Nikolai Lopatnikoff (Russian, Николай Львович Лопатников; born 16 March 1903 in Tallinn - 7 October 1976 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was a Russian-American composer, music teacher and university lecturer. He composed some works of neoclassical music. These pieces featured fast, furious Allegro molto that included in some cases snare drumming and also soft cello music. These style alternate fast and furious with quiet and solemn, legato strings giving way to a quiet passage that ends with a loud drum.[1]
Lopatnikoff studied music theory and piano at the Conservatory of St. Petersburg, until he fled the Russian Revolution with his family in 1917, landing in Helsinki, Finland. He continued his studies at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki until 1920.
By 1921 his family had settled in Heidelberg, Germany where he began studying engineering at the University of Karlsruhe (Technischen Hochschule Karlsruhe), graduating in 1927. At the same time he was studying composition with Ernst Toch, Hermann Grabner and Willi Rehberg at the conservatory in Mannheim (Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim) and also in Berlin.
During this time, he composed the Piano Concerto No. 1 Op. 5, the 2nd Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 15 and Symphony No. 1, Op. 12. This symphony was performed by many orchestras in Europe and the USA and in 1932 by the Philadelphia Orchestra played it on tour. For the "German Chamber Music Baden-Baden 1927", a follow-up event of the Donaueschingen Music Days 1926, he composed as well as George Antheil pieces for mechanical piano "Welte-Mignon". Aaron Copland, who heard this performance on 16 July 1927, acquainted Sergei Koussevitzky aware of it and so initiated a contact that would be decisive for Lopatnikoff's future. Koussevitzky engaged Lopatnikoff to orchestrate the pieces and offered cooperation. As a result, a long-standing connection between the two came about, which led to the premier of numerous Lopatnikoff works by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Americaedit
After working in the 1930s in Berlin, and beginning 1936 in London, mainly as a composer, he emigrated to the United States in 1939. He served as a professor of composition at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Connecticut, the Westchester Conservatory of Music in White Plains, New York and ultimately at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, now called Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1944 he became an American citizen. He taught music theory and composition at Carnegie Mellon until his retirement in 1969. He died at his home in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh in 1976.[2] He and his wife, poet Sara Henderson Hay, are buried at Pittsburgh's Homewood Cemetery.[3]
His archive is located in the Library of Congress.[4]
Worksedit
Four Little Piano Pieces, Op. 1
Prelude and Fugue, Op. 2
Prelude to a Drama for Large Orchestra, Op. 3 (ca. 1922)
First Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C major, Op. 5a, premiered in Karlsruhe in 1927[5]
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 5b
Deuxième Quatuor, Quartet No. 2, Op. 6
Deuxième Quatuor en ut pour deux Violons, Alto et Violoncelle, Op. 6a; Leipzig: MP Belaieff 1933
Nanette Kaplan Solomon: The solo piano music of Nikolai Lopatnikoff: 1903 - 1976. Univ. Microfilms Internat., Ann Arbor, MI. Boston Univ., Diss. 1987.
External linksedit
Nikolai Lopatnikoff Collection, Library of Congress
Referencesedit
^Tobin, R. James (2014). Neoclassical Music in America: Voices of Clarity and Restraint. Rowman and Littlefield. p. 222. ISBN978-0-8108-8440-3. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
^"Composer Nikolai Lopatnikoff Dies Here at 73". Obituaries. The Pittsburgh Press. 8 October 1976. p. 14.
^"[untitled]". The Homewood Cemetery Historical Fund. 28 March 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
^"Nikolai Lopatnikoff Collection, 1916-1979". Washington, DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
^"Karlsruher Kunstbericht". Freiburger Zeitung. 23 February 1927. p. 2.
January 01, 1970
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Nikolai Lopatnikoff Russian Nikolaj Lvovich Lopatnikov born 16 March 1903 in Tallinn 7 October 1976 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania was a Russian American composer music teacher and university lecturer He composed some works of neoclassical music These pieces featured fast furious Allegro molto that included in some cases snare drumming and also soft cello music These style alternate fast and furious with quiet and solemn legato strings giving way to a quiet passage that ends with a loud drum 1 Contents 1 Life 1 1 Europe 1 2 America 2 Works 2 1 Works without opus number 3 Further reading 4 External links 5 ReferencesLife editEurope edit This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed March 2022 Learn how and when to remove this message Lopatnikoff studied music theory and piano at the Conservatory of St Petersburg until he fled the Russian Revolution with his family in 1917 landing in Helsinki Finland He continued his studies at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki until 1920 By 1921 his family had settled in Heidelberg Germany where he began studying engineering at the University of Karlsruhe Technischen Hochschule Karlsruhe graduating in 1927 At the same time he was studying composition with Ernst Toch Hermann Grabner and Willi Rehberg at the conservatory in Mannheim Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim and also in Berlin During this time he composed the Piano Concerto No 1 Op 5 the 2nd Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Op 15 and Symphony No 1 Op 12 This symphony was performed by many orchestras in Europe and the USA and in 1932 by the Philadelphia Orchestra played it on tour For the German Chamber Music Baden Baden 1927 a follow up event of the Donaueschingen Music Days 1926 he composed as well as George Antheil pieces for mechanical piano Welte Mignon Aaron Copland who heard this performance on 16 July 1927 acquainted Sergei Koussevitzky aware of it and so initiated a contact that would be decisive for Lopatnikoff s future Koussevitzky engaged Lopatnikoff to orchestrate the pieces and offered cooperation As a result a long standing connection between the two came about which led to the premier of numerous Lopatnikoff works by the Boston Symphony Orchestra America edit After working in the 1930s in Berlin and beginning 1936 in London mainly as a composer he emigrated to the United States in 1939 He served as a professor of composition at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford Connecticut the Westchester Conservatory of Music in White Plains New York and ultimately at the Carnegie Institute of Technology now called Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania In 1944 he became an American citizen He taught music theory and composition at Carnegie Mellon until his retirement in 1969 He died at his home in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh in 1976 2 He and his wife poet Sara Henderson Hay are buried at Pittsburgh s Homewood Cemetery 3 His archive is located in the Library of Congress 4 Works editFour Little Piano Pieces Op 1 Prelude and Fugue Op 2 Prelude to a Drama for Large Orchestra Op 3 ca 1922 First Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C major Op 5a premiered in Karlsruhe in 1927 5 Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Op 5b Deuxieme Quatuor Quartet No 2 Op 6 Deuxieme Quatuor en ut pour deux Violons Alto et Violoncelle Op 6a Leipzig MP Belaieff 1933 Sonatine pour piano Op 7 1928 Paris Edition Russe de Musique 1928 Duo for Violin and Cello Op 8 Berlin Edition Russe de Musique Sonata for violin piano et tambour militaire Op 9 Berlin Edition Russe de Musique 1928 Introduction et Scherzo for orchestra Op 10 Paris Edition Russe de Musique Sonate pour Violoncelle et Piano Sonata for cello and piano Op 11 Paris Edition Russe de Musique Symphony No 1 Op 12 Mainz Schott Deux Danses ironiques pour piano Op 13 Paris Edition Russe de Musique Second Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Op 15 My parents dedicated Mainz Schott 1950 5 contrasts for Piano Five Contrasts Op 16 Mainz Schott 1950 3 Pieces for Violin and Piano Three Pieces for Violin and Piano Op 17 Mainz Schott oJ Dialogues Five Pieces for Piano Op 18 1934 Mainz Schott undated Danton opera in three acts Op 20 by Georg Buchner Danton Suite Op 21 Variations for Piano Variations for Piano Op 22 Mainz Schott 1950 Madchenlied Abendfrieden Evening transition Good night I noticed In April Piano Trio Trio en la mineur pour piano violin and cello Op 23 Symphony No 2 Op 24 Violin Concerto Op 26 New York Associated Music Publishers 1944 Sinfonietta Op 27 New York Associated Music Publishers 1949 Opus sinfonicum for orchestra Op 28 New York Leeds Music Corporation 1951 Sonata for Piano No 1 in E Major Op 29 about 1943 New York Associated Music Publishers 1946 Concertino for Orchestra Op 30 New York Leeds Music Corporation 1953 Variations and Epilogue for violin and cello Op 31 about 1946 New York Edward B Marks Music Corporation 1948 Variations and Epilogue for Cello and Orchestra Op 31a Sonata No 2 for violin and piano Op 32 Concerto for 2 Pianos Op 33 New York Leeds Music Corporation 1953 Divertimento for Orchestra Op 34 New York Leeds Music Corporation 1954 Sonata for Violin and Piano No 2 Op 32 New York Leeds Music Corporation 1951 Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra Op 33 1949 Symphony No 3 Op 35 New York Leeds Music Corporation 1951 Quartet No 3 for Strings Op 36 Intervals 7 studies for piano Op 37 New York Leeds Music Corporation 1957 Variazioni concertanti op 38 for orchestra New York Leeds Music Corporation 1963 Music for orchestra Op 39 New York Leeds Music Corporation 1960 Music for Band Op 39a Arranged by William A Schaefer from the composer s Op 39 Festival Overture Op 40 New York Leeds Music Corporation 1965 Concerto for Wind Symphony Orchestra Op 41 Fantasia Concertante for violin and pianio Op 42 1962 New York MCA Music 1967 Concerto for Orchestra Op 43 circa 1964 New York CF Peters Corporation 1964 Divertimento da camera for flute oboe clarinet bassoon horn trumpet violin cello percussion and piano Op 44 Partita concertante for chamber orchestra Op 45 Symphony No 4 Op 46 Works without opus number edit Arabesque for two pianos four hands about 1948 New York Associated Music Publishers 1948 Arabesque for cello or bassoon and piano 1950 New York Leeds Music Corporation 1950 Arietta for violin and piano New York G Schirmer 1943 CHASE for unidentified treble instrument and piano Dance piece for piano edited by Isadore Freed 1956 Dance piece for piano Bryn Mawr PA Theodore Presser Co 1956 Eksprompt Impromptu and Prelude for piano solo Elegietta for cello and piano 1934 Mainz Schott Gavotte for piano solo Paris Les Editions de la Sirene Musicale 1929 Melting Pot ballet in six scenes Sinfonietta for chamber orchestra ca 1949 New York Music Press 1947 Time is Infinite Movement for Three Voices 1947 Toccata for piano original composition for mechanical piano Welte Mignon 1927 Romans Romance for voice and piano 1923 on a text by Akhmatova Karlsruhe 1931 Romans Romance for voice and piano 1924 on a text by Tiucher Scherzo original composition for mechanical piano Welte Mignon 1927 Variations and Epilogue for cello and pianoFurther reading editNikolai Lopatnikoff Forecast and Review New Life in Berlin In Modern Music VI 4 1929 Fred K Prieberg Lexikon der Neuen Musik Freiburg Alber Verlag 1958 S 259 f Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart MGG Band 8 S 1194 1 Auflg Kassel 1965 dort angegebenes Geburtsdatum ist falsch Nanette Kaplan Solomon The solo piano music of Nikolai Lopatnikoff 1903 1976 Univ Microfilms Internat Ann Arbor MI Boston Univ Diss 1987 External links editNikolai Lopatnikoff Collection Library of CongressReferences edit Tobin R James 2014 Neoclassical Music in America Voices of Clarity and Restraint Rowman and Littlefield p 222 ISBN 978 0 8108 8440 3 Retrieved 4 August 2019 Composer Nikolai Lopatnikoff Dies Here at 73 Obituaries The Pittsburgh Press 8 October 1976 p 14 untitled The Homewood Cemetery Historical Fund 28 March 2015 Retrieved 13 November 2015 Nikolai Lopatnikoff Collection 1916 1979 Washington DC Library of Congress Retrieved 13 November 2015 Karlsruher Kunstbericht Freiburger Zeitung 23 February 1927 p 2 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Nikolai Lopatnikoff amp oldid 1218297610, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
