Alexander Scriabin - Alexander Scriabin Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (sometimes transliterated as Skryabin) (January 6, 1872 - April 27, 1915) was a Russian composer and pianist. Scriabin was born in Moscow. He studied the piano from an early age, taking lessons with Nikolay Zverev who was teaching Sergei Rachmaninov at the same time. He became a noted pianist. Scriabin also became interested in theosophy. Many of Scriabin's works are written for the piano, the earliest pieces resemble Frederic Chopin and include music in many forms that Chopin himself employed, such as the etude, the prelude and the mazurka. Scriabin's ten piano sonatas, however, are more original, employing very unusual harmonies and textures. The last five of these are written with no key signature and many passages in them can be.
Karol Szymanowski - for a few years at the end of the 1920s). He travelled widely, throughout Europe and to the USA. He died in a sanatorium in Lausanne. Szymanowski's was influenced by the music of Richard Strauss, Max Reger, Alexander Scriabin and the impressionism of Claude Debussy. He also drew influence from his countryman Frederic Chopin and Polish folk music, and like Chopin he wrote a number of mazurkas for piano (the mazurka being a Polish folk dance). Among Szymanowski's better known works are his two violin concertos, the three Myths for violin and piano, his Stabat Mater, his four symphonies (No. 3 with choir and vocal soloists, No. 4 with a solo piano), the ballet Harnasie and his operas, Hagith and King Roger. He also wrote a quantity of piano music and.
January 6 - the Musikverein (Vienna). 1900 - It is reported that millions are starving in India. 1900 - Boers attack Ladysmith - over 1000 people killed 1907 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome (Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo). 1912 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state. 1930 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City). 1929 - King Alexander of Yugoslavia suspends his country's constitution. 1931 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application. 1936 - Supreme Court of the United States rules the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional in the case United States v. Butler et al (297 U.S. 1); Porky Pig premieres 1942 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial.
Juan Maria Solare - Musiziert. Between July 1998 and June 1999 he held a scholarship of the Heinrich-Strobel Foundation (Baden-Baden). Since June 2001 until May 2002 he had a scholarship as "composer in residence" at the Künstlerhäuser (House of Artists) in Worpswede, Germany. For 2003 he received commissions from the CDMC (Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea, Madrid) and from the Stiftung Kunst & Kultur in NRW (Düsseldorf). As a pianist, his repertoire has four centers: classical music from the late Romanticism (such as Franz Liszt or Alexander Scriabin), contemporary classical (John Cage, Arnold Schoenberg), Argentine composers (including tango; Astor Piazzolla), and his own compositions - both as soloist and in different chamber music groups. See also: List of composers External Links.
Vyacheslav Molotov - Great Purges of the 1930s. Molotov (left) and Stalin at the Yalta Conference He was born in Kukarka, Russia, as Vyacheslav Scriabin (he was a relative of the composer Alexander Scriabin). Molotov in 1906 joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He was, along with Alexander Shlyapnikov, the senior Bolshevik in Petrograd at the time of the February Revolution as figures such as Lenin were still in exile. After what appears to be an odyssey through the landscape of geographic and political Russia including an important role in the October Revolution and editing the newspaper Pravda for a while, he started working under Joseph Stalin in 1922. At the eve of World War II, he became People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs (Foreign Minister). After British-French-Soviet talks held in August of 1939.
Etude - etude into a virtuoso showpiece for his chosen instrument, the piano. Chopin wrote 24 etudes in two sets of 12 etudes each, plus three more, for a total of 27. Other noted composers of etudes are Franz Liszt, Alexander Scriabin, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Etudes for other instruments, such as the violin, have been written as well..
1872 - of city, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and caused US$60 million in damage). November 26 - The San Francisco Evening Bulletin exposes one of the most notorious mining scandals in US history, The Great Diamond Hoax. November 29 - Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River. December 4 - The crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found by the British brig Dei Gratia (the ship was abandoned for 9 days but was only slightly damaged). December 21 - HMS Challenger sails from Portsmouth on the 4 year scientific expedition that would lay the foundation for the science of oceanography Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition Year in topic 1872 in literature 1872 in music Births January 6 - Alexander Scriabin, composer (+ 1915) January 31 -.
1915 - (+ 1999) January 31 - Thomas Merton, author (+ 1968) January 31 - Diana Rowden, SOE agent executed by the Nazis (+ 1944) February 2 - Abba Eban, diplomat (+ 2002) February 11 - Haakon Stotijn, Dutch oboist. February 11 - Mervyn Levy, American artist/critic. February 11 - Patrick Leigh Fermor, American author. February 12 - Lorne Greene, actor (+ 1987) February 23 - Paul Tibbets, pilot of the "Enola Gay", dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan February 28 - Zero Mostel, actor (+ 1977) March 8 - Tapio Rautavaara, athlete, actor, singer March 11 - Hans Peter Keller, writer (+ 1989) March 11 - Karl Krolow, lyricist and essayist (+ 1999) March 20 - Rudolf Kirchschläger, Austrian President (+ 2000) April 1 - Otto Wilhelm Fischer, actor April 4.
April 27 - (†1872) 1812 - Friedrich von Flowtow, composer (†1883) 1820 - Herbert Spencer, philosopher (†1903) 1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (†1885) 1878 - Frank Alvin Gotch, American Wrestler (†1917) 1888 - Florence La Badie, pioneer actress (†1917) 1894 - Nicolas Slonimsky, musicologist and composer (†1995) 1896 - Rogers Hornsby, Baseball Hall of Famer (†1963) 1900 - Martin Beheim-Schwarzenbach, narrator, lyricist and essayist (†1985) 1900 - Walter Lantz, cartoonist 1916 - Enos Slaughter, Baseball Hall of Famer (†2002) 1920 - Guido Cantelli, conductor (†1956) 1922 - Jack Klugman, actor 1927 - Coretta King, civil rights activist and widow of the Reverend Martin Luther King 1932 - Casey Kasem, American disc jockey 1932 - Anouk Aimée, actress 1932.
Synaesthesia - a more intense red as the pitch of a sound gets higher, or a smoother surface might make one taste a sweeter taste. Synaesthesia has influenced many artists in various fields, including poets Charles-Pierre Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud, and composer Alexander Scriabin. In his orchestral work, Prometheus: The Poem of Fire (1910), Scriabin included a part for a "clavier à lumières". This instrument was played like the piano, but produced colored light instead of sound. Alexander Scriabin may have been, but probably wasn't, a synesthete. The color system he described and which he used in pieces such as Prometheus, unlike most systems and synesthetic experience, line up with the circle of fifths, indicating that it was a thought out system that was also influenced by his theosophic readings, and based on.
Romantic music - the later symphonies of Mahler. The instrumental virtuoso also became more prominent. The violinist Niccolo Paganini was one of the musical stars of the early 19th century, his fame usually put down as much to his charisma as his technique. Franz Liszt was also a very popular virtuoso pianist. Typically in the 19th century, virtuosi such as these were more likely to attract an audience than some particular composer's music being on the program. Romanticism in music, in the end, represented a trend that made larger and larger demands on the orchestras playing it, on individual performers, and on the listeners. These trends tended to more sharply distinguish what we have come to call "classical music" from "popular music." Romanticism in the 20th century Romanticism survived into the 20th century, and.
Metropolitan Antony - being a member of the Russian Imperial Diplomatic Corps. His mother was the sister of Alexander Scriabin, the composer. During the Russian Revolution the family had to leave Persia, and in 1923 they settled in Paris where the future metropolitan was educated, graduating in physics, chemistry and biology, and taking his doctorate in medicine, at the University of Paris. In 1939, before leaving for the front as a surgeon in the French army, he secretly professed monastic vows in the Russian Orthodox Church. He was tonsured and received the name of Anthony in 1943. During the occupation of France by the Germanss he worked as a doctor and took part in the French Resistance. After the war he continued practising as a physician until 1948, when he was ordained to the.
Mystic chord - Mystic chord Composer and theosophist Alexander Scriabin's so called mystic chord, actually called the synthetic chord by Scriabin, consists of the pitch classes: C, F#, Bb, E, A, D. An augmented fourth, diminished fourth, augmented fourth, and two perfect fourths. It is a quartal hexachord. Scriabin used this chord in what George Perle calls a pre-serial manner, producing harmonys, chordss, and melodies. However, unlike the twelve tone technique to which Perle refers, Scriabin did not use his synthetic chord as an ordered set..
List of Russians - (1846 - 1920), jewelery designer Isaak Levitan (1860 - 1900), landscape painter Vera Ignat'evna Mukhina (1889 - 1953), sculptress Alexander O. Nikulin (1878 - 1945), painter Andrei Rublev (circa 1360 - 1430), painter Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov (1865 - 1911), painter Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (1776 - 1857), painter Ivan Yakovlevich Vishnyakov (1699 - 1761), painter Authors Andrey Bely (1880 - 1934), poet and author Isaak Babel (1894-1940), author Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), playwright and author Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870 - 1953), First Russian Nobel Prize Winner Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904), playwright, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, The Seagull Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881), Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment Ilya Gregoryevich Ehrenburg (1891 - 1947), novelist and WWII war correspondent Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852), author, Dead Souls Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812 -.
List of people by name: Sc-Sd - scholastic philosopher Scriabin, Alexander, (1872-1915), composer Scriabin, Alexander Nikolayevich, (1871-1915), composer and pianist Scruggs, Earl, (born 1924), bluegrass performer Scullard, Howard Hayes, (1903-1983), historian Scully-Power, Paul, astronaut Scully, Vin, (born 1927), baseball announcer Sculthorpe, Peter, composer Scylax of Caryanda, Greek explorer sent by the king of Persia to sail down the Indus.
List of classical music composers - From about 1820 to 1900. See also Romantic music. Adolphe-Charles Adam (1803 - 1856) Isaac Albéniz (1860 - 1909) Daniel François Esprit Auber (1782 - 1871) Francis Edward Bache (1833 - 1858) Michael William Balfe (1808 - 1870) Amy Beach (1867 - 1944) Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835) Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869) Franz Berwald (1796 - 1868) Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875) Arrigo Boito (1842-1918) Alexander Borodin (1833 - 1887) Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Max Bruch (1838 - 1920) Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896) Nobert Burgmüller (1810 - 1836) Ferruccio Busoni (1866 - 1924) Joseph Canteloube (1879 - 1857) Whitefield Chadwick (1854 - 1931) Gustave Charpentier (1860 - 1956) Pablo Casals Ernest Chausson (1855 - 1899) Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849) Carl Czerny (1791 - 1857) Léo Delibes (1836 - 1891).
List of uncategorized composers - David Foster Stephen Foster, (1826-1864) Alberto Franchetti Patrick Frye, III (born 1957) G Jacob Thune Hansen Gade Jacobus Gallus, (1550-1591) Pauline Garcia-Viardot, (1821-1910) Denis Gaultier, (died 1672) Edward German, (1862-1936) Don Carlo Gesualdo Luis Gianneo, (born 1897) Jean Gilbert, (born 1879) Mauro Giuliani Louis Glass Jackie Gleason, (1916-1987) Radovan Gobec, (born 1909) Alexander Godunov, (born 1949) Jani Golob, (born 1948) Antonio Carlos Gomes, (1836-1896) Michael Gordon Louis Moreau Gottschalk Glenn Gould, (1932-1982) Morton Gould, (1913-1996) Fernando Lopes Graça Enrique Granados, (1827-1916) Stephane Grappelli, (1908-1997) Alexander Grechaninov Adolph Green, (1914-2002) Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé Carlos Guastavino, (1912-2000) H Johan Halvorsen, (1864-1935) Marvin Hamlisch, (born 1944) Jan Hammer, (born 1948) Albert Hammond, (born 1942) W.C. Handy, (1873-1958) Howard Hansen, (born 1896) Lou Harrison, (1917-2003) John Hartford, (1937-2001) Hamilton Harty Johann A. Hasse, (died.
List of famous gay, lesbian or bisexual composers - Janis Ian J: Elton John K: Paula Kimper -- Jonathan King L: k.d. lang -- John Lennon -- Marilyn Lerner -- Annea Lockwood -- Chris Lowe M: Madonna -- Robert Maggio -- Gian Carlo Menotti -- George Michael -- Linda Montano -- Steven Morrissey N: Me'shell N'Degeocello -- Alwin Nikolais O: Sinead O'Connor -- Pauline Oliveros P: Harry Partch -- Thomas Pasatieri -- Daniel Pinkham -- Cole Porter -- Francis Poulenc R: Sun Ra -- Ned Rorem S: Camille Saint-Saëns -- Fred Schneider -- Alexander Scriabin -- Zola Shaulis -- Dame Ethel Smyth -- Jimmy Somerville -- Stephen Sondheim -- Michael Stipe -- Conrad Susa -- Sylvester -- Karol Maciej Szymanowski T: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Neil Tennant -- Virgil Thomson -- Nurit Tilles -- Michael Tippett -- 'Blue' Gene Tyranny.
Vasily Ilyich Safonov - educator, becoming Director of the Moscow Conservatory in 1889, teaching some of the best Russian composers, notably Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin and Nikolai Medtner. He resigned from the school in 1905 to direct orchestras across the world and perform as a pianist..
Khandi Alexander - Khandi Alexander Khandi Alexander (born September 4, 1957) is an American dancer and minor film and television actress. Born in New York and educated at Queensborough Community College, she appeared on Broadway and was Whitney Houston's choreographer from 1989 to 1992. Alexander concentrated on film and TV (NewsRadio, ER) roles since then..
