Aleksey Ivanovich Kandinsky
Aleksey Ivanovich Kandinsky (24 February 1918 – 4 October 2000) was a Soviet musicologist who is known for his writings on contemporary Russian musical life and Russian music of the 19th and early 20th centuries. In addition to writing a biography on Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, he penned seminal writings on the works of Mily Balakirev, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. In 1969 he was named a Meritorious Artist of the Russian Federation.[1][2]
Career
From 1935 to 1939 he studied at the Ippolitov-Ivanov College of Music in Moscow where he was a pupil of Vasily Nikolayevich Argamakov. After serving in the Russian Army during World War II, he pursued graduate music studies under Yury Keldïsh at the Moscow Conservatory where he earned a master's degree in 1948 and a Doctorate in 1956. His doctoral dissertation was on the operas of Rimsky-Korsakov.[1]
After earning his master's degree, Kandinsky became a lecturer at the Moscow Conservatory in 1948. He became a full professor there in 1958 and served as the head of the music history department at the Moscow Conservatory from 1959 until 1992.[1]
Sources
- ^ a b c *Yelena Sorokina. "Kandinsky, Aleksey Ivanovich", Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed October 11, 2015), (subscription access) Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Кандинский Алексей Иванович" (in Russian). Moscow Conservatory. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
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- The Blue Rider (1903)
- Das Bunte Leben (1907)
- Landscape with Red Spots (1913)
- Composition VI (1913)
- Composition VII (1913)
- Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons) (1911–1913)
- Ein Zentrum (A Centre) (1922)
- Auf Weiss II (Sur blanc II) (1923)
- Three Elements (1925)
- Upward (1929)
- Composition X (1939)
- The Yellow Sound (1912)
- Aleksey Ivanovich Kandinsky (grandson)
- Gabriele Münter (partner)
- Neue Künstlervereinigung München
- Der Blaue Reiter
- Institute of Artistic Culture
- Bibliothèque Kandinsky
- Kandinsky Prize
- Wassily Chair