#russian classical music

[menandwomanofhistory]

Boris Tchaikovsky

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky (Russian, 1868–1945) Country Friends, 1912

[daweyt]

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from “Notes from the Underground”, published c. april 1864.

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Vladimir Fedorovich Ammon

Russian painter, academician of landscape painting of the Imperial Academy of Arts, member of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions.

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Du Lundi au Vendredi by Gwendoline 🎧

[g0ldengaze]

Happy shostakovich swag winter 🙏🙏

[jaeming29]

…this has to be the weirdest genshin related rabbit hole i’ve climbed down

And no, it’s not nsfw.

A while back, I made a post about the Commedia Dell’arte, which inspired the genshin’s fatui. Well, I just went down an even more niche and nerdy rabbit hole today, russian music.

I found a piece of semi-classical russian music called Shostakovich’s second waltz. If you listen to it, it VERY OBVIOUSLY is what inspired the music for fontaine. But here’s the thing: Shostakovich didn’t even make it. His friend Atovmyan did. But Atovmyan’s legacy is so eclipsed by Shostakovich, that Shostakovich got the credit. I can’t even find anything about the life of Atovmyan.

But HERE’S where things get crazy. Shostakovich was a movie composer that liked to work with Atovmyan. So, this waltz was written for a movie called “The First Echelon.” And The First Echelon was directed by a guy named MIKHAIL.

Coincidence? Probably, Mikhail a common russian name. But MAN is it weird.

Also, funny side note: This piece of music is so freaking confusing to find. It was not only a miscredited work, it is also mislabeled a lot as “Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2.” It’s actually the “Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1.”

[s0uvlakii]

dmitri shostakovich 1957

[figureskatingcostumes]

Mone Chiba's Dark Eyes costume at the 2023 Grand Prix de France and 2023 Autumn Classic International.

And with added sparkles on the bodice at the 2024 World Championsips:

(Sources: Wilma Alberti, Danielle Earl Photography, Phantom Kabocha, sponichitokyophoto and sno_owbal)

[gasparodasalo]

Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838) - Introduction and Russian Dance for Cello and Piano, Op. 113 No. 1, I. Introduction. Performed by Guido Larisch, cello, and Robert Hill, fortepiano, on period instruments.

[menandwomanofhistory]

Dmitri Shostakovich

[sixty-silver-wishes]

Shostakovich-Sollertinsky letter translations (Russian to English)

So, I finally finished formatting my translations of the Shostakovich-Sollertinsky letters from a few years ago! These are letters from Shostakovich to his close friend, the polymath and scholar Ivan Ivanovich Sollertinsky, from the late 1920s to 1943. They offer valuable insight on Shostakovich's opinions on subjects such as music, his personal life, and current events of the day.

The letters have been published in Russian and have also been translated and published in German; an official English translation does not exist as of posting this. I'm not a fluent Russian speaker and much of this was done with the help of a dictionary and the internet, but I believe I compiled a decent enough translation. I kinda had to rush the formatting towards the end, but it should be readable enough. Anyway, if anyone is interested, here it is!

For any Russian speakers who want to review my translations or would like to read the original letters, here is the PDF of the book.

[lesser-known-composers]

Alexander Borodin (1833–1887) - String Sextet in d minor

I. Allegro II. Andante

BIN CHAO, JORGE TEIXEIRA -violino

LU ZHENG, LEONOR BRAGA SANTOS -viola

VAROUJAN BARTIKIAN, MARCO PEREIRA -violoncelo

[wanderingmoonmen]

for my classical music heads

[daweyt]

“Life is given to me only once, and never will be again—I don't want to sit waiting for universal happiness. I want to live myself; otherwise it's better not to live at all.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, from “Crime and Punishment”, originally published c. 1866.

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Artist Mikhail Khokhlachev, known throughout the world as Michael Cheval 🇷🇺

Michael Cheval (Mikhail Khokhlachev) was born in Kotelnikovo, a small town in southern Russia. Growing up in an artistic family, his love of drawing was encouraged from early childhood by his father, Mikhail Khokhlachev, a self-taught artist and by his grandfather, Yuri Lipov, a professional artist and sculptor. His ability developed quickly and by three years old, he could already draw complex compositions.

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𝙵𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜 & 𝙵𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚜 - 𝙳𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚣 𝙺𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚕 𝚁𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚡 𝚋𝚢 𝙽/𝚊, 𝚁𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚊 🎧

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You can't depict great Art, Literature and Music without beauty.

You can't have beauty without truth.

You can't have truth without love.

You can't have love without God.

Throughtout history

Great literature, poetry, music, painting and theater have always aimed up. And you can't aim up without showing the darkside of humanity. Both sides need to be depicted in order for it to be effective.

No great art was propaganda. It wasn't overtly vulgar and spiteful against religion or any creed/organization in an act of shock value or destruction. Even the best punk songs imo aim towards self acceptance and love over hate and destruction.

If art is destructive it isn't ever memorable. Unless some liberal arts school teacher is using it to depict some propaganda against the patriarchy or something untrue.

Even though there is a place to show that through art. For example Shakespeare's King Lear and Hamlet both depict what happens when kings become corrupt and weak.

The artist is there to show truth and bring balance to an unstable world. Not to point fingers, laugh, cast out and scold another point of view.

The great artist knows when each side has gone too far and points out its wrongdoings through allegories, painting and music of chaos and order. The artist doesn't fence sit or boot lick, but tries to stabilize the uneven floor between the civil war of nature and nurture. Liberalism and conservatism.

No side truly wins because we need a balance of both sides on this earth.

We need liberal egalitarian concepts of peace just as much as we need protected borders, military stability and family structure.

Unfortunately, many people don't understand that.

Both sides fight.

That's why God created the artist.

To bridge the world together.