ALEKSANDR DARGOMYZHSKY
(1813-1869)
Alexander Sergeevich Dargomyzhsky is a Russian composer. Born on February 2 (14), 1813 in the village of Troitsky (now Tula Oblast) to a noble family. The decision to devote the young Dargomyzhsky to music was made in 1835 by M. I. The reason for his acquaintance with Glinka. Influenced by Glinka, he was the son of V.Hugo’s first work on an opera, “Esmeralda” (1847), was based on the novel “The ibotathouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Paris”.. In the 1840s “boy and Girl”, “night Marshmallow”, “I loved you” (a. S. To Pushkin’s poems), “I am sad” (M. Yu. To Lermontov’s poems) wrote romances.
The work that brought dargomyzhsky real success is the opera “Rusalka”, created in 1855 based on the plot of Pushkin’s poem, The Music of which is characterized by deep psychologism. In 1859, the composer was elected to the committee of the Russian Musical Society, and in 1867 he was appointed chairman of the St. Petersburg chapter. In his next work, he wrote P. J. Beranje referred to his poetry (“old corporal”, “Ratchang”, etc.
In the last years of his life, dargomyzhsky works on the Opera “Stone guest”, based on one of Pushkin’s “little tragedies”. He worked intensely on the opera, but did not have time to finish the Opera; on January 5 (17), 1869, the composer died. The Opera Was Conducted By Ts. A. Kui, instrumental music N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov finished. “The stone guest” was staged in St. Petersburg in 1872. The use of simple domestic intonations (the so-called intonational realism) in the music of this opera was a bold innovation and gave impetus to the further development of such an opera genre in the future.