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In 1876, Tchaikovsky dedicated his fantasia ''[[Francesca da Rimini]]'', Op. 32, | In 1876, Tchaikovsky dedicated his orchestral fantasia ''[[Francesca da Rimini]]'', Op. 32, "à Monsieur Serge Taneïew". | ||
Taneyev's String Quartet No. 1, Op. 4 (1890) was dedicated to Tchaikovsky. | Taneyev's String Quartet No. 1, Op. 4 (1890) was dedicated to Tchaikovsky. | ||
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* '''[[Letter 5058]]''' – 8/20 October 1893, from [[Moscow]] | * '''[[Letter 5058]]''' – 8/20 October 1893, from [[Moscow]] | ||
112 letters from Taneyev to Tchaikovsky have been preserved, dating from 1874 to 1893, of which 111 are held by the [[Klin]] | 112 letters from Taneyev to Tchaikovsky have been preserved, dating from 1874 to 1893, of which 111 are held by the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]] (a{{sup|4}}, Nos. 4349–4439, 4441–4459 and 6630) <ref name="note2"/>, and one by the {{RUS-Mcl}} in [[Moscow]]. | ||
==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||
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* [[wikipedia:Sergei_Taneyev|Wikipedia]] | * [[wikipedia:Sergei_Taneyev|Wikipedia]] | ||
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* ''[http://www.gavindixon.info/Sergei_Taneyev.htm Sergey Taneyev: Tchaikovsky's Heir or the Russian Bach?]'' | * ''[http://www.gavindixon.info/Sergei_Taneyev.htm Sergey Taneyev: Tchaikovsky's Heir or the Russian Bach?]'' | ||
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<ref name="note1">For more information on Taneyev's stay in Paris in 1876-77, see: [http://www.turgenevmusica.info/en/taneyev.html Turgenev and Taneyev] </ref> | <ref name="note1">For more information on Taneyev's stay in Paris in 1876-77, see: [http://www.turgenevmusica.info/en/taneyev.html Turgenev and Taneyev] </ref> | ||
<ref name="note2">This total includes one letter from 1886 written jointly by Taneyev and his mother [[Varvara Taneyeva|Varvara]]. The [[Klin]] archive also holds one further letter, dating from 1883, written jointly by Taneyev and [[Herman Laroche]].</ref> | |||
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Russian composer, musicologist, teacher, pianist and conductor (b. 13/25 November 1856 in Vladimir; d. 6/19 June 1915 at Dyudkovo, near Zvenigorod), born Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev (Сергей Иванович Танеев).
Tchaikovsky and Taneyev
The youngest son of Ivan Ilyich Taneyev (1796–1879), a state councillor, physician and amateur musician, and his wife Varvara Pavlovna (b. Protopopova, 1822–1889), Sergey began taking piano lessons at the age of five. In 1866, aged just nine, he enrolled in the Moscow Conservatory, studying piano first under Eduard Langer, and then Nikolay Rubinstein. In 1871 he joined Tchaikovsky's composition class, and his outstanding ability earned the admiration of his tutor, and they remained good friends after Taneyev graduated in 1875 (he graduated with gold medals in piano and composition). During an extended stay in Paris (from November 1876 to May 1877), Taneyev helped Tchaikovsky to try to organize a concert of his works in the French capital. Although this plan did not materialize, Taneyev made the acquaintance of a number of prominent composers and musicians in Paris, including Camille Saint-Saëns and Pauline Viardot, and he also met Ivan Turgenev [1]. The former student went on to succeed Tchaikovsky as professor of harmony at the conservatory (1878–1905), and also later served as its director (1885–1889). Throughout his life he continued to compose, and also produced a two-volume treatise on counterpoint (1909).
Tchaikovsky dedicated his orchestral fantasia Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32 (1876) to Sergey Taneyev, and the latter returned the compliment with the dedication of his own String Quartet in B♭ minor (1890). The manuscript of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 23 (1874–75) contains an inscription to Taneyev (who gave one of the earliest performances of the work), although this was struck out in favour of the eventual dedicatee, Hans von Bülow.
In 1882, Taneyev gave the first Russian performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 44 in Moscow, and the first ever performances of the solo parts in the Concert Fantasia, Op. 56 (1885), Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 75 (1895), and Andante and Finale (1896). Taneyev also made transcriptions of a number of Tchaikovsky's works, including piano duet versions of the Symphony No. 4, Op. 36 (1877), the Symphony No. 5, Op. 64 (1888), the opera Iolanta, Op. 68 (1891), and the ballet The Nutcracker, Op. 71 (1891–92), as well as orchestral arrangements of some of Tchaikovsky's songs.
After Tchaikovsky's death in 1893, Taneyev was entrusted by Modest Tchaikovsky to complete a number of works left unfinished: the duet scena for an opera on Romeo and Juliet, the Andante and Finale for piano and orchestra, Op. 79, and the piano piece Momento lirico (unaware that the latter work had already been published in a completed form as the Moment lyrique).
Taneyev was also active in founding the Tchaikovsky House-Museum at Klin in 1895, and after his own death from pneumonia in 1915, Taneyev's own manuscripts were bequeathed to the Klin archive.
Dedications
In 1876, Tchaikovsky dedicated his orchestral fantasia Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32, "à Monsieur Serge Taneïew".
Taneyev's String Quartet No. 1, Op. 4 (1890) was dedicated to Tchaikovsky.
Correspondence with Tchaikovsky
115 letters from Tchaikovsky to Sergey Taneyev have survived, dating from 1874 to 1893, all of which have been translated into English on this website:
- Letter 345 – 25 March/6 April 1874, from Saint Petersburg
- Letter 390 – 5/17 February 1875, from Moscow
- Letter 402 – by 24 May/5 June 1875, from Moscow
- Letter 409 – 14/26 August 1875, from Verbovka
- Letter 411 – 9/21 September 1875, from Moscow
- Letter 414 – September or October 1875, from Moscow
- Letter 415 – September or October 1875, from Moscow
- Letter 455a – 20 March/1 April 1876 (?), from Moscow
- Letter 472 – 14/26 June 1876, from Kamenka
- Letter 500 – 21 September/3 October 1876, from Moscow
- Letter 517 – 2/14 December 1876, from Moscow
- Letter 518 – 5/17 December 1876, from Moscow
- Letter 528 – 25 December 1876/6 January 1877, from Moscow
- Letter 535 – 12/24 January 1877, from Moscow
- Letter 539 – 29 January/10 February 1877, from Moscow
- Letter 551 – 25 April/7 May 1877, from Moscow
- Letter 576 – 5/17 July 1877, from Moscow
- Letter 681 – 7/19 December 1877, from Venice
- Letter 716 – 2/14 January 1878, from San Remo
- Letter 738 – 24 January/5 February 1878, from San Remo
- Letter 799 – 27 March/8 April 1878, from Clarens
- Letter 807 – 4/16 April 1878, from Clarens
- Letter 869a – 12/24 July 1878, from Kamenka
- Letter 924 – 28 September/10 October 1878, from Moscow
- Letter 935 – 7/19 October 1878, from Moscow
- Letter 1056 – 4/16 January 1879, from Clarens
- Letter 1383 – 19/31 December 1879, from Rome
- Letter 1396 – 4/16 January 1880, from Rome
- Letter 1469 – early/mid April 1880, from Moscow
- Letter 1503 – 22 May/3 June 1880, from Kamenka
- Letter 1544 – 21 July/2 August 1880, from Simaki
- Letter 1554 – 1/13 August 1880, from Kamenka
- Letter 1565 – 15/27 August–24 August/5 September 1880, from Kamenka
- Letter 1574 – 1/13 September 1880, from Kamenka
- Letter 1646 – 13/25 December 1880, from Moscow
- Letter 1706 – 10/22 March 1881, from Nice
- Letter 1795 – 27 June/9 July 1881, from Kamenka
- Letter 1826 – 5/17 August 1881, from Kamenka
- Letter 1839 – 23 August/4 September–25 August/6 September 1881, from Kamenka
- Letter 2059 – 11/23 July 1882, from Grankino
- Letter 2071 – 28 July/9 August 1882, from Kamenka
- Letter 2130 – 8/20 October 1882, from Kamenka
- Letter 2148 – 29 October/10 November 1882, from Kamenka
- Letter 2167 – 30 November/12 December 1882, from Moscow
- Letter 2216 – 2/14 February 1883, from Paris
- Letter 2253 – 1/13 April–3/15 April 1883, from Paris
- Letter 2459 – 1/13 April 1884, from Moscow
- Letter 2465 – 14/26 April 1884, from Kamenka
- Letter 2512 – 30 June/12 July 1884, from Grankino
- Letter 2520 – 23 July/4 August 1884, from Skabeyevo
- Letter 2532 – 20 August/1 September 1884, from Skabeyevo
- Letter 2553 – 20 September/2 October 1884, from Pleshcheyevo
- Letter 2557 – 25 September/7 October 1884, from Pleshcheyevo
- Letter 2560 – 28 September/10 October 1884, from Pleshcheyevo
- Letter 2607 – 26 November/8 December 1884, from Paris
- Letter 2619 – 9/21 December 1884, from Saint Petersburg
- Letter 2711 – 20 May/1 June 1885, from Smolensk (addressed jointly to Taneyev and Pyotr Jurgenson)
- Letter 2722 – 13/25 June 1885, from Maydanovo
- Letter 2728 – 28 June/10 July 1885, from Maydanovo
- Letter 2733 – 8/20 July 1885, from Maydanovo
- Letter 2736 – 10/22 July 1885, from Maydanovo
- Letter 2755 – 26 August/7 September 1885, from Maydanovo
- Letter 2757 – 30 August/11 September 1885, from Maydanovo
- Letter 2834 – 11/23 December 1885, from Maydanovo
- Letter 2869 – 24 January/5 February 1886, from Maydanovo
- Letter 2870 – 27 January/8 February 1886, from Maydanovo
- Letter 3001 – 11/23 July 1886, from Maydanovo
- Letter 3016 – 29 July/10 August 1886, from Moscow
- Letter 3039 – 3/15 September 1886, from Maydanovo
- Letter 3125 – 20 December 1886/1 January 1887, from Moscow (addressed jointly to Taneyev and Karl Albrecht)
- Letter 3183 – 14/26 February 1887, from Maydanovo
- Letter 3211 – 28 March/9 April 1887, from Maydanovo
- Letter 3294 – 22 July/3 August 1887, from Aachen
- Letter 3324 – 18/30 August 1887, from Aachen
- Letter 3336 – 2/14 September 1887, from Maydanovo
- Letter 3387 – 16/28 October 1887, from Saint Petersburg
- Letter 3410 – 18/30 November 1887, from Maydanovo
- Letter 3454a – December 1887
- Letter 3455 – 1887, from Moscow
- Letter 3567 – 11/23 May 1888, from Klin
- Letter 3577 – between 24 May/5 June and 29 May/10 June 1888, from Moscow
- Letter 3675a – 21 September/3 October 1888, from Moscow
- Letter 3719 – October 1888 (?), from Moscow
- Letter 3721 – 3/15 November 1888, from Saint Petersburg
- Letter 3860 – 19/31 May 1889, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 3863 – 22 May/3 June 1889, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 3955 – between 7/19 and 9/21 October 1889 (?), from Moscow
- Letter 4098 – 13/25 April 1890, from Rome
- Letter 4244a – 31 October/12 November 1890 (?), from Moscow
- Letter 4285 – 5/17 January 1891, from Moscow
- Letter 4302 – 14/26 January 1891, from Frolovskoye
- Letter 4429 – 27 June/9 July 1891, from Maydanovo
- Letter 4484 – 25 September/7 October 1891, from Maydanovo
- Letter 4525 – 25 October/6 November 1891, from Moscow
- Letter 4533a – 2/14 November or 3/15 November 1891 (?), from Moscow
- Letter 4571 – 9/21 December 1891, from Maydanovo
- Letter 4660 – 10/22 April 1892, from Moscow
- Letter 4724 – 13/25 July 1892, from Klin
- Letter 4746 – 3/15 August 1892, from Klin
- Letter 4750 – 11/23 August 1892, from Moscow
- Letter 4782a – 9/21 October 1892, from Klin
- Letter 4785 – 14/26 October 1892, from Moscow
- Letter 4794 – 3/15 November 1892, from Saint Petersburg
- Letter 4801 – 8/20 November 1892, from Saint Petersburg
- Letter 4806 – 14/26 November 1892, from Saint Petersburg
- Letter 4814 – 5/17 December 1892, from Saint Petersburg
- Letter 4815 – 6/18 December 1892, from Saint Petersburg
- Letter 4818 – 7/19 December 1892, from Saint Petersburg
- Letter 4969 – 18/30 July 1893, from Moscow
- Letter 4983 – 22 July/3 August 1893, from Klin
- Letter 4997 – 1/13 August 1893, from Klin
- Letter 5008 – 12/24 August 1893, from Klin
- Letter 5034 – 18/30 September 1893, from Moscow
- Letter 5036 – mid/late September 1893, from Moscow
- Letter 5058 – 8/20 October 1893, from Moscow
112 letters from Taneyev to Tchaikovsky have been preserved, dating from 1874 to 1893, of which 111 are held by the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a4, Nos. 4349–4439, 4441–4459 and 6630) [2], and one by the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art in Moscow.
Bibliography
- П. И. Чайковский. Два посмертных сочинения (1894)
- Из переписки Чайковского (1902)
- Неизданная переписка П. И. Чайковского с С. И. Танеевым (1907)
- Из переписки Чайковского с Танеевым (1913)
- Из неопубликованной переписки П. И. Чайковского с С. И. Танеевым (1913)
- Музыка в Москве (1916)
- Письма П. И. Чайковского и С. И. Танеева (1874-1893) (1916)
- Письма П. И. Чайковского и С. Танеева (1874-1893) (1916)
- Неизданные письма к С. И. Танееву (1937)
- П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том 62 (1948)
- П. И. Чайковский. С. И. Танеев. Письма (1951)
- П. И. Чайковский. С. И. Танеев. Письма (1951)
- Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-93) (1965)
- Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-93) (1966)
- Speaking of records. A new Tchaikovsky piano concerto (1972)
- Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-93) (1978)
- Meester en leerling. Een brief van Sergej Tanejev aan Tsjaikovski en Tsjaikovski's antwoord (1980)
- Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) (1990)
- Из писем композитора (1990)
- Ich zähle offen alles auf, was mir an Ihrer Vierten Sinfonie nicht gefällt (1994)
- Инструментальная кантиленная мелодика и её стилистические преломления в русской музыке конца ХIХ- начала ХХ веков (Чайковский, Танеев, Рахманинов, Скрябин) (2001)
- Отечественные истоки творчества С. И. Танеева (2006)
External Links
- Wikipedia
- Internet Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- VIAF
- Sergey Taneyev: Tchaikovsky's Heir or the Russian Bach?
Notes and References
- ↑ For more information on Taneyev's stay in Paris in 1876-77, see: Turgenev and Taneyev
- ↑ This total includes one letter from 1886 written jointly by Taneyev and his mother Varvara. The Klin archive also holds one further letter, dating from 1883, written jointly by Taneyev and Herman Laroche.
