[러시아]Anton Arensky[안톤 아렌스키]

 

Anton Arensky

 

 

(12 July [O.S. 30 June] 1861 – 25 February [O.S. 12 February] 1906)

, was a Russian composer of Romantic classical music, a pianist and a professor of music.

 

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림스키코르사코프의 제자였지만 차이코프스키에 보다 가까워 서정적이고 애조 띤 음악을 많이 작곡했다. 3편의 오페라 가운데 제일 먼저 작곡한 〈볼가 강 위의 꿈 A Dream on the Volga〉(1892, 모스크바)만이 성공적이었다.

피아노 3중주와 현악 4중주 A단조는 그의 작품 가운데 최고의 것들이다. 100곡이 넘는 피아노곡들 중에는 2대의 피아노를 위한 4개의 모음곡이 포함되어 있다. 모스크바에서 지휘했고, 이외에도 1882~95년 모스크바 음악원에서 가르쳤으며 1895~1901년 상트페테르부르크에 있는 황실 교회의 지휘자로 있었다.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biography

Arensky was born in a music-loving, affluent family in Novgorod, Russia. He was musically precocious and had composed a number of songs and piano pieces by the age of nine. With his mother and father, he moved to Saint Petersburg in 1879, after which he studied composition at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

 

After graduating from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1882, Arensky became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Among his students there were Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Gretchaninov.^[1]

 

In 1895 Arensky returned to Saint Petersburg as the director of the Imperial Choir, a post for which he had been recommended by Mily Balakirev. He retired from this position in 1901, living off a comfortable pension and spending his remaining time as a pianist, conductor, and composer.

 

Arensky died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium in Perkjärvi, Finland at the age of 44. While very little is known about his private life, Rimsky-Korsakov alleges that drinking and gambling undermined his health.^[2]

The Antarctic Arensky Glacier was named after him.

Music

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was the greatest influence on Arensky's musical compositions. Indeed, Rimsky-Korsakov said, "In his youth Arensky did not escape some influence from me; later the influence came from Tchaikovsky. He will quickly be forgotten." The perception that he lacked a distinctive personal style contributed to long-term neglect of his music, though in recent years a large number of his compositions have been recorded. Especially popular are the Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky for string orchestra, Op. 35a - arranged from the slow movement of Arensky's 2nd string quartet, and based on one of Tchaikovsky's Songs for Children, Op. 54.

 

Arensky was perhaps at his best in chamber music, in which genre he wrote two string quartets,

two piano trios, and a piano quintet.

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