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hidden Monuments of history and culture | Asafyev Boris Vladimirovich hidden Asafyev B. V. , (1884-1949) music theorist and composer | |
ASAFYEV Boris Vladimirovich (penname Igor Glebov) (1884, St. Petersburg - 1949), music theorist, composer, People"s Artist of the USSR (1946), member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1946) ... | | ASAFYEV Boris Vladimirovich (penname Igor Glebov) (1884, St. Petersburg - 1949), music theorist, composer, People"s Artist of the USSR (1946), member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1946). Asafyev graduated from the Faculty of History and Philosophy of St. Petersburg University (1908) and the Conservatory (1910). In 1910 he accepted an appointment as concertmaster of the Mariinsky Theatre Ballet, and concurrently wrote critical reviews for Music Journal and a number of other periodicals. In 1919-30 Asafyev worked in the Institute of the History of Arts, and co-operated with the Bolshoy Drama Theatre and Old St. Petersburg Society. In 1925 Asafyev was awarded professorship and began teaching at the Conservatory. One of the leading music theorists, he approached music art within a philosophic and socio-cultural context. In the 1930-50s he was also a celebrated composer, creating 28 ballets, 11 operas, 4 symphonies, numerous chamber music pieces and music for theatre performances. The State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre performances of The Flames of Paris (1932) and The Fountain of Bakhchisaray (1934) won broad recognition. Besides, the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre gave performances of his ballets Lost Illusion (1935), Partisans" Days (1937), and Christmas Eve (1938). Maly Opera and Ballet Theatre (see Mussorgsky Opera and Ballet Theatre) staged The Prisoner of the Caucasus (1938) and Ashik-Kerib (1940). In 1941-43 during the siege of Leningrad Asafyev wrote an essay series entitled Thoughts and Contemplations.” The chapter of the series entitled On Russian Painting was published in Leningrad and Moscow in 1966. In 1943 he moved to Moscow and in 1948 was elected Chairman of the Composers’ Union of the USSR. Asafyev was awarded the Stalin Prize (1943, 1948). He was born in the house at 139 Nevsky Prospect, and lived at 147 Nevsky Prospect, in 1914-17 - at 10 Mokhovaya Street, in 1922 - at 25 Konyushennaya Street, in 1933-43 - at 6 Truda Square (memorial plaque). References: Орлова Е. М. Б. В. Асафьев: Путь исследователя и публициста. Л., 1964. A. L. Porfiryeva.
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DUDINSKAYA Natalia Mikhailovna (1912-2003, St. Petersburg), ballet dancer, People's Artist of the USSR (1957), Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg (1998). Graduated from the Leningrad Choreography School under of A. Y. Vaganova in 1931 ... | | DUDINSKAYA Natalia Mikhailovna (1912-2003, St. Petersburg), ballet dancer, People's Artist of the USSR (1957), Honorary Citizen of St. Petersburg (1998). Graduated from the Leningrad Choreography School under of A. Y. Vaganova in 1931. That same year, she joined the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (today Mariinsky Theatre) as a soloist, dancing leading roles from the classical repertoire (Odette-Odile, Aurora, Giselle), then became an authority on the contemporary ballet repertoire, including The Flame of Paris (1932), Lost Illusions (1936), and Militsa (1947) by B. V. Asafyev. She took on virtuosic roles with heroic content, Laurencia in one of A. A. Krein's ballets (1939), Gayane (A. I. Khachaturyan's Gayane, 1942), Cinderella (in S. S. Prokofiev's Cinderella, 1946; Stalin Prize, 1947), Raimonda (in A. K. Glazunov's Raimonda; Stalin Prize, 1949), Girl-Bird (in F. Z. Yarullin's Surale, 1950; Stalin Prize, 1951), Pannochka (in V. P. Solovyev-Sedoy's Taras Bulba , 1955), and Sari (in K. Karaev's Path of Thunder, 1958). Dudinskaya worked with celebrated choreographers K. М. Sergeev, L. V. Yakobson, and B. А. Fenster, and was Sergeev's long-time dance partner. Dudinskaya managed to imbue her dancing with psychological intensity, emotional expressiveness, and exactitude. In 1951-78, she taught improvement classes, and tutored at the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. From 1964, she was the head dance instructor, and from 1995 Professor at the Leningrad Academic School of Choreography (see Academy of Russian Ballet), training 14 graduating classes. М. Kullik and U. V. Lopatkina were both Dudinskaya's students. Alongside with Sergeev, she choreographed a number of ballets for the School of Choreography: Seasons to A. K. Gazunov's music (1976), Beethoven's Appassionata (1978), R. Schuman's Carnival (1988), and others. She had also assisted Sergeev in reconstructing such classical ballets as Raimonda (1948), Swan Lake (1950), Sleeping Beauty (1952, 1989), as well as in choreographing Corsair for the Bolshoy Theatre in Moscow (1992). In 1989, a small planet was named after Dudinskaya. She was a laureate of the Golden Soffit Prize (1995) and the Golden Mask Theatre Prize (For Honour and Dignity, 2002). She lived at 11/2 Nevsky Prospect (memorial plaque installed), and was buried at Literatorskie Mostky. References: Кремшевская Г. Д. Наталия Дудинская. Л.; М., 1964; Головашенко Ю. Наталья Дудинская // Театр. 1968. №. 9. С. 60-68. Y. N. Kruzhnov.
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The composer B.V. Asafyev, who lived in the country house (24 Novaya Street) from 1926 until 1934), composed the music for his ballet "Bakhchisaraysky fontan" ("The Fountain of Bakhchisaray") in Detskoye Selo ... | | The composer B.V. Asafyev, who lived in the country house (24 Novaya Street) from 1926 until 1934), composed the music for his ballet "Bakhchisaraysky fontan" ("The Fountain of Bakhchisaray") in Detskoye Selo.
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