Summary of Bedřich Smetana

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1. Summary Bedřich Smetana. Libusia LIBUSHE The solemn performance in three acts (six paintings) Libretto by J. Wenzig Characters: Libusche, Czech Princess Přemysl from Stadz Soprano Baritone Tenor Bass Bass Baritone Soprano Contralto Hrishoch from Otava Shtaglav from Radbuza } Brothers Lutobor from the Dobraslav Hills, their uncle Radovan from the Stone Bridge Krasava, daughter of Luthorb Radmila, sister of […]...
2. Summary Bedřich Smetana. Dalibor DALIBOR Opera in three acts (six scenes) Libretto by J. Wenzig Characters: Vladislav, King of the Czech Republic Dalibor Budivoj, the chief of the guard Judge Benesh, the jailer Vitek, squire of Dalibor Milada, the sister of the murdered burgrave Yitka, a village girl, Dalibor’s pupil Bass Tenor Baritone Bass Bass Tenor Mezzo soprano Soprano […]...
3. Summary Antonín Dvořák ANTONIN Dvorak 1841-1904 Antonin Dvořák is the largest Czech composer who, along with his older contemporary Smetana, is a classic of Czech music, the founder of the national composer school. In the formation of the national original art of the Czech Republic, he played a huge role. Dvorak’s music is distinguished by its exceptional melodic […]...
4. Summary Bedřich Smetana. The sold bride SOLD BRIDE Comic opera in three acts Libretto by K. Sabina (Russian text by S. Mikhalkov) Characters: Krushin, the peasant Lyudmila, his wife Mazhenka, their daughter Micha, a rich peasant Gata, his wife Vasek, their son Enik, son of Miha from his first marriage Ketsal, village matchmaker Director of the circus Esmeralda, a comedian Indian, […]...
5. 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 […]...
6. 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 […]...
7. Summary Alexander Porfirievich Borodin ALEXANDER PORFIRYEVICH BORODIN 1833-1887 Borodin is an outstanding composer, a prominent chemist, a tireless scientist and public figure. His musical heritage is quantitatively small, but diverse in content. The composer’s interest in the heroic images of the Russian heroic epos was reflected in the opera and two symphonies, impressive with mighty power, with a grand […]...
8. 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 […]...
9. 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 […]...
10. 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 […]...
11. Summary Leos Janacek LEOSH YANACHEK 1854-1928 Janacek is an outstanding Czech composer, conductor, teacher, music critic and music and public figure. His art is marked by progressive aspiration, loyalty to humanistic ideals, folk traditions. In his works, closely related to the advanced Czech literature, he glorifies the common man, his spiritual strength, honesty and diligence, he flouts social […]...
12. 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 […]...
13. 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 […]...
14. 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 […]...
15. Summary Sergey Vasilievich Rachmaninov SERGEI VASILYEVICH RAHMANINOV 1873-1943 Rachmaninov – a remarkable composer, pianist and conductor – wrote a bright page in the history of the world musical culture. In five piano concertos, three symphonies, operas and cantatas, compositions for pianoforte and romances, unique features of his work are depicted: the severity of life conflicts, pathetics, soulful lyricism. Sergei […]...
16. 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 […]...
17. 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 […]...
18. 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 […]...
19. Summary Georgiy Illarionovich Mayboroda GEORGY ILLARIONOVICH MAYBORODA The genus. in 1913 Creativity of the prominent contemporary Ukrainian composer Georgy Mayboroda differs in its genre variety. He owns operas and symphonies, symphonic poems and cantatas, choirs, songs, romances. As the artist Mayboroda formed under the fruitful influence of the traditions of Russian and Ukrainian musical classics. The main feature of […]...
20. 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 […]...
21. 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 […]...
22. 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 […]...
23. 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 […]...
24. Summary Jules Massenet JULY MASSNET 1842-1912 Massenet played a significant role in the history of the French musical theater. Since the last third of the XIX century, after the death of Bizet, he took the leading position among French opera composers. Lyrically, mainly, Massne gravitating to an intimate, chamber interpretation of stories, focusing on the development of poetic […]...
25. 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 […]...
26. 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 […]...
27. 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 […]...
28. 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. […]...
29. Biography of Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven is a great German composer, pianist and conductor, representative of the musical direction “Viennese Classicism”. Early years Beethoven was born supposedly on December 16, 1770 in the city of Bonn in a musical family. Since childhood, he began to teach the game on the organ, harpsichord, violin, flute. For the first time […]...
30. 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 […]...
31. 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 […]...
32. Summary of Yirasek A Alois Jirasek, also referred to as Irasek (Czech Alois Jirasek, 1851-1930) is a Czech writer and public figure. He was born in Gronow. He worked as a school teacher. The author of a voluminous cycle of historical novels depicting the movement of the Hussites, the period of Austrian domination (“darkness”) and national revival; created a […]...
33. 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 […]...
34. 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 […]...
35. 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 […]...
36. Summary Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev SERGEI IVANOVICH TANEYEV 1856-1915 Taneyev is an outstanding Russian composer and music figure. In his work, the traditions of Russian classical music developed, and first of all Tchaikovsky Taneyev strove for art, imbued with philosophically significant ideas and a high ethical principle. In his numerous works of various genres, he appears as an artist-thinker, masterfully […]...
37. Summary “The Tragedy in Three Acts” During his life, Dvorak wrote not a few operas, but the most famous and loved by the viewer was the latter – “Mermaid”. The sea maiden of Undine, or, as it is called by the Slavs, the Rusalka, worried the imagination of artists before and after Dvorak. Her image was inspired by F. de la […]...
38. Biography of Prokofiev Sergei Prokofiev is a Russian composer, conductor, pianist, People’s Artist of the RSFSR, winner of six Stalin Prizes and Lenin Prize. One of the most important musicians of the twentieth century. Childhood and primary education Prokofiev Sergey Sergeevich was born April 11, 1891 in the village of Sontsovka Ekaterinoslav province. The love of music was […]...
39. Summary Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky MODEST PETROVICH MOUSSORGSKY 1839-1881 Mussorgsky is a great composer-realist, the creator of a brightly original innovative art. Artistic views of Mussorgsky formed under the influence of revolutionary democratic ideas of the 1860s. The composer saw his goal in a truthful depiction of the life of the oppressed people, in exposing the social monstrosities of the […]...
40. Summary Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein ANTON GRIGORIEVICH RUBINSTEIN 1829-1894 Rubinstein is a prominent figure in Russian music, a brilliant pianist, a talented and prolific composer. He wrote 15 operas, 5 oratories, 6 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, about 20 chamber-instrumental ensembles, 4 pianist sonatas, more than 160 songs and songs, and many works for pianoforte. Performing and public activities Rubinstein, especially […]...