The Ballets Of Alexander Glazunov
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The Ballets Of Alexander Glazunov
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Author : Robert Ignatius Letellier
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2013-02-21
The Ballets Of Alexander Glazunov written by Robert Ignatius Letellier and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-21 with Music categories.
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865–1936), the Russian composer, is principally associated with his first ballet Raymonda, the apex of his cooperation with the great choreographer Marius Petipa, then in the last years of his illustrious career. Raymonda is still performed in Russia and intermittently in the West. Glazunov, a precocious musical talent from his childhood, was regarded as the inheritor of the Russian nationalist ideals. However, he soon turned to absolute forms of music, rather than the thematically inspired tone paintings so typical of the Mighty Handful. His symphonic compositions are nonetheless full of Russian folk allusion. His emotional world seems to have been centred in the atmosphere of the classical Russian ballet. The movements in his abstract orchestral scores seem to reflect a glamorous, glittering world. He was the composer of four masterful dance compositions: Scènes de Ballet, Op. 52 (1894), Raymonda, Op. 57 (1898), Les Ruses d’Amour, Op. 61 (1900), and The Seasons, Op. 67 (1900). All became major works in the sunset of the Imperial Ballet, and remain landmarks in the history of theatre music for the dance. Glazunov appears to have been a warm and genial man, a firm friend and modest about his considerable accomplishments. As a teacher he in turn exercised considerable influence on the younger generation through his composition classes at the St Petersburg Conservatory, where he also became director. His life was outwardly uneventful, but single-minded in pursuit of his musical ideals. He was full of honours when he died in Paris on 21 March 1936. The suite Scènes de Ballet, Opus 52 in 8 movements, was written in 1894, and published the following year, dedicated to the orchestra of the Russian Opera, St Petersburg. It was first performed at a concert of the Imperial Music Society in 1895, with the composer conducting from the manuscript score. Each section of this work is structured with great confidence, developed with a magisterial certainty, and defined in its own ideal musical character (Introduction, Marionnettes, Mazurka, Scherzo, Pas d’action, Danse orientale, Valse, Polonaise), and shows the composer’s instinctive feel for the dance and its various genres. In Raymonda, a romance tale of the Crusades, Glazunov provided a very considerable ballet score, conceived on the broadest scale for an extended scenario. Some of the scenes, and some of the melodies and tone colours of this ballet pay homage to the Tchaikovskian tradition. The story serves as the pretext for a series of divertissements, almost too profuse, intended to show off the virtuosity and special gifts of the famous soloists. Glazunov was inspired to compose agreeable music, always easy to listen to, sometimes rather bland in its melodic facility, but always showing the composer’s great mastery of form, harmony and orchestration. It misses the nobility of inner expressiveness and melodic urgency inherent in Tchaikovsky’s music. The act 2 finale especially achieves elegance of form and harmonic audacity, and reveals a firm contrapuntal technique. This work has always been able to stimulate the acting abilities of the great ballerinas. In Russia, where it is still danced, there was a revitalizing revival and production in 1900 directed by the choreographer Gorsky at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. After the October Revolution it was often staged, both at the Kirov in Leningrad and at the Bolshoi. The Seasons has no story as such, and unfolds in four scenes as an evocation of the yearly phases of the natural world. Each is represented by a number of episodes, some amorous, others idyllic, but all dominated by the natural cycle of winter sleep, spring awakening, summer blossoming, and autumn harvest, moving towards sleep again. This was Glazunov’s third ballet, the most important and successful of his works for the dance. As a pupil of Rimky-Korsakov, and heir to the Mighty Handful, he was by then the author of a very considerable body of compositions. The Seasons belongs to the pre-Diaghilev tradition of Russian ballet that found its culmination in Tchaikovsky’s three masterpieces in the genre. Glazunov shared something of Tchaikovsky’s passion for clarity and elegance, and an insistence on the primacy of melody. The fourth scene (Autumn) is best known for its fervent and rhapsodic bacchanale, a display of orchestral pyro-technics. The music is inventive, fresh, attractive, and beautifully scored throughout.
The Authorized Bolshoi Ballet Book Of Raymonda
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Author : I︠U︡riĭ Nikolaevich Grigorovich
language : en
Publisher: TFH Publications
Release Date : 1987
The Authorized Bolshoi Ballet Book Of Raymonda written by I︠U︡riĭ Nikolaevich Grigorovich and has been published by TFH Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Performing Arts categories.
Documents a new production (1984) of the ballet based upon the original (1898) choreographed by Marius Ivanovich Petipa, music composed by Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov.
Minor Ballet Composers
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Author : William E Studwell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1997-07-14
Minor Ballet Composers written by William E Studwell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-07-14 with Music categories.
While most music lovers are familiar with the famous scores of Tchaikovsky, Delibes, and Stravinsky, many other lesser-known composers also wrote for the ballet. Several of these composers wrote almost exclusively for the ballet--and all enriched the world of dance. Minor Ballet Composers presents biographical sketches of 66 underappreciated ballet
Glazunov Ballet Scenes
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Glazunov Ballet Scenes written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Chamber music categories.
The aim of this document is to stimulate interest in the double wind quintet through the introduction of a new arrangement for this genre. The work is entitled Glazunov Ballet Scenes, and is based on orchestral ballet music composed by Alexander Glazunov. This text also examines the need for further development of the repertoire for the double wind quintet. To better understand these needs, a brief survey of the history of chamber wind music is necessary. This will stress the important events that were crucial in the development of professional chamber wind ensembles, and influenced the establishment of the wind band medium as we are accustomed to it today. In addition, a variety of pedagogical applications for the double wind quintet will be highlighted, which will support the expansion of the repertoire as a vehicle for musical growth. The document continues with a description of the creation of the transcription Glazunov Ballet Scenes. Several challenges and important decisions are highlighted which were critical throughout the process. The project concludes with a summary of the need for further development of the repertoire for the double wind quintet, especially new and original works for the genre by young composers.
Seasons
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Author : Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Seasons written by Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with categories.
Raymonda Act Iii
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Author : Marius Petipa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Raymonda Act Iii written by Marius Petipa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Raymonda (Choreographic work : Lavrovskiĭ after Gorski and Petipa, M) categories.
The Seasons
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Author : Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
The Seasons written by Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with categories.
Raymonda Op 57
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Raymonda Op 57 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Ballets categories.
The Ballet Lover S Companion
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Author : Zoe Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-29
The Ballet Lover S Companion written by Zoe Anderson and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-29 with Performing Arts categories.
This engaging book is a welcome guide to the most successful and loved ballets seen on the stage today. Dance writer and critic Zoe Anderson focuses on 140 ballets, a core international repertory that encompasses works from the ethereal world of romantic ballet to the edgy, muscular works of modern choreographers. She provides a wealth of facts and insights, including information familiar only to dance world insiders, and considers such recent works as Alexei Ramansky's Shostakovich Trilogy and Christopher Wheeldon's The Winter's Tale as well as older ballets once forgotten but now returned to the repertory, such as Sylvia. To enhance enjoyment of each ballet, Anderson also offers tips on what to look for during a performance. Each chapter introduces a period of ballet history and provides an overview of innovations and advancement in the art form. In the individual entries that follow, Anderson includes essential facts about each ballet’s themes, plot, composers, choreographers, dance style, and music. The author also addresses the circumstances of each ballet’s creation and its effect in the theater, and she recounts anecdotes that illuminate performance history and reception. Reliable, accessible, and fully up to date, this book will delight anyone who attends the ballet, participates in ballet, or simply loves ballet and wants to know much more about it.
Music Of The Imperial Ballet In Tsarist Russia
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Author : Marc Rene Lombardino
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Music Of The Imperial Ballet In Tsarist Russia written by Marc Rene Lombardino and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Ballets categories.
Abstract: Ballet music is an important genre of the canon of Western Classical Music. Composers and choreographers have collaborated on large-scale productions since the sixteenth century, but it was in the late nineteenth century that the art of ballet rose to unprecedented heights with the work of Marius Petipa. Petipa's collaboration with specialist composers of ballet music had important consequences for the genre going into the twentieth century. As Petipa worked with these specialists, including Ludwig Minkus and Riccardo Drigo, the relationship of dance and music in ballet evolved from a hierarchical relationship (dance over music) to a more equal pairing. This evolution correlates to the changing cultural and political tides of St. Petersburg from the Great Reforms in the 1860s to the October Revolution in 1905. In the 1890s and early 1900s, Petipa collaborated with more established Russian composers, including Peter I. Tchaikovsky, Alexander K. Glazunov, and Arseny N. Koreshchenko. This project considers several ballets by these composers, analyzing various Adagio movements from these works to show how ballet composing was approached first by ballet specialists and subsequently by symphonic composers. These dances are examined within the context of the Grand Ballets they come from as well as from a cultural and historical perspective.