Aleksandr Ilyich Ziloti ( September 27 [ October 9 ] 1863 , Kharkov - December 8, 1945 , New York ) - Russian pianist, conductor and musical public figure.
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| Place of Birth | Starobelsky district , Kharkov province Russian empire |
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| Professions | pianist , conductor , music teacher |
| Instruments | the piano |
| Genres | classical music |
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Biography
Alexander Ziloti was born on September 27 ( October 9 ), 1863 in the estate of his parents in the Starobelsky district of Kharkov province . On the maternal side - a cousin of S.V. Rachmaninov , as well as his teacher at the Moscow Conservatory.
At the age of eight, Alexander Ziloti entered the Moscow Conservatory , where he studied in the class of N. S. Zverev on the piano, then transferred to the class of the director of the conservatory - N. G. Rubinstein . At the same time, he studied the theory of music under P. I. Tchaikovsky [4] , subsequently becoming his friend. After graduating from the conservatory, he took private lessons from Franz Liszt .
Speaking in concerts in Europe and Russia, Ziloti gained great fame for his elegant, talented play. Ziloti became one of the outstanding pianists of his time.
In 1880 - 1890 - professor of piano at the Moscow Conservatory . In 1887 he married V.P. Tretyakova, daughter of the founder of the Tretyakov Gallery .
Since 1900, his permanent residence was St. Petersburg . In the season of 1901 - 1902 he first conducted symphony concerts of the Philharmonic Society in Moscow . Ziloti arranged no less interesting concerts in St. Petersburg. In his programs, Russian music was given a very significant place. In concert programs, his friend and colleague Alexander Ossovsky often collaborated with A. I. Ziloti.
At the end of 1917, as the head of the Mariinsky Theater, he organized resistance and a strike against the Bolshevik coup, in which the entire Mariinsky team participated. By order of Lunacharsky, he was put in a dungeon in Petrograd. Contained in " Crosses ", miraculously escaped execution. He fled from Russia.
Since 1922 he lived in the United States, taught piano in New York, at the Juilliard School .
He died on December 8, 1945 in New York. He was buried in the cemetery of the Assumption Women's Novodiveevsky Monastery in Nanuet, New York.
Addresses in St. Petersburg
- 1903-1907 - 12th line, 9;
- 1907-1913 - embankment of the Kryukov Canal, 14.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 Ziloti, Alexander Ilyich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ed. A. M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Around the world .
Literature
- Ziloti A. I. My memories of F. Liszt: With 8 reproductions of portraits, manuscripts and software. - SPb. : type of. S. L. Kinda, 1911 .-- 61 p.
- Ziloti A. I. Memoirs and Letters / Comp. L. M. Kutateladze, ed. A.N. Raabena. - L. , 1963 .-- 468 p.
- Kutateladze L. M. A. I. Ziloti. - L. , 1963.
- Dmitry Kitsenko . Alexander Ziloti. 150th anniversary of birth - October 9, 2013.— [Electronic resource] // Access mode: http://dem-2011.livejournal.com/138656.html
Links
- Ziloti, Alexander Ilyich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Ziloti, Alexander Ilyich // Encyclopedia " Around the World ."
- Preserved recordings of the Ziloti game
- Biography A.I. Ziloti