Johann Grigorievich Admoni (original surname Red ; 1906 , Dessau - 1979 , Leningrad ) - Soviet composer , pianist , teacher and public figure, son of the famous Petersburg historian, publicist and Jewish public figure Grigory Yakovlevich Krasny-Admoni . The elder brother of the famous Soviet linguist Vladimir Grigoryevich Admoni . Head of the Seminar of Amateur Composers at the House of Composers in Leningrad .
| Johann Admoni | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Johann Grigoryevich Red |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | |
| Date of death | September 5, 1979 |
| Place of death | Leningrad , USSR |
| Buried | |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Professions | composer , film composer , pianist , music teacher |
| Instruments | the piano |
| Genres | symphonic and chamber music , opera , ballet |
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Biography
Youth
By birth, he bore the surname of his father - Grigory Yakovlevich Krasny, but his father from 1917 began to use the translation of the word Krasny into Hebrew - Admoni for his surname and from 1922 this pseudonym was passed on to his children, Johann and Vladimir [1] .
In 1922, I. G. Admoni entered Petrograd, later Leningrad State University, at the Faculty of Social Sciences. During a radical purge of the university, in 1924, he was kicked out. [2] However, from childhood he was attracted to music, the basics of knowledge of which he received from the father of a well-singing and even some time-trained singer at the St. Petersburg Conservatory , and in 1927 I. G. Admoni, after showing his own romances at the entrance exams, was accepted to the composition class of the famous teacher of the Leningrad Conservatory M.O. Steinberg , from whom D. D. Shostakovich previously studied. After graduating from the Conservatory in 1931, the young composer was sent to Vologda , to the Drama Theater as the musical director of the theater and composer.
Musical creativity
After receiving a systematic musical education, I. G. Admoni writes a lot of music in the form of romances to verses by the most famous poets, A. Blok , G. Heine and others.
Further, the young author’s imagination leads him to create large-scale canvases - the opera The Undertaker and the ballets AO and The Salamanders, whose music style was not as avant-garde as that of contemporary composers. This led to little support for the music of the author among contemporary musicians. As a result, I. G. Admoni has since ceased to work in large forms until the early 1950s. In 1951 he wrote one of his last major works, “Concert for Piano and Orchestra.”
Also, the author of opera and ballets writes a lot of music for performances and films.
Community Activities
Paying tribute to his work at the Drama Theater in Vologda , the musician was attracted by the real musical social life, which took place in his opinion only in Leningrad and during 1932-1933 he managed to transfer his experience in the development of musical art in Vologda to similar work in the regional youth theaters in Leningrad organized the first in its practice circles of musical amateur performances for people from the people who were not able to immediately enter the Conservatory .
In 1934-1935 he becomes editor of Radio , In 1937-1938 - A musical broadcast referent, director and artistic director of the Concert Bureau of the Leningrad Philharmonic , in 1939-1941. - Music Director of Lengosestrada .
Before the start of World War II, in 1941 he was arrested on a denunciation and from 1941 to 1946 he spent in Stalin's camps , from where he managed to escape only thanks to the intercession of D. D. Shostakovich, who had achieved world fame.
Having no right to live in Leningrad after his release from the Gulag , since he had not yet been rehabilitated at that time, I. G. Admoni lived in Uzbekistan and taught composition at the Tashkent Conservatory . In 1947-1949, I. G. Admoni, overcoming legal barriers, returned to Leningrad, where, together with like-minded people, to which I. Ya. Pustylnik belongs most of all, he fully contributes to the organization at the Composers House in Leningrad of an informal free (folk) music institution - Seminar of amateur composers .
Later similar seminars were created in other cities of the USSR , but the very idea and birth of such an institution was forever associated with I. G. Admoni. He becomes his permanent leader and teacher of composition. The seminar operates within the framework of the Charter of the Leningrad Organization of the Union of Composers of the USSR , which allows students-seminarians to enter various musical secondary and higher educational institutions, in particular, to the Leningrad Conservatory on a common basis, but with a lot of knowledge in the field of music.
I. G. Admoni for many years was deputy chairman of the Leningrad Organization of the Union of Composers of the USSR . In 1960-1967 in parallel with working with amateur composers, I. G. Admoni was the musical director of the Lennauchfilm film studio.
I. G. Admoni often acted as a music critic and reviewer in the Leningrad periodical.
Died I.G. Admoni at the age of 73 years in 1979.
A cousin is Leo Isaakovich Krasny , Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences.
Major works
- Opera : The Undertaker (based on poems by A. Pushkin , 1935)
- Ballets : AO (1936), The War on the Salamanders (based on the works of K. Chapek , 1938) and Natasha Rostova (based on the works of L. Tolstoy , 1941, unfinished)
- Symphonic poem "Petrograd of 1917" (another name: " Lenin in Smolny") (1936)
- Cantatas : “Livelier than All Alive” (1960) and “Triptych of the Revolution” (1971) to verses by Soviet poets.
- Concert for piano and orchestra (1951)
- Romances : for voice and piano (over 100), including words A. Bloka (more than 20) - The poem “Circle” (7 romances), Triptych “Carmen”, Romances “Ksyusha”, “Sing”, “I Remember”, “Don't Sleep”, “I'm Nailed”, “Kite”, “I Am Hamlet” and others (1938-1950), Three ballads from the Songs of the Western Slavs by A. Pushkin : “Hajduk Chrysich”, “Vlach in Venice”, “Funeral Song” (1940-1949) “Triptych on the v. M. Rylsky "(1946)," Triptych on the next. A. Miscavige ”(1955), Ballads to the verses of Icelandic poets of the XX century (1959), romances on the words R. Burns , G. Hoffmannsthal , S. George and others.
- Vocal cycles to verses by A. Blok (1957) and G. Heine (1958)
- Film music: Planet of the Storms, etc.
- Songs : for theater and radio.
Membership in organizations
- Member of the Leningrad organization of the Union of composers of the USSR , deputy chairman of this organization.
Memory
He was buried at the Transfiguration of the Jewish cemetery in St. Petersburg [3] .
The name of I. G. Admoni is listed in the "Red Book of Soviet (now Russian) Estrada" [4] .
Notes
- ↑ The wife of G. Ya. Krasny-Admoni, Raisa Yakovlevna Pumper, the daughter of a St. Petersburg attorney, gave birth to Germany, with whom she was connected by paternal family ties. Thus, the German city of Dessau became the birthplace of the future composer.
- ↑ Tamara Silman, Vladimir Admoni. We remember. Novel. - St. Petersburg: Composer, 1993. - S. 120. - 504 p.
- ↑ Jewish cemetery of St. Petersburg. Grave Care. - Search .
- ↑ Johann Admoni