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Compositions sorted on opus (if available)
55 numéros
Op. 1
Op. 5
Op. 7
Op. 8
Op. 11
Op. 15A
Op. 15B
Op. 16
Op. 17
Op. 19
Op. 20
Op. 21
Op. 21a
Op. 22
Op. 24
Op. 25
Op. 27
Op. 28
Op. 29
Op. 34
Op. 35
Op. 37
Op. 37a
Op. 38
Op. 40
Op. 41
Op. 42
Op. 45
Op. 48
Op. 49
Op. 50
Op. 51
Op. 55
Sheet music for Wladimir Ivanovich Rebikov
Rebikov -- Silhouettes, Op. 31 — Vladimir Rebikov
Piano — Book — 20th Century; Masterwork; Romantic
Composed by Vladimir Rebikov (1866-1920). Edited by Willard A. Palmer. Masterworks; Piano Collection. Alfred Masterwork Edition. 20th Century; Masterwork; Romantic. Book. 24 pages. Alfred Music #00-1708. Published by Alfred Music (AP.1708).
Price: $6.00
Romances & Poems of Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev - The Complete Song Opuses for Voice & Piano — Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev
— CD — Classical
Composed by Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev (1856-1915). Classical. CD. Centaur #CRC3749-50. Published by Centaur (NX.CRC3749-50).
Price: $16.00
Musette — Wladimir Vogel
guitar — — Classical
Guitar Solo. Composed by Wladimir Vogel (1896-1984). Edited by Konrad Ragossnig. Arranged by Konrad Ragossnig. Sheet music. Gitarren-Archiv (Guitar Archive). Classical. 2 pages. Schott Music #GA 459. Published by Schott Music (HL.49010872).
Price: $12.00
Jona ging doch nach Ninive — Wladimir Vogel
Baritone, Speaker, Speaking Choir, Mixed Choir and Orchestra — Score Only —
From the Book of Twelve. Composed by Wladimir Vogel (1896-1984). Score Only. 106 pages. Bote und Bock #SCHBB5500269. Published by Bote und Bock (BT.SCHBB5500269).
Price: $19.00
2 Etudes — Wladimir Vogel
Orchestra — Study Score — Studies & Exercises
Composed by Wladimir Vogel (1896-1984). Studies & Exercises. Study Score. Bote und Bock #SCHBB6501222. Published by Bote und Bock (BT.SCHBB6501222).
Price: $15.00
Jona ging doch nach Ninive — Wladimir Vogel
Baritone, Speaker, Speaking Choir, Mixed Choir and Orchestra — Score Only —
From the Book of Twelve. Composed by Wladimir Vogel (1896-1984). Score Only. 8 pages. Bote und Bock #SCHBB6700051. Published by Bote und Bock (BT.SCHBB6700051).
Price: $3.00
D. Shostakovich: Igroki — Alexander Archipow; Anatolji Babykin; Wladimir Bogatschow; Michail Jurowski; Jan Kazda; Michail Krutikow; Et al
— 2 listening CDs —
By Alexander Archipow; Anatolji Babykin; Wladimir Bogatschow; Michail Jurowski; Jan Kazda; Michail Krutikow; Et al. By Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975). 2 listening CDs. Published by Capriccio (NX.C60062-2).
Price: $24.00
D. Shostakovich: Suite on Wor — Anatolji Babykin; Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra; Michail Jurowski; Wladimir Kasatschuk; Anatolij Kotscherga
— listening CD —
By Anatolji Babykin; Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra; Michail Jurowski; Wladimir Kasatschuk; Anatolij Kotscherga. By Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975). Listening CD. Published by Capriccio (NX.C10777).
Price: $16.00
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. — Helene Grimaud, Staatskapelle Dresden, Wladimir Jurowski
— listening compact disc —
By Helene Grimaud, Staatskapelle Dresden, Wladimir Jurowski. By Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Listening compact disc. Published by Deutsche Grammophon (NX.B000984002).
Price: $17.00
Abschied — Wladimir Vogel
string orchestra — score —
Composed by Wladimir Vogel (1896-1984). Score. Published by Hug Musikverlage (HG.GH-11225).
Price: $37.00
For Peter Roy Cook
Vladimir Rebikov
by Dr. David C.F. Wright
Vladimir Rebikov was the most advanced Russian composer of his time yet he has been unfairly dismissed as a composer of inconsequential piano miniatures.
The fact is that he was an innovator shaking off the restrictions of traditionalism and the influence of Tchaikovsky although Rebikov studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Nikolai Klenovsky who was a pupil of Tchaikovsky.
By 1898 Rebikov had composed music of originality and invention. It was in 1905 that Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915) became innovative having fallen under the spell of Madame Blavatsky’s theosophy and mysticism. She believed that she culd prevent many strong men from lifting a table by the power of her mind. She was exposed as a fraud in 1914. Scriabin began to use chords of fourths seven years after Rebikov had done so and Scriabin built up his mystic chord of fourths namely C, F sharp, B flat, E, A and D.
Rebikov had been using such chords for seven years or more as well as unresolved dissonances and the whole tone scale. No wonder at the end of his life Rebikov was disillusioned and said that Scriabin, and others, had stolen and profited from his original ideas.
Even today, Scriabin is well-known and Rebikov is not.
He was born in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia on 31 May 1866. He studied the piano, first with his mother but studied and graduated in linguistics. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory of Music and Klenovsky was his theory teacher. Not wishing to be trammelled by current fashion, Rebikov strove to be original, which must be a mark of a great composer, and while those who do remember him do so for his piano miniatures it was the music for the theatre that made his name. His ballet Yelka, The Christmas Tree was first produced in Moscow on 30 October 1903 and was a great success. It became very popular for many years eclipsing the ballets of Tchaikovsky. Rebikov’s ballet, Snow White, first produced in Tiflis in 1906, was also a phenomenal success.
While Humperdinck’s opera “Hänsel und Gretel” may be an opera for children, Rebikov wrote an opera with children in mind and for them to participate in. This fairy opera was called Prince Charming and Princess Beautiful and it successfully engendered in children a love for opera and the theatre which for many became a lifelong passion. One can therefore say that Rebikov was a major cause of bringing culture and art to children and the masses. Benjamin Britten tried to emulate this in 1949 by composing his Let’s make an opera.
Rebikov’s first opera, The Storm is his opus five premiered in Odessa in 1895 where the composer began his teaching career. He also was to teach n Moscow, Kiev and Kishinev and all before 1898. He founded music schools in Odessa, Kishinev and elsewhere. He was not just a composer of piano miniatures. He was a fine composer of operas, ballets, orchestral suites, educational music, musical-psycholographic dramas, a renowned teacher and a progressive composer and not a musician stuck in a rut.
In 1898 he visited Vienna and realised that his music must take a different direction. He was hearing music unhampered by Russian traditionalism and predictability. His music, like that of many Russian pianist-composers was merely salon music. He revolutionised his music and this influenced Stravinsky who was only 16 at the time of Rebikov’s conversion. In 1910, Stravinsky composed his first ballet The Firebird followed by Petrushka in 1911 and the sensational Rite of Spring in 1913. He was clearly inspired by the ballets of Rebikov and even more so by their success.
It is true that Rebikov’s early piano music is influenced by Tchaikovsky. His Rêveries d’automne, Op 8 of 1897 begins with a Chanson Triste written in memory of Tchaikovsky, who had died in 1893. The second piece is entitled Insouciance, the third Moment Triste, the fourth Le dernier rendez-vous, the fifth Souvenir doloureux, the sixth Preseverance, the seventh Autumn’s Journey, the eighth Bouffonnene, the ninth is a mazurka and the tenth is called Doux reproche. This is followed by Rustic echoes and the fourteeeth piece is called Le Repenter. The pieces are straightforward but enriched with melody. They are also prophetic as the titles perhaps suggest. There is the sadness as the passing of a great master and autumn’s journey itself as if the composer had come to the crossroads in his musical journey and wants to embark on and explore an unfamiliar route.
Opus 11 is his first set of Melomimics, each piece being prefaced with a written text describing a short scenario or theme. The first in this set is entitled A Declaration of Love and the second is headed A letter. Here his new harmonies are evident and are developed in his Opus 15, Les Reves, five melomimics of 1898. Debussy was to take up some of these ideas in his Preludes (1910–1913) and in his Etudes of 1915. In Rebikov’s Opus 11 the piece, Les demons s’amusent is written entirely in the whole tone scale.
He was the first Russian compsoer to make an important use of the chords of the seventh and ninths and of polytonality. Grieg admired him considerably but his brave and new harmonic palette in his piano music was not appreciated in Russia and his definition of some of his music as melodeclamation was ridiculed. he also used the vocal technique of sprechstimme which means spoken song. Humperdinck had used this very briefly in his opera Königskinder of 1897. Rebikov developed this with amazing rhytmic contrasts.
His Aspirir et attendre is described as a tableau musical-psychogique and is his Opus 25. His other musico-psycholographic dramas include The Abyss of 1910. The Gentry’s Nest (sometimes called The Nobleman’s Nest) of 1916, which is a seting of Turgenev’s play, in which the vocal parts are speech-based and the music supports the action on the stage. Such works have been described as akin to the movie musical. The score sets out details of all the characters and full details of the required set designs.
Operas include The Woman with the Dagger of 1911, Alpha and Omega, with a libretto by the composer, also of 1911, and Narcissus based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
In 1909 Rebikov arrived in Yalta in the Crimea setting up a music school. He became resentful of other composers stealing his ideas which they clearly did and enjoyed consequential fame as a result.
He died on 4 August 1920 in Yalta. He has been forgotten and ridiculed and these injustices must be remedied.
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Voya Toncitch
[in French]
Wladimir Rébikoff — initiateur de la musique conceptuelle
«... Lorsqu’il s’agit d’apprécier une musique différente de celle qui court les rues, la passion, le parti-pris prennent seuls la parole et empêchent le bon sens et le bon goût de parler»
Berlioz
Le compositeur russe Wladimir Rébikoff (1866–1920), attiré par l’expérimentation dans le domaine de l’harmonie, eut l’idée de tester l’influence des éléments extérieurs sur la perception acoustique d’une création sonore ainsi qu’en témoignent ses oeuvres pour le piano dans lesquelles il introduisit la parole, le mime et le mouvement mimique constituant la mélomimique, une sorte d’art scénique. Dans la mélomimique ainsi conçue, le mime et la musique instrumentale font une entité indivisible. Les danses n’y jouent aucun rôle. La différence entre une pantomime et une mélomimique : le rôle de la musique est aussi important que celui du mime. Le domaine de mélomimique commence là où la parole finit et où seul le sentiment règne. Wladimir Rébikoff donne des suggestions suivantes dans ses mélomimiques pour le piano:
- «Rêves» — 5 Mélomimiques op. 15
- Nº1. Naïade — Le pêcheur dort dans sa barque et rêve que la Reine des Mers penche sur lui et chante pour lui
- Nº2. Amusement des Démons – Silencieux et indolents, les démons regardent la danse de la ravissante fille du Satan
- Nº3. Faune — Aurore dans la forêt. Deux Bacchantes dorment dans l’ombre d’un arbre. A proximité, un Faune joue de la flûte de pan
- Nº4. Néréide — Au bord de la mer Egée, sous le clair de lune, la Néréide joue de la harpe. Un Triton apparaît de l’eau et l’écoute en silence. Sur l’horizon : un vaisseau fend les flots dans un silence rêveur
- Nº5. Dans la Forêt — Au clair de la lune, les nymphes chantent. La forêt, enchantée, dort dans le calme serein
- Opus 17:
- N°1 Clair de lune — La fille appuyée sur le buste du sphinx, regarde le ciel
- N°2 Nuit dans une Forêt — Deux petits faunes dansent sur une musique provenant de la flûte du vieux faune. Non loin d’eux, une dryade contemple le tableau
- Etc.
Dans son op. 48 dédié à l’éditeur P. Jurgenson, intitulé «Chansons Blanches», Wladimir Rébikoff supprime le texte d’introduction et se réfère à la fantaisie de son interprète. La blancheur verbale des 4 Pièces op. 48 voile les couleurs sentimentales d’une ébauche harmonique visant la simplicité d’expression.
Mal compris par les contemporains et sapés par les critiques, ces essais de Rébikoff (ainsi que ceux d’Alexandre Scriabine dans son «Poëme de Feu — Prométhée») n’eurent pas de suite directe.
Extrait de l’essai "Musique conceptuelle" de Voya Toncitch, publié dans Musicalia (Genova / Gênes, Italie) IV trimestre 1970 anno 1 n. 4 & Schweizerische Musikzeitung (Zurich) Nº3, mai–juin 1971
Voir aussi: "Contribution à la recherche des origines esthétiques de la pensée musicale contemporaine" de Voya Toncitch, publié dans Anuario Musical / Instituto español de musicología / Consejo superior de investigaciones científicas / Volumen XXVII 1972/1973 Barcelona
Rebikov’s birthday is 19 May on the Julian calandar, 31 May on the Gregorian calendar.
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