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Compositions Piano Trio no 1 in C minor - op 38: III Allegro e vivace, Piano Trio no 1 in C minor - op 38: III Allegro e vivace, Berceuse, Berceuse, Nine otpushchayeshi 'Lord - Now Lettest Thou Thy Servant' Op 34: I, Nine otpushchayeshi 'Lord - Now Lettest Thou Thy Servant' Op 34: I, Vsenoshchnoye bdeniye 'All-Night Vigil' - op 59: II Blazhen muzh, Vsenoshchnoye bdeniye 'All-Night Vigil' - op 59: II Blazhen muzh, Symphony no 3 - op 100: I Moderato - Allegro, Symphony no 3 - op 100: I Moderato - Allegro, Vsenoshchnoye bdeniye 'All-Night Vigil' - op 59: IV Bogoroditse Devo, Vsenoshchnoye bdeniye 'All-Night Vigil' - op 59: IV Bogoroditse Devo, Snowflakes - op 47: IV In the Forest, Snowflakes - op 47: IV In the Forest, Missa oecumenica - op 142: V Benedictus, Missa oecumenica - op 142: V Benedictus, Piano Trio no 1 in C minor - op 38: II Lento assai, Piano Trio no 1 in C minor - op 38: II Lento assai, Snowflakes - op 47: I Snowflakes, Snowflakes - op 47: I Snowflakes, Symphony no 2 - op 27 "Pastoral": IV Finale: Allegro vivace, Symphony no 2 - op 27 "Pastoral": IV Finale: Allegro vivace, Variations for Clarinet and String Quartet - op 172, Variations for Clarinet and String Quartet - op 172, Cello Concerto - op 8: IV Allegro vivo, Cello Concerto - op 8: IV Allegro vivo, Snowflakes - op 47: VII Night, Snowflakes - op 47: VII Night, Missa oecumenica - op 142: II Gloria, Missa oecumenica - op 142: II Gloria, Mass "Et in terra pax" - op 166: IV Sanctus -, Mass "Et in terra pax" - op 166: IV Sanctus -, Piano Trio no 2 in G major - op 128: II Intermezzo, Piano Trio no 2 in G major - op 128: II Intermezzo, Missa festiva - op 154: IV Sanctus, Missa festiva - op 154: IV Sanctus, Missa festiva - op 154: I Kyrie, Missa festiva - op 154: I Kyrie, Symphony no 2 - op 27 "Pastoral": I Pastorale: Moderato assai e poco rubato - Allegro giocoso, Symphony no 2 - op 27 "Pastoral": I Pastorale: Moderato assai e poco rubato - Allegro giocoso, Symphony no 1 - op 6: II Andante sostenuto assai, Symphony no 1 - op 6: II Andante sostenuto assai, Gloire A La Consubstantielle Trinite (Slava Edinorodnii), Gloire A La Consubstantielle Trinite (Slava Edinorodnii), Symphony no 5 in G minor - op 153: IV Finale: Allegro moderato, Symphony no 5 in G minor - op 153: IV Finale: Allegro moderato, Strastnaya Sed'mitsa 'Holy Week' - op 58: VI Nine sili nebesniya (Now the Powers of Heaven), Strastnaya Sed'mitsa 'Holy Week' - op 58: VI Nine sili nebesniya (Now the Powers of Heaven), Our Father, Our Father, The Lane - Five Children's Songs - op 89: 4 The Cat, The Lane - Five Children's Songs - op 89: 4 The Cat, The Liturgy of St John Chrysostom no 2 - op 29: The Cherubic Hymn, The Liturgy of St John Chrysostom no 2 - op 29: The Cherubic Hymn, Symphony no 2 - op 27 "Pastoral": III Scherzo: Vivo assai, Symphony no 2 - op 27 "Pastoral": III Scherzo: Vivo assai, Symphony no 3 - op 100: III Andante, Symphony no 3 - op 100: III Andante, Symphony no 3 - op 100: IV Finale: Allegro vivace, Symphony no 3 - op 100: IV Finale: Allegro vivace, Missa Sancti Spiritus - op 169: II Gloria, Missa Sancti Spiritus - op 169: II Gloria, Missa festiva - op 154: V Benedictus, Missa festiva - op 154: V Benedictus, Cello Concerto - op 8: III Allegro giocoso, Cello Concerto - op 8: III Allegro giocoso, Symphony no 2 - op 27 "Pastoral": II Andante, Symphony no 2 - op 27 "Pastoral": II Andante, Missa Sancti Spiritus - op 169: V Benedictus, Missa Sancti Spiritus - op 169: V Benedictus, Credo (Vieroiou), Credo (Vieroiou), Mass "Et in terra pax" - op 166: I Kyrie -, Mass "Et in terra pax" - op 166: I Kyrie -, Symphony no 1 - op 6: III Molto vivace, Symphony no 1 - op 6: III Molto vivace, Symphony no 4 - op 102: III Andante, Symphony no 4 - op 102: III Andante, Symphony no 5 in G minor - op 153: III Scherzo: Allegro, Symphony no 5 in G minor - op 153: III Scherzo: Allegro, Cantata - op 65 "Kvalite Boga": III Praise the Lord, Cantata - op 65 "Kvalite Boga": III Praise the Lord, Vsenoshchnoye bdeniye 'All-Night Vigil' - op 59: IX Slava v vishnih Bogu, Vsenoshchnoye bdeniye 'All-Night Vigil' - op 59: IX Slava v vishnih Bogu, Snowflakes - op 47: IX The Snowdrop, Snowflakes - op 47: IX The Snowdrop, Snowflakes - op 47: V Tom Thumb, Snowflakes - op 47: V Tom Thumb, Piano Trio no 2 in G major - op 128: III Finale, Piano Trio no 2 in G major - op 128: III Finale, Missa festiva - op 154: III Credo, Missa festiva - op 154: III Credo, Missa festiva - op 154: VI Agnus dei, Missa festiva - op 154: VI Agnus dei, Cello Sonata in E minor - op 113: II Menuetto tragico, Cello Sonata in E minor - op 113: II Menuetto tragico, Piano Trio no 2 in G major - op 128: I Allegro, Piano Trio no 2 in G major - op 128: I Allegro, Symfonie nr 4, Symfonie nr 4, The Lane - Five Children's Songs - op 89: 2 The first Snow, The Lane - Five Children's Songs - op 89: 2 The first Snow Similar People Valery Polyansky, Craig Hella Johnson, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Stephen Layton, Alexander Ivashkin | ||
Alexander gretchaninov plainte op 3 no 1 audio sheet music
Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ти́хонович Гречани́нов; [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɡrʲɪtɕɐˈnʲinəf]; 25 October [O.S. 13 October] 1864, Kaluga – 3 January 1956, New York City) was a Russian Romantic composer.
Contents
- Alexander gretchaninov plainte op 3 no 1 audio sheet music
- Alexander Gretchaninov Dixi Op 146 No 2
- His life
- His music
- Orchestral
- Opera
- Secular Songs Choral Music
- Liturgical VocalChoral
- Chamber Music
- Piano Music
- References
Alexander Gretchaninov : Dixi! , Op. 146 No. 2
His life
Gretchaninov started his musical studies rather late, because his father, a businessman, had expected the boy to take over the family firm. Gretchaninov himself related that he did not see a piano until he was 14 and began his studies at the Moscow Conservatory in 1881 against his father's wishes and without his knowledge. His main teachers there were Sergei Taneyev and Anton Arensky. In the late 1880s, after a quarrel with Arensky, he moved to St. Petersburg where he studied composition and orchestration with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov until 1893. Rimsky-Korsakov immediately recognized Gretchaninov's extraordinary musical imagination and talent and gave him much extra time as well as considerable financial help. This allowed the young man, whose parents were not supporting him, to survive. Out of this came an important friendship, which only ended in 1908 with Rimsky's death. As such, it is not surprising that Rimsky's influence can be heard in Gretchaninov’s early works, such as his String Quartet No.1, a prize-winning composition.
Around 1896, Gretchaninov returned to Moscow and was involved with writing for the theatre, the opera and the Russian Orthodox Church. His works, especially those for voice, achieved considerable success within Russia, while his instrumental works enjoyed even wider acclaim. By 1910, he was considered a composer of such distinction that the Tsar awarded him an annual pension.
Though Gretchaninov remained in Russia for several years after the Revolution, he ultimately chose to emigrate, first to France in 1925, and then, at the age of 75, to the United States in 1939. He remained in the U.S. the rest of his life and eventually became an American citizen. He died in New York at the age of 91 and is buried outside the church at Rova Farms, a Russian enclave in Jackson Township, Ocean County, New Jersey.
His music
Gretchaninov wrote five symphonies, the first premiered by Rimsky-Korsakov; four string quartets, the first two of which won important prizes, two piano trios, sonatas for violin, cello, clarinet, piano and balalaika, several operas, song cycle Les Fleurs du Mal, op. 48 (setting lyrics by Baudelaire) and much other music.
Like Vladimir Rebikov's, his position in the history of Russian music was mainly transitional, his earlier music belonging firmly in that earlier Romantic tradition while his later work is influenced by some of the streams that also affected Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev.
Sketches for an unfinished sixth symphony from the 1940s exist.
He also composed a number of small scale piano pieces.
Most of Gretchaninov's manuscripts reside in the Music Division of New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.