Dmitry Bortniansky

Dmitry Bortniansky
Дмитрий Бортнянский
Portrait by Mikhail Belsky (1788)
Born
Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky

(1751-10-28)28 October 1751
Died10 October 1825(1825-10-10) (aged 73)
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
EraClassical

Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky[1][2][n 1] (28 October 1751 – 10 October [O.S. 28 September] 1825) was a Russian Imperial composer[3] of Ukrainian Cossack origin.[4] He was also a harpsichordist and conductor who served at the court of Catherine the Great. Bortniansky was critical to the musical history of both Russia and Ukraine, with both nations claiming him as their own.[5][6]

Bortniansky, who has been compared to Palestrina,[7] is known today for his liturgical works and prolific contributions to the genre of choral concertos.[8] He was one of the "Golden Three" of his era, alongside Artemy Vedel and Maxim Berezovsky.[9][6] Bortniansky was so popular in the Russian Empire that his figure was represented in 1862 in the bronze monument of the Millennium of Russia in the Novgorod Kremlin. He composed in many different musical styles, including choral compositions in French, Italian, Latin, German, and Church Slavonic.

  1. ^ Ritzarev, Marina: Eighteenth-Century Russian Music. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. P. 105.
  2. ^ The Cambridge History of Music
  3. ^ *Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky (The Columbia Encyclopedia)
  4. ^ * Katchanovski, Ivan; Zenon E., Kohut; Bohdan Y., Nebesio; Myroslav, Yurkevich (2013). Historical Dictionary of Ukraine. Scarecrow Press. p. 386. ISBN 9780810878471.
  5. ^ Kuzma, Marika (1996). "Bortniansky à la Bortniansky: An Examination of the Sources of Dmitry Bortniansky's Choral Concertos". The Journal of Musicology. 14 (2): 183–212. doi:10.2307/763922. ISSN 0277-9269. JSTOR 763922.
  6. ^ a b Ukraine's and Russia's tangled history leads to musical conundrum hourclassical.org 2022
  7. ^ Rzhevsky, Nicholas: The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture. Cambridge 1998. P. 239. books.google.com
  8. ^ Morozan, Vladimir (2013). "Russian Choral Repertoire". In Di Grazia, Donna M (ed.). Nineteenth-Century Choral Music. Routledge. p. 437. ISBN 9781136294099.
  9. ^ The Golden Three BBC 21 August 2011


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