Yevgeny Tikotski
Internet Edition compiled by Onno van Rijen
Updated 22 January 2005
Born
14/26 December 1893 in Petersburg. Died: 24 November 1970 in Minsk.
Education
Tikotski began playing the piano at the age of eight, in 1908 he entered the School of Music,
which he finished in 1912. After completing his secondary education, he studied for three years
in the St. Petersburg Institue for Psychological and Neurological Research (1911-1914)
and also in the Arts Faculty of the University, from which he did not graduate.
During the first World War, he served as a company commander on the Russo-German front, and,
although wounded by a heavy shell splinter, he remained at his post and took part in
General Brussilov’s offensive in 1916. Following his demobilization in 1917, he returned
to St. Petersburg for a short while and began studying at the Institute for Geography, but
in 1918 he resumed military services and spent six years in the ranks of the Red Army on
staff work, which he combined wth the study of music and composition.
During that period, he wrote Red Army songs and choruses as well as variety songs for clubs.
From 1920 onwards, he army unit was stationed in Belorussia, and his first acquaintance
with Belorussian national music dates back to those days. He studied and noted the score
of popular songs, of which he wrote arrangements.
Style
In his compositions the national style of Belorussian music emerges from the country’s folklore.
Works
„The Stormy Petrel“ for mixed corus and orchestra (1920)
- Revised in 1936.
LP Melodiya D 022863-4: Byelorussian State SO, Yefimov (cond), S. Moshkov (bass)
Symphony No. 1 opus 5 (1927)
„Holy Cow“, musical comedy after G. Gradov and V. Orlov opus 6 (1931)
Piano Trio opus 8 (1934)
Concerto for trombone and orchestra opus 9 (1934)
Mikhas Podgorniy, opera after P. Brovka opus 18 (1939)
Symphony No. 2 opus 19 (1941)
Alesya, opera after P. Brovka opus 31 (1942-1948)
- LP Melodiya D 022863-4: Byelorussian State SO, Yefimov (cond), L. Galushkina (mezzo-soprano), I. Sorokin (bass), M. Galkovsky (tenor), T. Nizhnikova (soprano), V. Chernobayev (bass)
Symphony No. 3 opus 36 (1948-1959)
- LP Melodiya D 011543-4: Byelorussian State SO, Dubrovsky (cond)
Suite No. 1 for Belorussian folkorchestra opus 43 (1950)
Suite No. 2 for Belorussian folkorchestra opus 45 (1952)
„Devushka iz Poles'ya“ opus 46 (1952)
- Revision of the opera Alesya opus 32.
Libretto: P. Brovka and E. Romanovich.
Belorussian Folkorchestra, arrangement of a suite for piano and orchestra (1953)
Prazdnik na Poles'ye, overture for orchestra opus 48 (1954)
Symphony No. 4 opus 53 (1958)
- LP Melodiya D 3758-9: Byelorussian State SO, Afanasev (cond)
Symphony No. 5
„Glory“, overture for orchestra opus 59 (1961)
Symphony No. 6 opus 65 (1963)
- LP Melodiya D 016597-8: Byelorussian State SO, Katayev (cond)
And furthermore:
Lyavonikha for orchestra
- LP Melodiya D 005432-3: Byelorussian State SO, Dubrovsky (cond)
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