Boris Karlovich Yanovsky ( uk, Яновський Борис Карлович) (31 December 1875, Moscow19 January 1933,

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

and

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine. the son of a German, Karl Siegl. His initial musical training was undertaken by his father, before he became a student of E. A. Ryba. Yanovsky lived in

until 1910, where he graduated from and Kyiv University (1903). He worked as a conductor, teacher, and critic. He lived in St. Petersburg from 1910. Between 1916 and 1917, he was the conductor of the Zimin Opera in Moscow. In 1918, he travelled back to Ukraine, becoming a teacher at the Music Technical College and the Music and Drama Institute in

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine. Member of the editorial board of the journal. "Music", head of the music department of the newspaper "Communist" in Kharkiv. Member of the Kharkiv branch of MTL. He worked in Kyiv as an employee of periodicals and magazines, at the same time he taught, had conducting practice and wrote critical articles. He was the first editor-in-chief of the magazine "The World of Art". Yanovsky died on 19 January 1933 in Kharkiv.

Works

Yanovsky's works include 10

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s, among them ''Sorochyn Fair'' (1899, from the short story of the same name by Nikolai Gogol), ''Two Pierrots'', or ''Columbine'' (1907), ''Madajara'' (revised as ''Sister Beatrice'' (1907, revised 1910, after Maurice Maeterlinck), ''In 1812'' (1912), ''Explosion'' (1927), ''The Witch'' (1916, after

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) and ''Duma Chornomorska'', or ''Samiilo Kishka'' (1928). Yanovsky adapted a work by

Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...

into an opera''The Florentine Tragedy'' (1913,

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; 1916, Moscow; 1925, Kharkiv). Yanovsky composed two

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s, ''Arabian Night'' (1916) and ''Ferenji'' (1930), and a music comedy ''The Undertaker'', based on a work by

Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

(1923), ''Oriental Suite'' (1896), and the

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s ''Vii'' (1899, after Gogol), and ''Faun and the Shepherdess'' (1902). Other

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s include ''Andante'' (1899), ''An Intermezzo on Ukrainian Themes'' (1928) and Zazdravnaya (1931) for strings, and piano works (including a suite (1924), and ''Bagels'' (18 children's plays, published in 1926)). He composed solo choral pieces, and arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs. He proposed the term ''melo-poetry'', in which the poem becomes an equal component in the artistic synthesis of the musical work. He created examples using the poetry of Ukrainian, Russian and European poets such as Maeterlinck, Alexander Blok,

Konstantin Balmont Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont ( rus, Константи́н Дми́триевич Бальмо́нт, p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin ˈdmʲitrʲɪjɪvʲɪdʑ bɐlʲˈmont, a=Konstantin Dmitriyevich Bal'mont.ru.vorb.oga; – 23 December 1942) was a Rus ...

Mikhail Kuzmin Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin (russian: Михаи́л Алексе́евич Кузми́н) ( – March 1, 1936) was a Russian poet, musician and novelist, a prominent contributor to the Silver Age of Russian Poetry. Biography Born into a noble fam ...

, Anna Akhmatova,

Sergei Yesenin Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin ( rus, Сергей Александрович Есенин, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ jɪˈsʲenʲɪn; ( 1895 – 28 December 1925), sometimes spelled as Esenin, was a Russian lyric poet. He is one o ...

, and

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. Examples of other compositions include ''May Day'' from a Ukrainian text (1925); ''Airplane'': [for chorus and piano (1926); ''Don't pity the ball'' (for bass and piano) (1926); ''Lena'' for mixed chorus (1926); ''Anthem to the Red Dawn'' (the finale from ''Explosion'' for mixed choir and piano, 1928); and ''The Dance of Labour'' for piano, 1928).

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