Borys Yanovsky
Boris Karlovich Yanovsky (
.Biography
Boris Karlovich Yanovsky was born on 19/31 December 1875 in Moscow,
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". [3]
Yanovsky died on 19 January 1933 in Kharkiv.[1]
Works
Yanovsky's works include 10 operas, among them Sorochyn Fair (1899,[1] 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),[3] In 1812 (1912), Explosion (1927), The Witch (1916, after Anton Chekhov)[2] and Duma Chornomorska, or Samiilo Kishka (1928).[1] Yanovsky adapted a work by Oscar Wilde into an operaThe Florentine Tragedy (1913, Odesa; 1916, Moscow; 1925, Kharkiv).[3]
Yanovsky composed two
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, Mikhail Kuzmin, Anna Akhmatova, Sergei Yesenin, and Charles Baudelaire. 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).[3]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Yanovsky, Borys". Internet Encyclopaedia of Ukraine. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
- ^ a b c "Яновский Б. К." [Yanovsky B.K.]. Soviet Encyclopedia of Music (in Russian). Academic. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f Bugaeva 2015, pp. 316–317.
Sources
- Bugaeva, Olena (2015). Biographical Dictionary (PDF) (in Ukrainian). Kyiv: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (National Library of Ukraine). pp. 316–317. ISBN 978-966-02-7512-6.
External links
- The score of Yanovsky's opera В 1812 (In 1812) (in Russian)