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Interesting facts about the great Russian composers
The Emperor pointedly away from the premiere of Glinka's Opera.
The success of the composer came by his Opera "a Life for the Tsar" ("Ivan Susanin"). But the premiere of the second Opera by the composer — "Ruslan and Ludmilla" — Glinka brought sensitive a lot of grief. Premiere of the Opera took place in Bolshoi theatre in St. Petersburg on the same day as the premiere of the first Opera of Glinka – 9 Dec. High society Opera was not liked, the audience booed her, and the Emperor Nicholas I took and pointedly left the room.
Prokofiev invented a special kind of chess
Sergei Prokofiev – the conductor, pianist and one of the greatest Russian composers of the twentieth century. It is considered by the Russian musical Prodigy: compositonal he was five years old, at nine he had written two operas, and at the age of thirteen became a student at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
Left the Homeland in 1918, in 1936 he returned to the USSR. But in 1948, Poliburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) issued a decree, which accused Prokofiev and other musicians in the "formalism" and their music was declared "harmful". The first wife of the composer, a Spaniard by birth, was exiled to the camps, where he spent three years.
Prokofiev's passion was chess. He didn't just love to play, but also enriched the game with his ideas by proposing the so-called "devyaternuyu" chess Board with a 24x24 field where you can play nine sets of figures.
He is the Creator of son et lumière
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin showed musical talent from childhood. After he graduated from the cadet corps he entered the Moscow Conservatory, and then devoted himself completely to music. His deeply poetic and original works — innovative, even against the background of new trends in music, associated with changes in the political system and public life in the early twentieth century.
So, in the score written in his symphonic poem "Prometheus" Scriabin included a party for the world. But the Prime Minister, for technical reasons, took place without lighting effects.
We remind that recently released the world's first 24-hour music video.
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The success of the composer came by his Opera "a Life for the Tsar" ("Ivan Susanin"). But the premiere of the second Opera by the composer — "Ruslan and Ludmilla" — Glinka brought sensitive a lot of grief. Premiere of the Opera took place in Bolshoi theatre in St. Petersburg on the same day as the premiere of the first Opera of Glinka – 9 Dec. High society Opera was not liked, the audience booed her, and the Emperor Nicholas I took and pointedly left the room.
Prokofiev invented a special kind of chess
Sergei Prokofiev – the conductor, pianist and one of the greatest Russian composers of the twentieth century. It is considered by the Russian musical Prodigy: compositonal he was five years old, at nine he had written two operas, and at the age of thirteen became a student at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
Left the Homeland in 1918, in 1936 he returned to the USSR. But in 1948, Poliburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) issued a decree, which accused Prokofiev and other musicians in the "formalism" and their music was declared "harmful". The first wife of the composer, a Spaniard by birth, was exiled to the camps, where he spent three years.
Prokofiev's passion was chess. He didn't just love to play, but also enriched the game with his ideas by proposing the so-called "devyaternuyu" chess Board with a 24x24 field where you can play nine sets of figures.
He is the Creator of son et lumière
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin showed musical talent from childhood. After he graduated from the cadet corps he entered the Moscow Conservatory, and then devoted himself completely to music. His deeply poetic and original works — innovative, even against the background of new trends in music, associated with changes in the political system and public life in the early twentieth century.
So, in the score written in his symphonic poem "Prometheus" Scriabin included a party for the world. But the Prime Minister, for technical reasons, took place without lighting effects.
We remind that recently released the world's first 24-hour music video.
Source: /users/413
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