Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi ( Fr. Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi ; October 2, 1877 , Marseille - February 1, 1944 , London ) is a French-British musicologist of Greek origin.
| Michelle Dimitri Calvocoressi fr Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi | |
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 Kalvokoressi, 1913 | |
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| Date of Birth | October 2, 1877 |
| Place of Birth | Marseilles |
| Date of death | February 1, 1944 (66 years old) |
| Place of death | London |
| A country | France, UK |
| Professions | musicologist |
He studied music and social sciences in Paris , however, being primarily self-taught. He was close to Maurice Ravel and is believed to have introduced the French composer to Modest Mussorgsky 's work “ Pictures from the Exhibition ” (which the world musical culture owes to the appearance of the most popular orchestral arrangement of “Pictures” made by Ravel); In general, Kalvokoressi was passionate about Russian music and promoted it both in Paris and in London, where he moved in 1914 .
In addition to numerous articles in magazines (mainly Parisian), Calvocoressi owns a number of books, including Russian Music ( French La Musique russe ; Paris, 1907), Principles and Methods of Musical Criticism ( French Principes et méthodes de la critique musicale ; London, 1923, 1933), “ Musical Taste and How to Form It ” ( Eng. Musical Taste and How to Form It , London, 1925), “Masters of Russian Music” ( Eng. Masters of Russian Music , London, 1936, second edition 1944, together with Gerald Abraham ). Kalvokoressi devoted separate monographs to Liszt ( 1906 ), Mussorgsky ( 1908 , supplemented by a reprint of 1946 ), Glinka ( 1911 ), Schumann ( 1912 ), Debussy ( 1941 ).
The seventh Mazurka of M.A. Balakirev (1906) is dedicated to Kalvokoressi
Literature
- “Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi.” Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Centennial Edition. Nicolas Slonimsky, Editor Emeritus. Schirmer, 2001.