Yuri Arnold
Yuri Karlovich Arnold, also Jury, Georgy, Yourij, and Arnol't, Arnol'd (Russian: Юрий (Георгий) Карлович Арнольд; November 13, 1811 – July 20, 1898), was a Russian composer,
Biography
Yuri Karlovich Arnold was born in St. Petersburg, Petrograd.[1] He studied political economy at the German University in Dorpat, Estonia, and served in the army from 1831–38 during the Polish campaign. After this, he decided to focus on a career in music and went to study harmony with Johann Leopold Fuchs and counterpoint with Joseph Hunke. In 1839, he won a Philharmonic Society award for his cantata Svetlana.
Starting in 1841, he contributed to numerous journals including the S.-Peterburgskiye vedomosti, Biblioteka dlya chteniya, Literaturnaya gazeta, Seernaya pchela, and Panteon under a variety of pseudonyms, including Meloman, Karl Karlovich, A. Yu., Harmonin, and Karl Smelïy.
Works
Yuri Karlovich Arnold wrote several sacred choral works,[1] more than 50 romances, besides many operettas. He also wrote the cantata Svetlana (1839), the overture Boris Godunov (1861) and the piano piece Impromptu-Polka.
Operas
- Invalid (1852)
- Gypsy Girl (1853)
- The Last Day of Pompeii (1860)
- Treasure Trove (comic, perf. St. Petersburg, Petrograd, (2-1-1861)
- St. John the Baptist’s Night (1853)
- Note:Both the manuscripts to Treasure Trove and St. John the Baptist's Night were lost in a fire at the St. Petersburg Opera Theater in 1859.[3]
Writings
- Love of a Teacher of Music (3 vols., Moscow., 1892–93)[1]
- A music teacher’s love (St Petersburg, 1836) [published under pseudonym Carlo Carlini]
- Betrachtungen üer die Kunst der Darstellung in Musikdrama (Leipzig, 1867)
- Der Einfluss des Zeitgeistes auf die Entwicklung der Tonkunst (Leipzig, 1867)
- Die Tonkunst in Russland bis zur Einführung des abendländischen Music-und Notensystems (Leipzig, 1867)
- Über Schulen für dramatische und musikalische Kunst (Leipzig, 1867)
- 24 auserlesne Opern-Charaktere im Berug auf deren musikalischdeclamatorische, wie dramatisch-mimische Darstellung, analysirt und beleuchtet, i-xii (Leipzig, 1868)
- Über Franz Lizst’s oratorium ‘Die Heilige Elisabeth’ (1868)[2]
- Nauka 0 muzïke na osnovanii ėsteticheskikh I fiziologicheskikh zakonov [The science of music on the basis of aesthetic and physiological laws] (Moscow, 1875)[2]
- The theory of old Russian church and folk singing on the basis of authentic treatises and acoustic analysis, I (Moscow, 1880)
- The harmonization of old Russian church singing based on ancient Greek and Byzantine theory and acoustic analysis (Moscow, 1886)
- Die alten Kirchenmelodien historisch und akustisch entwickelt (Leipzig, 1898)
- The theory of voice training based on the old Italian school method and its practical application for good voice production, i-iii (St Petersburg, 1898)[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e Ho, Allan and Dmitry Feofanov, eds. (1989) Biographical dictionary of Russian/Soviet composers. Greenwood Press, pp. 26–27.
- ^ a b c d e Spencer, Jennifer and Oldani, Robert W. (2001). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second ed. Macmillan.
- ^ a b Slonimsky, Nicholas, ed. (1984). Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 7th edition. Schirmer, p. 80.
- This article contains content from the Owl Edition of Nordisk familjebok, a Swedish encyclopedia published between 1904 and 1926, now in the public domain.
Further reading
- Yury Arnol’d: ocherk yego muzïkal’noy deyatekl’nosti [A sketch of his musical activity], RMG (1896), no. 12, cols. 1563–70
- Ignat’yev. Pamyati Yuriya Karlovicha Arnol’da [In memoriam Yu.K. Arnol’d]
- Illyustrirovannïy sbornik Kiyevskogo literaturno-artisticheskogo obshchestva [Illustrated collection of the Kiev literary/artistic society] (Kiev, 1900), 24–30
- Bernandt and I.M. Yampol’sky: Kto pisal o muzïke [Writers on music], I (Moscow, 1971) [incl. list of writings]
- Carpenter. The Theory of Music in Russia and the Soviet Union c. 1650–1950 (diss., U. of Pennsylvania, 1988)
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedia
- Blom, E., ed. Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed., 10 vols. London-New York, 1972
- Keldysh, Yu, ed. Muzykal’naya entsiklopediya [Soviet Encyclopedia of Music]. Moscow, 1973
- Riemann, Hugo (1959). ‘’Riemann Musik Lexikon,’’ Twelfth edition. Schott Music Corp, vol. 1, p. 54