Lamm, Pavel Alexandrovich

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	P. A. Lamm among participants in musical evenings
	[1] Members of the circle of P. A. Lamm in his apartment in the White Hall of the Moscow Conservatory: S. E. Feinberg , S. S. Popov, P. A. Lamm, D. M. Melkikh, A. M. Shabolin (daughter Gube), V. M. Belyaev , N. Ya. Myaskovsky, An. N. Alexandrov , unknown musician, A. A. Shinshin, A. F. Gedike , A. A. Efremenkov, M. M. Gube

Pavel Aleksandrovich Lamm
Pavel Aleksandrovich Lamm
Date of Birth	July 16, 1882
Place of Birth	Moscow ; Russian empire
Date of death	May 5, 1951 (68 years old)
A place of death	Nikolina Horus , ; Moscow region ; RSFSR , USSR
Buried	;
A country	Russian Empire the USSR
Professions	performer, musicologist , music teacher
Instruments	piano

Pavel Aleksandrovich Lamm (Paul Lamm, 1882-1951) - musicologist, source critic, pianist, teacher. Doctor of Arts (1944).

Content

1 Biography
2 Scientific activities
3 Awards
4 Family
5 notes
6 Literature
7 References

Biography

Born on July 3 ( July 16 ), 1882 in Moscow. The son of mechanic Alexander Fedorovich Lamm ( Alexander Lamm , 1841-1902), a native of Saxony and Ekaterina Osipovna (nee Shtelling), the daughter of a dye master, a native of Bavaria, who converted to Orthodoxy.

He studied at the Faculty of Law, University of Bonn and at the Higher Commercial School at the University of Cologne (1900-1902). He received his primary musical education in Moscow from A.T. Grechaninov (theory of music) and F.E. Lercher (piano) (1896-1900 and 1904). In 1912 he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory ^[1] . Pupil K.A. Kipp and N.E. Shishkin. From his student years he was accompanied by A.V. Stenbock-Fermor, N.A. Olenina-D'Alheim, E.V. Koposova. Often performed in concerts of the society "House of Songs" (was his full member) and "Evenings of Contemporary Music". Then he became close to composers A. A. Olenin and N. Ya. Myaskovsky , who dedicated P. A. Lamm his Seventh Symphony. Until 1917 he performed as a pianist.

In 1914 he was arrested as a foreign national of a state hostile to Russia, he was soon released, but sent to Birsk in the Ufa province. Since 1918, he was the head of the archival section of the MUSO of the People's Commissariat of Education, in 1918-1923 he headed the State Music Publishing House, where he founded the State Music Notary with archives of manuscripts and rare editions.

In 1921, P. A. Lamm received an apartment at the Moscow Conservatory, where evenings were arranged on Wednesdays to play and listen to the music of Russian and foreign classics and contemporary composers. Among the constant participants in such meetings were K. S. Saradzhev , N. G. Alexandrova , A. A. Shenshin, D. M. Melkikh, M. G. Gube. Often there were A. F. Gedike , V. M. Belyaev , An. N. Alexandrov , S. E. Feinberg , N. Ya. Myaskovsky, S. S. Prokofiev and M. A. Prokofiev , V. Ya. Shebalin , Yu. S. Nikolsky , B. V. Asafiev (in his visits to Moscow in 1920-1930), S. A. Malyavin and other musicians ^[3] .

According to the false denunciation of the composer A. A. Krein, in 1923 he was arrested and spent several months in Butyrka prison; was released thanks to the request of A. B. Goldenweiser .

In 1924-1929, he was a full member of the Music Section of the State Academy of Arts, in 1927-1930, a corresponding member of the Institute of Art History. In 1938-1947, he was the head of the chamber class at the K. S. Stanislavsky Opera Studio.

He taught at the Moscow Conservatory in 1919-1951 (professor since 1939) ^[1] . He taught classes for reading scores (“the practical study of symphonic literature”), chamber ensemble, and general piano. Among the students: A. I. Vedernikov , E. D. Kruglikova , L. N. Oborin , N. Starokadomsky, V. Ya. Shebalin . In 1944-1948 he also worked in the Commission on Source Studies and Textology of the Research Office of the Moscow Conservatory.

P. A. Lamm was very close and friends with S. S. Prokofiev, who entrusted him with decoding and composing orchestral scores of his major works, including the operas Semyon Kotko , War and Peace , The Tale of a Real Man and the ballet " Cinderella " ^[1] .

He died on May 5, 1951 in the village of Nikolina Gora, Moscow Region ^[1] . He was buried in Moscow at the Vvedensky cemetery .

Scientific activity

P. A. Lamm went down in the history of Russian science primarily as a source specialist who prepared the first critical (autographed) edition of the works of Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky . This publication, released in the 1930s and long becoming a bibliographic rarity, has not lost its relevance.

Rewards

Order of the Red Banner of Labor (12.28.1946)

Family

Niece and adopted daughter - O. P. Lamm
Great-grandson - Denis Germanovich Lomtev (b. 1972), musicologist, Ph.D., graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, worked at the Department of the History of Foreign Music of the Conservatory

Notes

↑ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ Yakovlev, 1976 .
↑ Members of the circle P.A. Lamm (neopr.) . VMOMK named after M.I. Glinka (January 5, 1995). Date of appeal October 1, 2017. (unavailable link)
↑ Lamm O.P. Memoirs of N. Ya. Myaskovsky // N. Ya. Myaskovsky. Articles. Letters. Memoirs: in 2 volumes / Myaskovsky N. Ya .; Ed., Comp. and note. S.I. Shlifshtein . - 1st ed. - M .: Soviet composer, 1959. - T. 1. - S. 209-214. - 360 p. - 1 450 copies.

Literature

Lamm P. A. Restoration of the original text of Boris Godunov // Mussorgsky. Boris Godunov. Articles and studies. M., 1930, p. 13-38.
Lamm, O. P. The First Years of the State Music Publishing House // Soviet Musical Culture. History, traditions, modernity. M., 1980, p. 190-206.
Lomtev D. Pavel Lamm. Pages of a creative life // Musical Academy, 1992, No. 3, p. 168-170.
Lomtev D. German musicians in Russia: on the history of the formation of Russian conservatories. M., 1999.
Lomtev D. Deutsche Musiker in Russland: Zur Geschichte der Entstehung der russischen Konservatorien. Sinzig, 2002.
Lomtev D. Die Deutschen in der russischen Musikwissenschaft. Lage, 2008.

Links

Yakovlev M.M. Lamm P.A. // Musical Encyclopedia : in 6 volumes / Ch. ed. Yu. V. Keldysh . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia. Soviet composer, 1976. - T. 3. - 1104 stb.
http://www.mosconsv.ru/en/person.aspx?id=130260
http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enc_biography/68424/Lamm

[_412cb18a45150b4b-1] ¹ ² ³ ⁴ Yakovlev, 1976 .

[2] Members of the circle P.A. Lamm (neopr.) . VMOMK named after M.I. Glinka (January 5, 1995). Date of appeal October 1, 2017. (unavailable link)

[3] Lamm O.P. Memoirs of N. Ya. Myaskovsky // N. Ya. Myaskovsky. Articles. Letters. Memoirs: in 2 volumes / Myaskovsky N. Ya .; Ed., Comp. and note. S.I. Shlifshtein . - 1st ed. - M .: Soviet composer, 1959. - T. 1. - S. 209-214. - 360 p. - 1 450 copies.