Sollertinsky, Ivan Ivanovich

Ivan Sollertinsky was born into the family of the chairman of the district court, since 1903 a privy councilor , since 1906 - senator ^[1] Ivan Sollertinsky (1850-1907) and Ekaterina Bobashinsky, whose father belonged to one of the branches of the Sas gentry coat of arms ^[2] . After the sudden death of her husband, Ekaterina Iosifovna with three young children in her arms returned to Vitebsk, to relatives. Here Ivan Sollertinsky studied at the Vitebsk gymnasium . In his youth he was friends with Mikhail Bakhtin , with whom he was a member of the philosophical circle in Nevel .

In 1921-1924 he studied at the University of Petrograd , where he studied Romano-Germanic philology and Spanish classical literature . At the same time, Sollertinsky studied the history of the theater at the Institute of the History of Arts , which he graduated in 1923 , in 1926-1929 he went through graduate school in it. In the mid-1920s, he took private conducting lessons from Nikolai Malko , however, he mastered further musical education on his own. Since 1923, Sollertinsky taught the history of music, literature, theater, psychology, aesthetics and a number of other disciplines in various universities of Leningrad , including, since 1936, at the Leningrad Conservatory ; in 1939 received the title of professor.

Since the late 1920s, Sollertinsky has been a lecturer at the Leningrad Philharmonic and her repertoire adviser. In 1934 - 1941, he also worked in a publishing house at the Philharmonic, and later became its artistic director, combining this activity with work in the Opera and Ballet Theater. Kirov . During his work, Sollertinsky gave a huge number of open lectures, took an active part in the formation of the concert and opera repertoire.

During the Great Patriotic War, together with the Philharmonic society , he was evacuated to Novosibirsk , worked in the building of the House of Culture named after the October Revolution (24 Lenin Street ).

Suddenly died at the apartment of composer A.P. Novikov in Novosibirsk (56 Red Prospect ). He was buried at the Zaeltsovsky cemetery (51 plots) ^[3] .

Sollertinsky is one of the largest Soviet music and theater critics of the 1920s - 1930s. Possessing a phenomenal memory, deep knowledge and brilliant oratory, Sollertinsky was one of the most prominent figures in the cultural life of Leningrad at that time. Very popular were his lectures and articles, designed in an elegant, accurate style. One of Sollertinsky’s main areas of interest was ballet , a large number of his works in the 1930s were devoted to this art. Sollertinsky was one of the first in the USSR to study in detail the work of Mahler and Schoenberg , wrote a number of monographs on Soviet and foreign composers, and numerous articles in Soviet newspapers and magazines.

A well-known writer, a close friend of Sollertinsky, Irakli Andronikov spoke of him like this:

He was a talented, [...] musicologist, critic, publicist, outstanding philologist, theater expert, historian and ballet theorist, a brilliant lecturer, a man of phenomenal education, wit, wit, memory - a professor at the conservatory, who also taught in Theater Institute, and at the Choreographic School, and at the Institute of Art History, where, by the way, at the verbal department, he taught courses in logic and psychology, and visited the other department as a student. And when he received his teaching salary, he sometimes signed in the financial statement, as it were, by mistake, in Japanese, Arabic or Greek: an innocent joke of a man who knew twenty-six foreign languages ​​and one hundred dialects! ^[four]

For many years Sollertinsky was connected by friendship with the composer Dmitry Shostakovich , which influenced the development of the composer's work. Shostakovich’s second piano trio, written in 1944, is dedicated to the memory of Sollertinsky.

Books

Featured Articles

• Sollertinsky I. “The Prisoner of the Caucasus ” // L. M. Lavrovsky. Documents. Articles. Memories . - M .: WTO, 1983 .-- 422 p. - 10,000 copies.

• In 2007, Vitebsk hosted the XIX International Music Festival named after I.I. Sollertinsky ^[5]
• Vitebsk State College of Music named after II Sollertinsky ^[6] ( Vitebsk ) ^{[7] [8]}
• Monument in front of the Vitebsk State College of Music named after I.I.Sollertinsky (2003, sculptor V. the Mighty).
• At the Novosibirsk Conservatory there is a Student Symphony Orchestra named after I.I. Sollertinsky led by Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Viktor Minasyan.

• Belarusian encyclopedia: At 18 t / Redkal .: G.P. Pashkoў іnsh. - Mn. : BelEn, 2002. - T. 14: Rele - Slavyavіna. - 512 s. - 10,000 copies. - ISBN 985-11-0238-5 . (belor.)
• Dobrovolskaya G. B. V. Asafiev and I. I. Sollertinsky about ballet // Music and choreography of modern ballet . - L .: Music, 1977 .-- S. 234–239. - 1075 copies.
• Kantorovich B. Ya. Sollertinsky: [Essay on life and work]. - Vitebsk, 1997.
• Mikheeva L.I. Sollertinsky. Life and legacy. - L .: Sov. composer, 1988 .-- 256 p. - 10,000 copies.
• In memory of I. I. Sollertinsky. Memories, materials, research. - L .; M .: Sov. composer, 1974.- 296 p. - 18,000 copies.
  • . - 2nd ed., Ext. - L .: Sov. composer, 1978.- 312 p. - 40,000 copies.
• Shostakovich D. Letters to I. I. Sollertinsky . - SPb. : Composer, 2006 .-- 300 p. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 5-7379-0304-4 .
• Enceklapedy literatura i mastastva Belarus: U 5-t / Redkal .: І. P. Shamyakin (gal. Red.) І інш. - Mn. : BelSE, 1986. - T. 4: Naktsurn - Skalsky. - 742 s. - 9500 copies. (belor.)

• "He lived between us." Remembering I.I.Sollertinsky
• Andronikov Irakliy “ABOUT THE SOLLERTINIAN SERIOUSLY”