Pianoman wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 5:47 pm
I've just found this thread. great!
I'll move my last post to here:
I can't find anything about this "Karchmareff" guy...any help?
I have the name of one piano piece by him: "Fairy-Tale".
Thanks.
Pianoman
That is the European version of his name, its actually is Korchmaryov.
Klimenty Arkad’yevich Korchmaryov. Born 1899, Verkhnedneprovsk [now Dnepropetrovsk district]: died 1958, Moscow. Composer and pianist.
Graduated in 1919 from the Odesa Conservatoire after studies in composition and piano [he studied with Biber and Malishevsky].
From 1919 he lived periodically in Turkmenia, where he collected over 200 folksongs and composed the first Turkmenian national ballet ‘The Merry Deceiver’. From 1921-23 he taught at the Dnepropetrovsk Conservatoire and concertized through the area. From 1923 he lived in Moscow. His students include Yorish.
Piano works include:
Conte [Fairytale-Legend] (1916)
Trois Morceaux (1918 -19)
1. Chanson printaniere
2. Improvisation
3. Clarete
Prelude for the Left hand (1922)
Piano Concerto (1924)
‘Revolutionary Carnival’ Fantastic Variations based on the theme of the French song ‘Carmagnole’ (1924)
Velikaya skorb’ [Great Sorrow] (1926)
Evreiskiy prazdnik [Jewish Holidays] (1926)
‘The Life and the Conditions of the Peoples of the USSR’ Suite (1926)
Pieces from the opera ‘Ivan the Soldier’ (1925-27)
1. Coronation Procession of the Tsar
2. Scherzo
3. Procession of the Nobles
American [inspired by the ragtime of Joplin and Roll Morton] (1928)
‘From the exhibition of AKhRR (Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia)’ - Two Pieces
1. Round and about in Neskuchnom’s Garden
2. Kuraishchik [Bashir herdsman]
Search Pianophilia on that spelling, but if not then I have: Prelude (LH), Trois Morceaux, Fariytale-Legend, Violin Sonata, Opera 'Ten Days that Shock the World'. Let me know if you want to see any of these ?
Malcolm