The next group of rare Russian scores from the Sibley archive – again beautifully cleaned by Parag [and I’ve checked to make sure all the pages are included]!!
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Borozdin (Borosdine). Born 1879 - ? No further inofrmation known. Works held in Moscow State Library include the following piano pieces and some romances.
Borozdin wrote a series under one opus [Op 33] of seven sets of variations based on various Russian folksongs. We have nos. 3 – 7 complete.
Borosdine - Op 33 Variations faciles Nos. 3 - 7.pdf
Bustini A. AMENDED: Italian composer [Alessandro Bustini]...this work published by Jurgenson. Sibley had this work incorrectly classified as Russian, but mystery solved by Caprotti. Note the dedication to Modeste Tchaikovsky.
I'll leave and eventually transfer to the Italian composer's thread [MB].
Op 14 Trois Pieces [1. Nocturne 2. Ballade 3. Capriccio]
Bustini A - Op 14 Trois Pieces.pdf
Charmie N. No further information known, and unable to trace any further works at this stage.
Op 1 Variations
Chamie - Op 1 Variations.pdf
Yuly Dmitriyevich Engel’. Born 1868, Berdyansk: died 1927 Tel-Aviv. Music critic and composer. Graduated in 1890 from the law department of Kharkov University. Encouraged to study at the Moscow Conservatoire (1893-1897) on the advice of Tchaikovsky, and studied with Ippolitov-Ivanov and Taneyev. Was a writer for ‘
Russkiye vedomosti’ between 1897-1918, and helped to organise the People’s Conservatoire in Moscow (1906-10). In 1901 Engel edited and translated into Russian Riemann’s
Lexicon, contributing to over 800 entires on figures in Russian Music. He later lived in Berlin from 1922-24 and founded the Yuval Publishing House devoted to the publications of works by Jewish composers. He immigrated to Palestine in 1924, where he continued his research on Jewish music and taught at the Shulamit Conservatoie. As a composer and writer he was highly valued by his contemporaries, and is best know for his incidental music to Ansky’s ‘
Hadybbuk’ (1922) and for writing the first Jewish opera ‘
Esther’.
Two works from Engel [and I have a couple more to add eventually from my own collection].
Op 11 Sommer Skizzen [6 pieces]
Engel - Op 11 Sommer-Skizzen.pdf
Op 12 Trois Morceaux [1. Valse 2. Mazurka 3. Quasi-Mazurka]
Engel - Op 12 Trois Pieces.pdf
Aleksandr Alekseyevich Kartsev. Born 1883, Moscow: died 1953, same. Studied with Gliere, Yavorsky and Taneyev at the Moscow Conservatoire, plus was also a pupil of Juon in Berlin between 1907-08. Graduated in composition from Moscow Conservatoire in 1923. Worked as a music teacher in a number of educational establishments throughout Moscow, and from 1933-45 as an editor at Muzgiz.
Op 1 Deux Pieces
Kartzev - Op 1 Deux Pieces.pdf
Leokadiya Aleksandovna Kashperova. Born 1872, Lyubim in Yaroslavl district: died 1940, Moscow. Pianist, teacher and composer. Graduated from the St Petersburg Conservatoire – 1893 for piano, and 1895 in composition. Studied with Solov’yov and privately with Anton Rubinstein (1888-91). Concertized as a soloist and in a piano trio with Auer and Verzhbilovich, premiering some of Balakirev’s and Glazunov’s works. In 1918 she moved to Rostov-on-Don, where she taught at the conservatoire. Four years later she settled in Moscow.
Au Sein de la Nature [Six Pieces]
Kaschperova L - Au Sein de la Nature.pdf
Peter Abramovich Khvoshchinsky. Born ? died 1893. No further information known on this composer, which is a great shame since these pieces are worth investigation and performances
.
Op 7 Piano Sonata No. 1
Khvostchinsky - Op 7 Piano Sonata No.1.pdf
Op 8 Trois Morceaxu [1. Marzuka 2. Berceuse 3. Mazurka]
Khvostchinsky - Op 8 Trois Morceaux.pdf
Op 10 Six Morceaux
[1. Moment musical 2. Feuillet d’album 3. Prelude 4. Petite Valse 5. Prelude 6. Impromptu]
Khvostchinsky - Op 10 Six Morceaux.pdf
Op 13 Deux Preludes
Khvostchinsky - Op 13 Deux Preludes.pdf
More Russian rarities will be posted at the weekend.
Parag & Malcolm