Korganov, Genary Osipovich

The son of Major General Osip Ivanovich Korganov (1811-1870). Five brothers and sisters Genaria Korganov became vocalists: singer Elena Teryan-Korganova , Nina Korganova (Dariali) , Maria Korganova (Svetadze), singers Ivan (Hovhannes) and Konstantin Korganov.

He began to study music in Tiflis under the leadership of Edward Epstein . Then he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory ( 1874 - 1877 ) under Karl Reinecke , Salomon Jadasson and E.F. Wenzel , in 1877 - 1879 . He improved as a pianist at the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Louis Brassin and Gustav Cross . Returning to Georgia in 1880 and settling in Tiflis , he entered the civil service, continuing to engage in composition in his spare time. Concerted in the city as a soloist, belonged to the closest circle of Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov ^[2] . He appeared in Tiflis newspapers as a music critic. He participated in the work of the Tiflis branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society , from which in 1889 he was delegated to St. Petersburg to celebrate the anniversary of Anton Rubinstein . He died on the way home from St. Petersburg.

Korganov owns a number of piano pieces (fantasy "Bayati", "Arabesque", "Miniatures", "Watercolors" and others) and romances ("Don Juan Serenade", "Acute Ax" - to the words of A.T. Tolstoy , " What is the silence of the nights? ”To the words of A. N. Maikov , and others), some of them enjoyed certain popularity during the author’s life (in particular, Arthur Hartman published violin transcriptions in the USA). The style of Korganov is connected both with the influence of N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov and with the use of local Transcaucasian melodies: according to Armenian musicologist S. Apoyan, “works of Korganov connected with Armenian themes are of great value for the formation of Armenian piano music” ^[3] .

• Korganov, Genary Osipovich: notes on the International Music Score Library Project