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Ostrogórski [Ostrowski], Maciej
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Ostrogórski [Ostrowski], Maciej.See Szarfenberg, Maciej. Ostrovsky, Aleksandr Nikolayevich(b Moscow, 31 March/12 April 1823; d Shchelïkovo, Kostroma province, 2/14 June 1886). Russian dramatist. He was the son of a government clerk and was brought up in the merchant quarter of Moscow; he worked for eight years as a clerk of the commercial court, thus acquiring wide knowledge of the merchants and low-grade civil servants whom he later portrayed vividly in his plays. His first published work was The Bankrupt (1847–9), and his first work staged Poverty is no Vice (1854). From then until his death he wrote some 40 plays in prose and eight in blank verse, mostly social comedies (he is regarded as the creator of the Russian comedy of manners), but also dramas, historical plays and one poetic fairy tale The Snow Maiden (1873). His best-known work, the drama Groza (known in English as The Storm or The Thunderstorm), is his only play widely known outside Russia, although translations of other plays exist in most European languages. Ostrovsky’s unparalleled pictures of Russian life are perhaps too closely observed and specifically rooted in particular communities of the Russia of his day to appeal widely to foreigners; but his importance in the history of the Russian theatre is exceeded only by that of Gogol' and Chekhov, between whom he forms a vital link. Ostrovsky was particularly interested in folksongs, which he collected and sometimes used in his plays. He was friendly with many musicians; in 1865, with Nikolay Rubinstein, he founded an Artists’ Circle in Moscow, in which the music critic Prince V.F. Odoyevsky also played a prominent part. Ostrovsky collaborated, unsuccessfully, with Serov, and also with Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky; he wrote a scene for Ippolitov-Ivanov’s Ruf ’. His closest collaboration was with Kashperov, for whom he wrote the libretto of Groza. He was the first president of the Society of Russian Dramatists and Opera Composers, founded in Moscow in 1874 to protect authors’ and composers’ performing rights. PRINCIPAL WORKS SET TO MUSIC
BIBLIOGRAPHYJ. Patouillet: Ostrovski et son théâtre de moeurs russes (Paris, 1912) [incl. bibliography] N. Dolgov: A.N. Ostrovskiy: zhizn' i tvorchestvo [Ostrovsky: life and works] (Moscow, 1923) V.V. Yakovlev: Ostrovskiy i muzïkal'naya stikhiya [Ostrovsky and the musical element] (Moscow, 1923) M.M. Ippolitov-Ivanov: Pyat'desyat let russkoy muzïki v moikh vospominaniyakh [50 years of Russian music in my reminiscences] (Moscow, 1934; Ger. trans., 1993 as Meine Erinnerungen), 63ff, 140–41 Ye.M. Kolosova and V. Filippov, eds.: A.N. Ostrovskiy i russkiye kompozitorï [Ostrovsky and Russian composers] (Moscow, 1937) E. Lo Gatto: Storia del teatro russo, i (Florence, 1952) A. Glumov: Muzïka v russkom dramaticheskom teatri [Music in the Russian theatre] (Moscow, 1955) L.M. Lotman: A.N. Ostrovskiy i russkaya dramaturgiya yego vremeni [Ostrovsky and Russian drama of his time] (Leningrad, 1961) G. Ivanov: A.N. Ostrovskiy v muzïke: spravochnik [Ostrovsky in music: a reference guide] (Moscow, 1976) APRIL FITZLYON Directory: download -> 3062a7ba-8b89-4266-8568-82026f790e50 -> Bibliografia%20Básica download -> Northern England’s set-jetting locations download -> Bbc archives: Beyond the programme download download -> Occupational health and safety download -> Dynatest 3031 lwd light Weight Deflectometer download -> Forth coming competitive exams download -> English Olympiad Tasks: 10 th form Аудіювання, 10 клас. Текст download -> Brush High School Morning Announcements Friday, September 05, 2014 all school download -> Year 9 The Arts — Music download -> Years 7 and 8 standard elaborations — Australian Curriculum: Music draft Bibliografia%20Básica -> Faà di Bruno, Giovanni Matteo [Horatio, Orazio] Fabbri, Anna Maria Download 11.95 Mb. Share with your friends:
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