“Evenings of Modern Music” is a circle organized in St. Petersburg in 1901 with the aim of promoting new foreign and Russian music. It existed until 1912.
Content
- 1 History
- 2 Programs
- 3 Interesting Facts
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature
- 6 References
History
The circle was associated with the art association "World of Art" . Among its founders, participants in the World of Art were V. F. Nouvel and A. P. Nurok [1] . The circle “Evenings of Contemporary Music” included novice composers - I. I. Kryzhanovsky , I.V. Pokrovsky (d. In 1906), young performers - pianists A. D. Medem [2] , L. V. Nikolaev , and others. Circle administration: V. G. Karatygin , I. I. Kryzhanovsky, A. D. Medem, V. F. Nouvel, A. P. Nurok, I.V. Pokrovsky, N.N. Cherepnin . Initially, “Evenings of Contemporary Music” was headed by Nouvel, and from about 1907, Karatygin. In the activities of "Evenings" took part A. N. Benois .
The first public evening was held March 31, 1902 in the Small Hall of the St. Petersburg Conservatory . Concert evenings (around five a season; 56 concerts in total) took place in the Small Hall of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, the halls of the Society of Civil Engineers ( Serpukhovskaya ul. 10), St. Petersburg Music School ( Nevsky Prospekt 16, then Troitskaya ul. 13) , Reformed School ( Embankment of the Moika River , 38).
“Russian Musical Newspaper” in 1907 (over the 6 years of the club’s existence) recognized him as “two merits” - namely, the performance of “exceptionally new” music that had not yet sounded in St. Petersburg, and the creation of a “more or less permanent audience” [3 ] .
In 1912, the circle broke up due to financial difficulties. In addition, the main innovative forces (Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Cherepnin) were involved in the entrepreneurial activities of S.P. Diaghilev .
Programs
The programs of “Evenings of Contemporary Music” were previously discussed at closed meetings of the circle with the participation of invited composers, performers, and critics. For the first time in Russia, some chamber compositions by K. Debussy , M. Ravel , S. Frank , V. d'Andy , E. Chausson , F. Schmitt , J. Roger-Ducas sounded here (French composers occupied a leading position in the programs). New Austrian and German music was performed - the works of R. Strauss , G. Wolf , G. Mahler , A. Schoenberg , M. Reger (the latter himself participated in the concert on December 3, 1906). The program included works by composers of Scandinavia, Spain, Poland, Hungary. Of the Russian composers, A. N. Scriabin , N. K. Metner , S. I. Taneev , N. N. Cherepnin , F. S. Akimenko , M. F. Gnesin performed here, and I.F. Stravinsky (December 17, 1907), S.S. Prokofiev and N.Ya. Myaskovsky (one evening, December 18, 1908). In addition, the works of composers of the 18th-19th centuries, little-known in Russia, sounded. Special meetings were dedicated to the work of M.P. Mussorgsky , N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov , A.P. Borodin .
Interesting Facts
Under the name "Evenings of Contemporary Music" concerts were held in Moscow (since 1909, at the initiative of KS Saradzhev and V.V. Derzhanovsky ), Petersburg / Petrograd (concerts of the magazine "Musical Contemporary" , 1915-1917; concerts "Art Bureau" by N. E. Dobychina , between 1911 and 1919).
Notes
- ↑ Nurok on the Wiktionary portal .
- ↑ Alexander Davidovich Medem (1871, Minsk - 1925, Voronezh) - pianist, composer, in 1902-1917. taught at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (professor since 1914). Since the fall of 1917 he lived in Voronezh.
- ↑ RMG, 1907, No. 44, stlb. 1007-1008.
Literature
- Nestiev I.V. Evenings of modern music // ME. T. 1 (1973) Stlb. 762-763.
- "Evenings of modern music" // Petrovskaya I. F. Musical education and musical public organizations in St. Petersburg 1801-1917. Encyclopedia. RIIII. - SPb., "Peter's Fund", 1999. S. 64-65. - ISBN No. 5-7559-0020-5.