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| {{picture|file=Konstantin Shilovsky.jpg|caption='''Konstantin Shilovsky''' (1849-1893)}} | | <includeonly>Làngmàn pài de jùxīng. Bó lā mǔ sī, shèng sāng, cháikěfusījī, mǎlēi, lǐxiàdéshītèláosī</includeonly><noinclude> {{bibitem |id=2004/22 |Contributors=Shao, Yiqiang (author) |Title=Làngmàn pài de jùxīng. Bó lā mǔ sī, shèng sāng, cháikěfusījī, mǎlēi, lǐxiàdéshītèláosī (浪漫派的巨星. 勃拉姆斯、圣桑、柴可夫斯基、马勒、理夏德・施特劳斯) |Imprint=Shijiazhuang : Héběi jiàoyù chūbǎn shè (河北教育出版社), 2004 |Extent=343 p. ; illus. |Standard=ISBN 7543452782 |Series=Gǔdiǎn yīn (古典 音樂 40) (5) |Format=Book |Language=Chinese |Notes="Famous romantic composers: Brahms, Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Richard Strauss" }} [[Category:Bibliography (2004)]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Bibliography (2004/022)}}</noinclude> |
| Russian librettist, author, actor, and amateur sculptor (b. 1849; d. 22 May/3 June 1893), born as '''''Konstantin Stepanovich Shilovsky''''' (Константин Степанович Шиловский).
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| The son of Major Stepan Stepanovich Shilovsky and his wife Mariya (1830–1879), Konstantin was an accomplished amateur in many of the arts: he wrote poems and short stories, was a fine draughtsman, a sculptor (he fashioned a giant head for a staging of [[Glinka]]'s ''Ruslan and Lyudmila'' at the Bolshoi Theatre in [[Moscow]]), and also composed some gypsy songs which became quite popular in [[Moscow]]. Shilovsky was something of an eccentric, dabbling in alchemy and black magic on his estate, as well as dressing up as an Old Russian boyar and studying the culture of Ancient Egypt (which led him to suggest to his friend Tchaikovsky the subject for an opera set in Egypt — ''[[Ephraim]]'', a project that was never realised). He regularly took part in amateur theatrical performances, and when his family lost much of their fortune he actually managed to find employment as an actor at the Maly Theatre, where he successfully performed the various minor roles that he was given.
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| Konstantin Shilovsky is now mainly remembered for being Tchaikovsky's co-librettist in ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]'', and most of the music of the opera was in fact written during the composer's four-week stay at his friend's family estate in [[Glebovo]] during the summer of 1877. A year earlier, Tchaikovsky had completed the full score of ''[[Swan Lake]]'' at [[Glebovo]]. Konstantin's younger brother [[Vladimir Shilovsky|Vladimir]] (1852–1893) was also a close friend of Tchaikovsky, who dedicated several works to him.
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| ==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky== | |
| 5 letters have survived from Tchaikovsky to Konstantin Shilovsky, dating from 1875 to 1892, all of which have been translated into English on this website:
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| * '''[[Letter 432]]''' – 1875, from [[Moscow]]
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| * '''[[Letter 473]]''' – 14/26 June 1876, from [[Kamenka]]
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| * '''[[Letter 589]]''' – 25 July/6 August 1877, from [[Moscow]]
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| * '''[[Letter 1181]]''' – 15/27 May 1879, from [[Kamenka]]
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| * '''[[Letter 4673a]]''' – 26 April/8 May 1892, from [[Moscow]]
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| 3 letters from Konstantin Shilovsky to the composer, dating from around 1878, are preserved in the [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive.
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| ==Bibliography==
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| * {{bib|1895/31}} (1895)
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| * {{bib|1910/13}} (1910)
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| * {{bib|1940/229}} (1940)
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| * {{bib|1999/104}} (1999)
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| [[Category:People|Shilovsky, Konstantin]]
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| [[Category:Correspondents|Shilovsky, Konstantin]]
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| [[Category:Writers|Shilovsky, Konstantin]]
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