Mikhail Ivanov (composer)


Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov was a Russian composer, critic and writer of music.

Biography

Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov was born in Moscow in 1849. He studied at the Technological Institute, Saint Petersburg, then at the Moscow Conservatory for a year, under Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Alexandre Dubuque. He lived the next six years of his life in Rome, where he associated with Franz Liszt and his pupils and studied with Giovanni Sgambati. He returned to Russia and became a music critic with the Novoye Vremya.
Many of his compositions were performed, but not published. Arias from his opera Zabava Puytatishna have been recorded by Olimpia Boronat, Eugenia Bronskaya and Leonid Sobinov. His liturgical piece The Lord's Prayer has been recorded by Nicolai Gedda.
He died in Rome in 1927.

Musical works

Potemkin's Feast, opera Zabava Putyatishna, opera The Proud Woman, opera Woe to the Wise, opera La Vestale, ballet A Night in May, symphonic poemSavonarola, symphonic poemSuite champêtreA Requiem, symphonic prologueMedea, incidental music
  • three orchestral suites
  • several cantatas
  • songs
  • piano pieces

Literary works

Pushkin in Music, monograph
  • ''Historic Development of Music in Russia''

Translations

  • Eduard Hanslick's Vom Musikalisch-Schönen
  • Nohl's ''Entwicklung der Kammermusik''