Elegie by Dobroven (1917)
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 11:28 am
Elegy composed by Isay Dobroven, dedicated to Olga Aleksandrovna Semenova.
Moscow edition by P. Jurgenson (number 37163), release between February and October 1917.
Elegy published in the tragic "failure" between the two russian revolutions of 1917. Lev Kunin's epigraph accurately conveys the character and the music and the atmosphere of the time:
If the room is dim suites,
And languishing sobs piano
I feel so sad, so painful, so sorry ...
Tears of happiness, if I want that.
Isay Aleksandrovich Dobroven (original name is Itzchok Barabeychik) - Russian pianist (born in Nizny Novgorod) of revolutionary times - known historical episode from the life of Lenin: the writer Maxim Gorky, taking in the party with Lenin, and invited his old friend, the musician; Dobroven played them Chopin and Beethoven. This case Gorky later described in his literary essay "B. I. Lenin ":
One evening, in Moscow, in the apartment of E. P. Peshkova, Lenin, listening
Beethoven sonatas played by Isai Dobroven, said:
- I know nothing better «Appassionata», ready to listen to it every day.
Amazing, superhuman music. I have always been proud, perhaps naive, child, I think: that's what miracles can make people - and, squinting, grinning, he added sadly: - But often listen to music I can not get on your nerves, you want sweet nothings to say and stroke on the heads of people who, living in a filthy hell, can create such beauty. A pat on the back today, no one can be - arm bite, and ought to hit on the head, beat ruthlessly, although we would ideally against any violence against people. Hmm - hellishly difficult position.
In the Soviet film "Appassionata", filmed in 1963 based on these events, Lenin (Actor Boris Smirnov), listening to the Dobroven's playing (actor-pianist Rudolf Kerer), mentally delivers stunning text, arguing with Gerbert Wells science fiction:
" No, Mr. Wells, the future - it's not a symphony of horror and gloom, the future - is Beethoven! Through struggle and suffering - to the joy. How true! Of course, the future - this is not a war of the worlds, not battle predators from the planet Mars. The near future - it is the cleansing fire of the liberation movement, the light in Africa, India, China, all over the world. And, of course, of course - Human ... What a giant Beethoven! And what a challenge - music strike sparks from the heart! " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE80aVH1YXw
Many years later Dobroven somehow wrote in his memoirs, that night played Pathetique Sonata. However, it is doubtful that Maxim Gorky has mixed names (essay was written just a few years later). More likely forgetfulness of Dobroven - because by the time it passed memories for decades.
See this item to: https://www.starinnye-noty.ru/%D1%80%D1 ... %B9%D0%BD/
Moscow edition by P. Jurgenson (number 37163), release between February and October 1917.
Elegy published in the tragic "failure" between the two russian revolutions of 1917. Lev Kunin's epigraph accurately conveys the character and the music and the atmosphere of the time:
If the room is dim suites,
And languishing sobs piano
I feel so sad, so painful, so sorry ...
Tears of happiness, if I want that.
Isay Aleksandrovich Dobroven (original name is Itzchok Barabeychik) - Russian pianist (born in Nizny Novgorod) of revolutionary times - known historical episode from the life of Lenin: the writer Maxim Gorky, taking in the party with Lenin, and invited his old friend, the musician; Dobroven played them Chopin and Beethoven. This case Gorky later described in his literary essay "B. I. Lenin ":
One evening, in Moscow, in the apartment of E. P. Peshkova, Lenin, listening
Beethoven sonatas played by Isai Dobroven, said:
- I know nothing better «Appassionata», ready to listen to it every day.
Amazing, superhuman music. I have always been proud, perhaps naive, child, I think: that's what miracles can make people - and, squinting, grinning, he added sadly: - But often listen to music I can not get on your nerves, you want sweet nothings to say and stroke on the heads of people who, living in a filthy hell, can create such beauty. A pat on the back today, no one can be - arm bite, and ought to hit on the head, beat ruthlessly, although we would ideally against any violence against people. Hmm - hellishly difficult position.
In the Soviet film "Appassionata", filmed in 1963 based on these events, Lenin (Actor Boris Smirnov), listening to the Dobroven's playing (actor-pianist Rudolf Kerer), mentally delivers stunning text, arguing with Gerbert Wells science fiction:
" No, Mr. Wells, the future - it's not a symphony of horror and gloom, the future - is Beethoven! Through struggle and suffering - to the joy. How true! Of course, the future - this is not a war of the worlds, not battle predators from the planet Mars. The near future - it is the cleansing fire of the liberation movement, the light in Africa, India, China, all over the world. And, of course, of course - Human ... What a giant Beethoven! And what a challenge - music strike sparks from the heart! " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE80aVH1YXw
Many years later Dobroven somehow wrote in his memoirs, that night played Pathetique Sonata. However, it is doubtful that Maxim Gorky has mixed names (essay was written just a few years later). More likely forgetfulness of Dobroven - because by the time it passed memories for decades.
See this item to: https://www.starinnye-noty.ru/%D1%80%D1 ... %B9%D0%BD/