Borys Yanovskyi

Borys Karlovych Yanovskyi or Janowsky (Ukrainian: Яновський Борис Карлович) (31 December 1875, Moscow –19 January 1933, Kharkiv) was a Russian/Ukrainian composer, music critic, conductor and teacher of German origin. His actual surname was Siegl. Yanovskyi lived and worked in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kyiv and Kharkiv.

Borys Karlovych Yanovskyi was born on 19/31 December 1875 in Moscow,^[1] the son of a German, Karl Siegl. His initial musical training was undertaken by his father, before he became a student of E. A. Ryb.^[2] Yanovskyi lived in Kyiv until 1910, where he graduated from Galagan College and Kyiv University (1903).^[3] He worked as a conductor, teacher, and critic.^[1] He lived in St. Petersburg from 1910. Between 1916 and 1917, he was the conductor of the Zimin Opera in Moscow.^[3] In 1918, he travelled back to Ukraine, becoming a teacher at the Music Technical College and the Music and Drama Institute in Kharkiv.^[1]

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]

Yanovskyi died on 19 January 1933 in Kharkiv.^[1]

Yanovskyi'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) based on Ukrainian folk Duma about Samiilo Kishka.^[1] Yanovskyi adapted a work by Oscar Wilde into an operaThe Florentine Tragedy (1913, Odesa; 1916, Moscow; 1925, Kharkiv).^[3]

Yanovskyi composed two ballets,^[1]Arabian Night (1916) and Ferenji (1930), and a music comedy The Undertaker, based on a work by Alexander Pushkin (1923), Oriental Suite (1896), and the symphonic poemsVii (1899, after Gogol), and Faun and the Shepherdess (1902). Other musical compositions include Andante (1899), An Intermezzo on Ukrainian Themes (1928) and Zazdravnaya (1931) for strings,^[2] 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.^[1]

Propuso el término melopoesía , en la que el poema se convierte en un componente igualitario en la síntesis artística de la obra musical. Creó ejemplos utilizando la poesía de poetas ucranianos, rusos y europeos como Maeterlinck, Alexander Blok , Konstantin Balmont , Mikhail Kuzmin , Anna Akhmatova , Sergei Yesenin y Charles Baudelaire . Ejemplos de otras composiciones incluyen May Day a partir de un texto ucraniano (1925); Airplane : [para coro y piano (1926); Don't pity the ball (para bajo y piano) (1926); Lena para coro mixto (1926); Anthem to the Red Dawn (el final de Explosion para coro mixto y piano, 1928); y The Dance of Labour para piano, 1928). ^{[ 3 ]}

• Bugaeva, Olena (2015). Diccionario biográfico (PDF) (en ucraniano). Kiev: Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Ucrania (Biblioteca Nacional de Ucrania). págs. 316–317 . ISBN  978-966-02-7512-6.

• La partitura de la ópera de Yanovsky B 1812 ( En 1812 ) (en ruso)