Grigory Mitrofanovich Kontsevich ( November 17, 1863 , the village of Staronizhesteblievskaya Temryuk department of the Kuban region (now the Krasnoarmeysky district of the Krasnodar Territory ) - December 26, 1937 , Krasnodar Territory ) - Russian choir conductor , composer , choirmaster , teacher , musical ethnographer .
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Biography
In 1883 he graduated from the Kuban teacher’s seminary, where he became acquainted with musical notation, acquired skills in conducting singing lessons. He worked as a teacher at the Tengin village school. From 1887 he continued his education at the regency courses of the St. Petersburg Court singing chapel. Returning in 1892 to Yekaterinodar he was invited to the post of Regent of the Kuban Military Cossack Choir . He directed the choir until 1906.
He initiated the creation for the choristers of a comprehensive school and a special 2-class school for teaching the elementary course in choir management.
After the revolution, he worked in the department of public education (art department). He dealt with issues of musical choral art and amateur performances. He taught theory at the College of Music, in 1924-1925. led two-year choirmaster courses, trained choral workers in schools and folk clubs.
In 1936, it was decided to create the Kuban Cossack Choir. G. M. Kontsevich became the artistic director of the choir. The choir was restored as soon as possible, and in 1937 the State Song and Dance Ensemble of the Kuban Cossacks toured in Moscow.
On August 30, 1937 he was arrested on charges of attempted assassination of I.V. Stalin [1] and executed on December 26, 1937.
Rehabilitated posthumously in 1989.
Creativity
The author of vocal, piano plays, folk songs, works for male and mixed choirs, three-voice choruses (including Winter Road, Demons (on Pushkin ), Uncompressed Strip (on Nekrasov ), “ Oh you, my steppe ”,“ Winds are blowing ”(on the Koltsov village ),“ Orphan ”(on the Pleshcheyev village )), cantatas.
Collector of folk songs of the Kuban and Adygea .
Selected Editions
- manual "School singing in two and three uniform voices"
- song collections:
- "Four Seasons"
- “40 Little Russian Songs” (1904),
- “25 Little Russian Songs” (1907),
- "Bandurist"
- "Repertoire of the Kuban Military Singing Choir"
- jubilee collection with Russian songs processing linear Cossacks of the Kuban.
- “Musical folklore of the Circassians in the recordings of G. M. Kontsevich” (1997).
He published in his own editing 200 songs of the Black Sea Cossacks and a jubilee collection with Russian songs processing linear Cossacks Kuban.
In his work, he paid special attention to Ukrainian folk songs.
For merits in promoting folklore in 1910 at the Kuban Agricultural and Industrial Ethnographic Exhibition he was awarded a large silver medal.
His name is associated with the opening in 1935 of the conducting-choral department in the music school of Krasnodar and the creation of the Kuban Cossack Choir (1937).
Notes
- ↑ From the indictment: "... Kontsevich Grigory Mitrofanovich was an active participant in the counter-revolutionary Cossack rebel organization operating in the Kuban, on the instructions of which he was part of a terrorist group preparing a terrorist attack on members of the Soviet government and, above all, on Comrade Stalin. Being an art the head of the Kuban Cossack Choir, in the autumn of 1936, he was specially sent by the organization to Moscow to carry out a terrorist act, timed to commit such a the moment the choir performed at a gala evening at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater, dedicated to the anniversary of the Great October Revolution ... "
Literature
- B. Trekhbratov. “Encyclopedic Dictionary of the History of the Kuban: from ancient times until October 1917” / Krasnodar: Administration of the Krasnodar Territory, Office of Archives Affairs of the Administration of the Krasnodar Territory, Society of Historian Archivists of the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation, 1997.