Parents Mikhail Lyapunov | Name Sergei Lyapunov | |
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Born 30 November 1859Yaroslavl ( 1859-11-30 ) Compositions Piano Concerto no 2 in E major - op 38, Piano Concerto no 2 in E major - op 38, Violin Concerto in D minor - op 61: I Allegro appassionato, Violin Concerto in D minor - op 61: I Allegro appassionato, Polonasie in D major - op 16, Polonasie in D major - op 16, Piano Concerto no 1 in E-flat major - op 4, Piano Concerto no 1 in E-flat major - op 4, Violin Concerto in D minor - op 61: II Adagio, Violin Concerto in D minor - op 61: II Adagio, Symphony no 1 in B minor - op 12: II Andante sostenuto - Pochissimo meno mosso, Symphony no 1 in B minor - op 12: II Andante sostenuto - Pochissimo meno mosso, Symphony no 1 in B minor - op 12: III Scherzo: Allegro vivace - Pochissimo meno mosso - Tempo I, Symphony no 1 in B minor - op 12: III Scherzo: Allegro vivace - Pochissimo meno mosso - Tempo I, Violin Concerto in D minor - op 61: III Tempo I, Violin Concerto in D minor - op 61: III Tempo I, Pianoconcert nr 2, Pianoconcert nr 2, Piano Concerto no 2 in E-flat major - Op posth: III Allegro risoluto, Piano Concerto no 2 in E-flat major - Op posth: III Allegro risoluto, Rhapsody on Ukranian Themes - op 28, Rhapsody on Ukranian Themes - op 28, Symphony no 1 in B minor - op 12: I Andantino - Allegro con spirito - Poco piu tranquillo - Tempo I (Poco animato) - Poco piu tranquillo - Tempo I (Allegro con spirito) - Poco piu tranquillo - Piu mosso, Symphony no 1 in B minor - op 12: I Andantino - Allegro con spirito - Poco piu tranquillo - Tempo I (Poco animato) - Poco piu tranquillo - Tempo I (Allegro con spirito) - Poco piu tranquillo - Piu mosso, 12 Transcendentale Etudes - op 11, 12 Transcendentale Etudes - op 11, Symphony no 1 in B minor - op 12: IV Finale: Allegro molto - Piu animato - Poco piu tranquillo - Meno mosso - grandioso - Piu animato, Symphony no 1 in B minor - op 12: IV Finale: Allegro molto - Piu animato - Poco piu tranquillo - Meno mosso - grandioso - Piu animato, Rapsodie op Oekraiense thema's, Rapsodie op Oekraiense thema's Similar People Mily Balakirev, Dmitry Yablonsky, Martyn Brabbins, Hamish Milne, Michael Ponti |
Sergei lyapunov nocturne op 8 audio sheet music
Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov (or Liapunov; Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович Ляпуно́в, [sʲɪrˈɡʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ lʲɪpʊˈnof]; 30 November [O.S. 18 November] 1859 – 8 November 1924) was a Russian composer and pianist.
Contents
- Sergei lyapunov nocturne op 8 audio sheet music
- Sergei lyapunov 7 preludes op 6 audio sheet music
- Life
- Works with opus numbers
- Works without opus numbers
- References

Sergei lyapunov 7 preludes op 6 audio sheet music
Life
Lyapunov was born in Yaroslavl in 1859. After the death of his father, Mikhail Lyapunov, when he was about eight, Sergei, his mother, and his two brothers (one of them was Aleksandr Lyapunov, later a notable mathematician) went to live in the larger town of Nizhny Novgorod. There he attended the grammar school along with classes of the newly formed local branch of the Russian Musical Society. On the recommendation of Nikolai Rubinstein, the Director of the Moscow Conservatory of Music, he enrolled in that institution in 1878. His main teachers were Karl Klindworth (piano; a former pupil of Franz Liszt), and Sergei Taneyev (composition; a former pupil of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and his successor at the Conservatory).
He graduated in 1883, more attracted by the nationalist elements in music of the New Russian School than by the more cosmopolitan approach of Tchaikovsky and Taneyev. He went to St. Petersburg in 1885 to seek Mily Balakirev, becoming the most important member of Balakirev's latter-day circle. Balakirev, who had himself been born and bred in Nizhny Novgorod, took Lyapunov under his wing, and oversaw his early compositions as closely as he had done with the members of his circle during the 1860s, now known as The Five. Balakirev's influence remained the dominant influence in his creative life.
In 1893, the Imperial Geographical Society commissioned Lyapunov, along with Balakirev and Anatoly Lyadov, to gather folksongs from the regions of Vologda, Vyatka (now Kirov) and Kostroma. They collected nearly 300 songs, which the society published in 1897. Lyapunov arranged 30 of these songs for voice and piano and used authentic folk songs in several of his compositions during the 1890s.
He succeeded Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov as assistant director of music at the Imperial Chapel, became a director of the Free Music School, then its head, as well as a professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1911. After the Revolution he emigrated to Paris in 1923 and directed a school of music for Russian émigrés, but died of a heart attack the following year. For many years the official Soviet line was that Lyapunov had died during a concert tour of Paris, no acknowledgement being made of his voluntary exile.
Lyapunov enjoyed a successful career as a pianist. He made several tours of Western Europe, including one of Germany and Austria in 1910–1911. From 1904 he also made appearances as a conductor, mounting the podium by invitation in Berlin and Leipzig in 1907.
He is largely remembered for his Douze études d'exécution transcendente. This set completed the cycle of the 24 major and minor keys that Franz Liszt had started with his own Transcendental Études but had left unfinished. Not only was Lyapunov's set of études as a whole dedicated to the memory of Franz Liszt, but the final étude was specifically titled Élégie en memoire de Franz Liszt.
In the spring of 1910 Lyapunov recorded some of his own works for the reproducing piano Welte-Mignon (Op. 11, Nos. 1, 5, and 12; Op. 35).
Works with opus numbers
- Etude in D-flat
- Intermezzo in E-flat minor
- Waltz in A-flat major
- Berceuse ("Lullaby") in F-sharp major
- Ronde des Fantômes ("Ghosts' dance") in D-sharp minor
- Carillon in B major
- Térek ("The River Terek") in G-sharp minor
- Nuit d'été ("Summer night") in E major
- Tempête ("Tempest") in C-sharp minor
- Idylle in A major
- Chant épique ("Epic song") in F-sharp minor
- Harpes éoliennes ("Aeolian harps") in D major
- Lesghinka in B minor
- Ronde des sylphes ("Dance of the sylphs") in G major
- Elégie en mémoire de François Liszt ("Elegy in memory of Liszt") in E minor
- Fairies' Lullaby
- Combat and Death of Tchernomor
- Loup-garou
- Le Vautour: jeu d'enfants
- Ronde des enfants
- Colin-maillard
- Chansonette enfantine
- Jeu de course
- Prélude
- Elégie
- Humoresque
- Nuit de Noël
- Cortège des mages
- Chanteurs de Noël
- Chant de Noël
- Jeu de paume (Playing ball)
- Berceuse d'un poupée (Lullaby for a doll)
- Sur une escarpolette (On the swings)
- A cheval sur un bâton (Riding on a stick)
- Conte de la bonne ("La vieille et l'ours") (Nurse’s story)
- Ramage des enfants (Children’s chatter)