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1. Summary Jules Massenet. Manon MANON Opera in five acts1 Libretto by A. Meliak and F. Gilles Characters: Manon Lescaut Poussetta Soprano Soprano Soprano Mezzo soprano Soprano Tenor Bass Baritone Bass or baritone Baritone Baritone Javotta Rosette } Girlfriends Manon Maid Cavalier de Grieux Count de Grieux, his father Lesko, cousin of Manon Guillot de Morfontaine De Bretigny The owner […]...
2. Summary Jules Massenet. Werther VERTER Lyrical drama in four acts (five scenes) Libretto by E. Blot, P. Mille and G. Hartmann Characters: Werther Albert Judge Tenor Baritone Baritone or bass Tenor Baritone or bass Baritone Mezzo soprano Soprano Mezzo soprano Baby voices soprano Without speeches Schmidt Johann } Friends of the judge Brühlmann, young man Charlotte, the daughter of […]...
3. Summary Charles Gounod CHARLES GUONE 1818-1893 Gounod is an outstanding French composer, who made a significant contribution to the development of national traditions of democratic art. In his best operas, he strove for a true transfer of the life drama of ordinary people, to a colorful sketch of real life. These features of the plot and the means […]...
4. Summary Nikolay Vitalievich Lysenko NIKOLAI VITALEVICH LYSENKO 1842-1912 The founder of the Ukrainian national composer school, Lysenko was the largest connoisseur of folk songs and a musical and public figure, choral conductor and pianist. His musical heritage includes operas, cantatas, romances, piano pieces and other instruments. The outstanding talent of the composer was most fully manifested in the field […]...
5. Summary Giacomo Meyerbeer JACOMO MEYEREBER 1791-1864 Meyerbeer entered the history of musical culture as the largest representative of the romantic musical theater of France. He approved the type of five-act “big opera”, calculated for the splendor of the production and spectacular spectacularity. At the heart of the musical drama of Meyerbeer is the principle of impressive contrasts, the […]...
6. Summary of Giacomo Puccini JACOMO PUCCIÑI 1858-1924 Puccini is the largest, after Verdi, Italian composer, who developed realistic principles of national opera art. In terms of its ideological and artistic attitudes, Puccini adjoined the movement in Italian literature and theater of the late nineteenth century, which received the name of verism. In modern subjects and everyday life of ordinary […]...
7. Summary Eduard Franzevich Napravnik EDUARD FRANCEEVICH DIRECTORATE 1839-1916 Napravnik went down in the history of Russian music as a wonderful conductor and talented composer. He owns 4 operas, 4 symphonies, orchestral pieces, piano concerto, chamber ensembles, choirs, romances, compositions for pianoforte, violin, cello and so on. As a composer Napravnik did not have a vivid creative individuality; his works […]...
8. Summary Alexander Sergeevich Dargomyzhsky ALEXANDER SERGEYEVICH DARGOMYZHSKY 1813-1869 In the history of Russian music, Dargomyzhsky entered as one of the founders of realistic art. Protest against social inequality, interest in the destinies of people from the people, social and accusatory orientation are the most important features of his creativity. His operas differ in the fineness of the embodiment of […]...
9. Summary Julius Sergeevich Meitus JULIA SERGEYEVIC MAITUS The genus. in 1903 The creative activity of Meitus, one of the prominent composers of Soviet Ukraine, began in the 1930s. Deep interest in Ukrainian folk music from the very first steps determined the direction of his activities. Numerous processing of folk songs influenced the musical language of the original works of […]...
10. Summary of Georges Bizet GEORGE BIZE 1838-1875 Bizet is a great realist artist. His cheerful, colorful and temperamental music is distinguished by melodic richness and dramatic expressiveness. The national-democratic aspirations of the French composers of the 19th century were half a mile in Bizet’s work, their most complete and vivid embodiment. Georges Bizet was born in Paris on October […]...
11. Summary Uzeir Abdul Huseyn-oglu Hajibeyov UZEYIR ABDUL HUSSEIN-OGLA HAJIBEKOV 1885-1948 Gadzhibekov is an outstanding Azerbaijani composer, the founder of the national music school, a major music scholar and public figure. Showing a special interest in the theater, he laid the foundations of the Azerbaijani opera. Uzeir Abdul Huseyn-oglu Hajibeyov was born on September 17 (new) in 1885 in the village […]...
12. Summary of Gioacchino Rossini JOAKKINO ROSSINI 1792-1868 Rossini – an outstanding Italian composer of the last century, whose work was marked by the flowering of national opera. He was able to breathe new life into the traditional for Italy kinds of opera – comic (buffa) and “serious” (seria). Especially brightly Rossini’s talent unfolded in the field of opera buffa. […]...
13. Summary Ivan Ivanovich Dzerzhinsky IVAN IVANOVICH DZERZHINSKY The genus. in 1909 The opera genre is the main sphere of Dzerzhinsky’s creative interests. The heroics of the revolutionary and people’s liberation struggle, the pathos of labor, the images of contemporaries-these are the themes of his work. The wide use of revolutionary and Soviet songs, the simplicity and accessibility of the […]...
14. Summary Daniil Grigoryevich Frenkel DANIIL GRIGORIEVICH FRENKEL The genus. in 1906 Frenkel is the author of a large number of musical, theatrical, symphonic and chamber works. The main interests of the composer lie in the field of opera. The influence of the traditions of the Russian opera classics of the 19th century, especially Tchaikovsky, and in part Mussorgsky, affected […]...
15. Summary Tikhon Nikolaevich Khrennikov TIKHON NIKOLAEVICH Khrennikov The genus. in 1913 Khrennikov is a prominent Soviet composer, author of operas, symphonic works, mass songs, music for films and theater productions. Khrennikov’s music is cheerful, full of light, cheerful moods, warmed with sincere warmth and gentle humor. Simplicity and freshness bring her closer to popular creativity. The organic combination of […]...
16. Summary Konstantin Fedorovich Dankevich Konstantin Fedorovich Dankevich The genus. in 1905 One of the greatest composers of Soviet Ukraine Dankevich has shown himself in many genres. His creative work is characterized by a deep understanding of the spirit of Ukrainian musical folklore. In this Dankevich follows the precepts of the classic Ukrainian music N. V. Lysenko. The composer is […]...
17. Summary Christoph Willibald Gluck Christopher Willebald Gluck 1714-1787 Gluck entered the history of musical culture as a great reformer, who for many decades determined the ways of the development of the opera. His demands for dramatic truth, simplicity and naturalness corresponded to the advanced trends of the era. In place of court-aristocratic ceremonial performances with conventional plot and virtuosic […]...
18. Biography of Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne is a French writer, geographer. Born Jules Verne February 8, 1828 in the city of Nantes in the family of a lawyer. Education in the family with legal roots affected the biography of Jules Verne. In Paris, the future writer received legal knowledge. But in addition to law, Jules Verne was fond […]...
19. Summary of Bedřich Smetana SHEET SMITH 1824-1884 Sour cream is called the father of new Czech music, Czech Glinka. In his work, the musical genius of the Czech people flourished magnificently, the pictures of Czechia’s history, people’s life and nature revived, the rhythms of folk dances, the melodies of Czech songs captivating in beauty and freshness sounded. The legacy […]...
20. Summary Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich DMITRY DMITRIEVICH SHOSTAKOVICH The genus. in 1906 Shostakovich is one of the greatest contemporary composers, an outstanding music and public figure, and a teacher. In the work of Shostakovich are represented all genres of musical art – opera and ballet, symphony and concerto, instrumental ensemble and romance, song and oratorio, operetta and music for cinema […]...
21. Summary Oles Semenovich Chishko Oles Semenovich Chishko The genus. in 1895 Chishko is a prominent Soviet composer who has worked extensively and successfully in various fields of musical art. Being a professional singer, Chishko paid much attention to vocal genres – opera, romance, song. His work is distinguished by the melodiousness, simplicity and accessibility of expression. From 1948 to […]...
22. Summary Ferenc Erkel FERENZ ERKEL 1810-1893 Erkel – the founder of the Hungarian national romantic opera and the largest of its representatives throughout the XIX century. In plots taken from the history of his native country, he stressed what directly echoed modernity, with the struggle of advanced people of Hungary against national and social oppression. It is no […]...
23. Summary Richard Wagner RICHARD WAGNER 1813-1883 Wagner is the largest foreign composer of the second half of the 19th century. With his work he completed the development of the German romantic opera and made a significant contribution to the history of the world’s musical art. The central place in Wagner’s heritage is occupied by operas (altogether there are […]...
24. What is opera Opera in translation from Italian means composition. Opera is a kind of musical-dramatic work based on a harmonious combination of music, stage action and words. Opera differs from other types of dramatic theater in that music is the main bearer of action, its driving force. For the first time the opera originated in Italy, in […]...
25. Summary Children of Captain Grant Jules Verne Jules Verne Children of Captain Grant On June 26, 1864, the crew of the Duncan yacht, owned by Lord Edward Glenarvan, the most prominent member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club and a wealthy Scottish landowner, catches the shark in the Irish Sea, in the belly of which finds a bottle with a note in […]...
26. Summary Nazib Gayazovich Zhiganov Nazib Gayazovich Zhiganov The genus. in 1911 Zhiganov is a talented Soviet composer, the largest representative of the Tatar musical culture. His work is characterized by a close connection with the poetic and musical folklore of the Tatar people, the ideas of modernity, a deep interest in the spiritual order, the moral ideals of the […]...
27. Summary Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka MIKHAIL IVANOVICH GLAIN 1804-1857 Glinka has an outstanding historical role in Russian classical music. Summarizing the achievements of his predecessors, he laid the foundations of the national musical style, discovered, like Pushkin in literature, the classical period in the history of Russian music. Creativity Glinka reflected the advanced aspirations of time. With freedom-loving poetry of […]...
28. Summary Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili ZAKHARIY PETROVICH PALIASHVILI 1871-1933 One of the most important stages of the musical history of Georgia is associated with the name of Paliashvili. His creative and social activities unfolded in the early 1900s, during the rise of national art. Paliashvili was the first classic of Georgian music. Based on folk traditions, using the achievements of […]...
29. Summary of Giuseppe Verdi JUZEPPE VERDI 1813-1901 Creativity Verdi marks the time of the full flowering of the Italian opera, it belongs to the best achievements of world realistic art. Filled with the pathos of freedom and hatred of the oppressors, Verdi’s operas served as the banners of the national liberation struggle against the Austrian yoke, which the Italian […]...
30. Summary Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin VISSSARION YAKOVLEVICH SHEBALIN 1902-1963 Shebalin is one of the outstanding Soviet composers. His creativity is characterized by the depth and significance of the designs, the brightness of the figurative incarnation, the clarity of compositional thinking, the perfection of professional mastery. Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin was born on June 11 (new) in 1902 in Omsk. He received […]...
31. Summary Fifteen-year-old captain Jules Verne Jules Verne Fifteen-year-old captain January 29, 1873, the schooner-brig “Pilgrim”, equipped for whaling, goes on a voyage from the port of Oakland, New Zealand. On board are the brave and experienced captain Gul, five experienced sailors, the fifteen-year-old sailor-sailor Dick Send, the ship Negro, and the wife of the owner of Pilgrim James Weldon, Mrs. […]...
32. Summary Nikolay Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov NIKOLAI ANDREEVICH ROMAN-KORSAKOV 1844-1908 Rimsky-Korsakov – an outstanding composer, music and public figure and teacher – left a huge creative legacy. It includes 15 operas, 3 symphonies, a number of orchestral works (among them the symphonic suite “Scheherazade”, 1888 and “The Spanish Capriccio”, 1887), numerous romances and other works are most popular. He also owns […]...
33. Summary Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky DMITRY BORISOVICH KABALEVSKY The genus. in 1904 Kabalevsky is one of the most active and versatile representatives of Soviet music. Composite creativity, he successfully combines with pedagogical, musical-critical and social activities. The music of Kabalevsky is permeated with the living breath of modern times. His heroes are the Soviet people, our youth. Various aspects of […]...
34. Summary Karl Maria Weber CARL MARIA WEBER 1786-1826 Weber is an outstanding German romantic composer. A versatile gifted personality – conductor, pianist, literary man, music and public figure, Weber was an active fighter for German national art. His creative heritage includes sonatas, concerts, program pieces for piano, chamber works, songs, but the leading role belongs to the opera. Weber’s […]...
35. Biography of Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner – German composer, conductor, philosopher. He was born on May 22, 1813 in the city of Leipzig. After the death of his father, stepfather Ludwig Geyer sent Richard to study music. The composition of musical works began at the age of 16 years, a year before, they wrote the first play. In […]...
36. Biography of Mikhail Glinka Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka is a great Russian composer. The author of such famous works as: opera “Ruslan and Lyudmila”, “Kamarinskaya” symphony and “Waltz-fantasy”, “Pathetic trio” and many others. Early years Born May 20, 1804 in the village Novospassky Smolensk province in his father’s estate. An important fact of the short biography of Glinka is the […]...
37. Summary of Pietro Mascagni Pietro Mascagni 1863-1945 Mascagni – one of the representatives of operatic faith. This direction arose under the influence of Italian literature and theater of the late XIX century. Heroes from the social lower classes, from the underprivileged and the poor, unreasoned life conflicts and human destinies, clashes of passions and characters – these are the […]...
38. Characteristics of creativity Tchaikovsky is a deeply national composer. In works he shows the life of Russian society, its way of life; gives a picture of Russian nature. The music is intonationally close to the Russian folk song. The composer himself wrote: “As for the Russian element in my music in general, that is, related to folk song […]...
39. Summary Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY 1840-1893 Tchaikovsky is a great composer who composed an epoch in the history of the world musical culture. Tchaikovsky’s life is an example of continuous, persistent work. He combined the fruitful work of the composer with the activity of a teacher-educator, critic-publicist, conductor. Tchaikovsky’s work is deeply national: he created a gallery […]...
40. Classical music composition Music is food for the soul. I fully support this statement. People choose and listen to different genres of music and, mainly, it depends on individual tastes. As for me, I choose music that matches my mood. All genres are equally good for me. In my understanding, classical music is associated with age-old music written […]...