Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail Mikhailovich

Born in 1859. Music education in the St. Petersburg Conservatory (1875 - 82); pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov. He was professor of harmony, orchestration and free composition at the Moscow Conservatory, now director of. Several years spent in Tiflis, where he studied music Caucasian tribes, especially the Georgians, the result of which was his pamphlet, "The Georgian folk song and its present state" (p. 1895) and dramatically marked the eastern flavor in his music. Posted by opera: "Ruth", "Azra", "Asya" - on the plot IS. Turgenev (Moscow, 1900), "Treason," the libretto of Prince Sumbatov (M., 1892, St. Petersburg., 1914). The first two and the latter have oriental flavor, enough, however, conditional and not ripe. Features operas Ippolitova: noble taste, a healthy balance, sincerity of expression, lack of pursuit of external effects, pretentiousness, refinement, artificiality. Clear and simple in texture, they sound good, but a large scale, the imagination and depth in them not; apparent strong external influences (Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Borodin). Other works of his: I. For Orchestra: Overture on Russian themes "Yar Hop", a symphonic scherzo, Suite "Caucasian Sketches" and "Iberia"; Sinfonietta (remake for orchestra Violin Sonata); II. For chamber ensemble: piano and string quartet; III. Vocal music with the orchestra: "The Coronation Cantata"; "Five typical images" for chorus and orchestra, the cantata in memory of Pushkin, Gogol ( "Songs DULCIMER-PLAYER") Zhukovsky; IV, . 2 harps and pipes; 15 children's songs; V,
. 70 songs, duets and 9. VI. Music to play in the historical. Goncharova Ermak Timofeevich ". As a music theorist, Ippolitov issued the "doctrine of chords, their construction and resolution" (Moscow, 1897).