Yefim Golyshev ( uk, Юхим Голишев), variously

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as ''Golyscheff'', ''Golyschev'', ''Golishiff'', ''Golishev'', etc., 8 September 1897 – 25 September 1970) was a

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-born painter and composer who was mainly active in Europe. After a successful career as a child prodigy violinist and the

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from

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, Golyshev became one of the founding members of the

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November Group, painting "anti-art" works and creating music for kitchen utensils and various new, invented instruments. In 1933 he had to flee from the

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, first to

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, then to

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, where he worked as a chemist until 1938. He spent World War II in

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, either in prison or hiding. Between 1956 and 1966 Golyshev, lived in

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, where he influenced

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's Música Nova composers. He died in

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in 1970. Golyshev the composer is notable for his only surviving composition, a string trio. This piece, subtitled ''Zwölftondauer-Komplexe'' (twelve-tone-duration complexes), was published in 1925 in Berlin, but was possibly written as early as 1914. It makes use of various 12-note and 12- duration complexes, making it one of the earliest pieces of music composed using a variant of

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, and predating

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's work. There are five movements, four provided with titles referencing their dynamics: # ''Mezzo-forte'' (Largo) # ''Fortissimo'' (Allegro) # ''Piano'' (Andante) # ''Pianissimo'' (Allegretto) # ''Adagio'' (Adagio) The dynamics in the last movement are left to the performers to decide on. Copies of the archival score can be ordered directly from Robert Lienau, the original publishers of the work. The rest of Golyshev's compositional output, which included two

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, music for

Vsevolod Pudovkin Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin ( rus, Всеволод Илларионович Пудовкин, p=ˈfsʲevələt ɪlərʲɪˈonəvʲɪtɕ pʊˈdofkʲɪn; 16 February 1893 – 30 June 1953) was a Russian and Soviet film director, screenwriter ...

's lost film ''Igdenbu the Great Hunter'', a string quartet and other pieces, is lost. Golyshev provided illustrations for ''Sensorialité Excentrique'', the last book published by

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in 1970.

References

* * Kholopov, Y. N. 1983. ''Кто изобрёл 12-тоновую технику?'' (Kto izobrel 12-tonovuyu tekhniku, "Who invented the 12-tone technique?"), Проблемы истории австро-немецкой музыки. Первая треть XX века. Сб. трудов Института им. Гнесиных М. * Roberts, Peter Deane. 2002. ''Yefim Golyschev'', in ''Music of the Twentieth-century Avant-garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook'', edited by Larry Sitsky and Jonathan D. Kramer, pp. 173–176. Greenwood Publishing Group. , * Simon (Shaw-)Miller, 'Music and Art and the Crisis in Early Modernism: An introduction to some non-serial dodecaphonic techniques' (PhD, Essex, 1988) - also http://see-this-sound.at/en ('performance art') {{DEFAULTSORT:Golyshev, Yefim 1897 births 1970 deaths 20th-century classical composers Ukrainian classical composers Russian artists Ukrainian Jews 20th-century Ukrainian painters 20th-century Ukrainian male artists Male classical composers 20th-century male musicians Ukrainian male painters