the
Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians The Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians or RAPM (russian: Российская Ассоциация Пролетарских Музыкантов, РАПМ ) was a musicians' creative union of the early Soviet period. It was founded in Jun ...
.
Early life
Boris was the fifth and youngest son of
Boris Ivanovich Krasin, chief of police in Tyumen.
Leonid Krasin
Leonid Borisovich Krasin (russian: Леони́д Бори́сович Кра́син; 15 July 1870 – 24 November 1926) was a Russian Soviet politician, engineer, social entrepreneur, Bolshevik revolutionary politician and a Soviet diplomat. In 1 ...
was one of his brothers.
Musical career
Krasin was head of the Moscow Proletkult's Music Department in which capacity he claimed that the music provided in restaurants and cabarets was anti-art.
He was one of the founders of the
Union of Composers
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** ''Un ...
in 1932. He joined Alexei Ogolevets to found the Autonomous Research Section (ANTES) of this organisation in Moscow, which played a major role in the research and development of
electronic musical instrument
An electronic musical instrument or electrophone is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry. Such an instrument sounds by outputting an electrical, electronic or digital audio signal that ultimately is plugged into ...
s.
He set poems to music such as
Andrei Bely
Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev ( rus, Бори́с Никола́евич Буга́ев, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ bʊˈɡajɪf, a=Boris Nikolayevich Bugayev.ru.vorb.oga), better known by the pen name Andrei Bely or Biely ( rus, Андре ...
's "Чающие" (Tea Lovers),
"Одиночество" (Loneliness)
and "Осень" (Autumn).
He is buried in the
Novodevichy Cemetery
Novodevichy Cemetery ( rus, Новоде́вичье кла́дбище, Novodevichye kladbishche) is a cemetery in Moscow. It lies next to the southern wall of the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular tourist ...
, Moscow.
Texts
*1920 "С чего и как начинать работу в области музыкального искусства" (Where and how to start working in the field of musical art) ''
Proletarskaya Kul'tura, No.17-19'', August – December, 1920
References
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1936 deaths
Russian composers
1884 births
Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery
People from Tyumen
Soviet composers