Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov (russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Ива́нов; 23 September 184920 October 1927) was a Russian composer, critic and writer of music.

Biography

Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov was born in Moscow in 1849. He studied at the Technological Institute,

St Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, then at the Moscow Conservatory for a year, under Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (harmony) and Alexandre Dubuque (piano). He lived the next six years of his life in Rome, where he associated with

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and his pupils and studied with Giovanni Sgambati. He returned to Russia and became a music critic with the ''

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''. Many of his compositions were performed, but not published. Arias from his opera ''Zabava Puytatishna'' (1899) have been recorded by Olimpia Boronat,

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and Leonid Sobinov. His liturgical piece ''The Lord's Prayer'' has been recorded by Nicolai Gedda.ArkivMusik
/ref> He died in Rome in 1927.

Musical works

''Zabava Putyatishna'' by Sergey Solomko * ''Potemkin's Feast'' (or ''Potemkin's Holiday''), opera (1888; 16 December 1902, St Petersburg)Opera Glass
/ref> * ''Zabava Putyatishna'', opera (1899; 15 January 1899, Moscow) * ''The Proud Woman'', opera (not prod.) * ''Woe to the Wise'', opera (19 April 1910, Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg) * '' La Vestale'' (a.k.a. ''Vyestalka''), ballet (choreography by

Marius Petipa Marius Ivanovich Petipa (russian: Мариус Иванович Петипа), born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa (11 March 1818), was a French ballet dancer, pedagogue and choreographer. Petipa is one of the most influential ballet masters an ...

; 29 February 1888; Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg) * ''A Night in May'',

symphonic poem A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, usually in a single continuous movement, which illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape, or other (non-musical) source. The German term ''T ...

* ''Savonarola'', symphonic poem * ''Suite champêtre'' * ''A Requiem'', symphonic prologue * ''Medea'',

incidental music Incidental music is music in a play, television program, radio program, video game, or some other presentation form that is not primarily musical. The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as t ...

* three orchestral suites * several

cantata A cantata (; ; literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb ''cantare'', "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir. The meaning of ...

s * songs * piano pieces

Literary works

* ''Pushkin in Music'', monograph (1900) * ''Historic Development of Music in Russia'' (1910–11, 2 v.)

Translations

Eduard Hanslick Eduard Hanslick (11 September 18256 August 1904) was an Austrian music critic, aesthetician and historian. Among the leading critics of his time, he was the chief music critic of the ''Neue Freie Presse'' from 1864 until the end of his life. H ...

's ''Vom Musikalisch-Schönen'' * Nohl's ''Entwicklung der Kammermusik''

References

Sources

Alexandria Vodarsky-Shiraeff, Russian Composers and Musicians
* Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed., 1954,

Eric Blom Eric Walter Blom (20 August 188811 April 1959) was a Swiss-born British-naturalised music lexicographer, music critic and writer. He is best known as the editor of the 5th edition of ''Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' (1954). Biogr ...

, ed. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ivanov, Mikhail 1849 births 1927 deaths Russian male classical composers Russian music critics Russian opera composers Male opera composers Russian ballet composers White Russian emigrants to Italy 20th-century Russian translators Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Italy