Yuri Sakhnovsky
Yuri Sergeevich Sakhnovsky (Russian: Юрий Серге́евич Сахновский) (1866–1930) was a Russian composer, conductor and music critic.[1]
Sakhnovsky came from a well-off family and was known as a "bon vivant (he weighed 260.lbs) handsome, brilliant and wealthy".[2]
Sakhnovsky studied chant with Stepan Vasilevich Smolensky, to whom Sergei Rachmaninoff dedicated his Vespers, though Sakhnovsky later turned to a more "lush" style of choral writing.[3] While a student Sakhnovsky took in his eight-year younger fellow student Rachmaninoff during the difficult winter when it seemed he was suffering from malaria.
In later life Sakhnovsky was active more as a critic than a composer. Particularly notorious were his attacks on Alexander Scriabin's music as "decadent" from 1911-1914.
His song "The Blacksmith" was recorded by Maxim Mikhailov and his song "The Clock" was recorded by Vladimir Rosing.
References and Sources
- ↑ ГЦММК, ф. 82, 838 ед. хр., 1889-1930.
- ↑ Bowers, Faubion. Scriabin, a biography: p. 254.
- ↑ Strimple, Nick. Choral Music in the Twentieth Century: p. 141.
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- Strimple, Nick (2003). Choral Music in the Twentieth Century. Amadeus. ISBN 978-1-57467-074-5.
