Ivanov-Boretzky, Mikhail Vladimirovich
Ivanov-Boretzky, Mikhail Vladimirovich
Ivanov-Boretzky, Mikhail Vladimirovich, Russian musicologist and composer; b. Moscow, June 16, 1874; d. there, April 1, 1936. He studied jurisprudence at the Univ. of Moscow, graduating in 1896, and at the same time took music lessons. In 1898 he went to St. Petersburg and became a student of composition of Rimsky-Korsakov. From 1921 to 1936 he taught at the Moscow Cons. His music was mainly imitative of Rimsky-Korsakov’s works. He wrote the operas Adolfina (Moscow, Dec. 10, 1908) and The Witch (Moscow, Aug. 14, 1918), Sym., piano music, choruses, and songs. His importance to Russian music, however, lies in his writings. He publ. monographs on Palestrina, Handel, Schumann, Mendelssohn, and Beethoven; also a useful anthology of music history, with a synoptic table of 18th-century music (Moscow, 1934). A collection of his articles was publ. in Moscow in 1972.
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