Suite in B-minor for Orchestra Studyscore - Mili Alexjewisch Balakirev
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Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev
(b. Nizhny-Novgorod, 2 January 1837 - d. St. Petersburg, 29 May 1910)
Suite in B minor (1901-1908):
Préambule, Quasi Valse, Tarantelle
Preface
«In Balakirev’s music we have the dawn and sunset of genius with little of its full day.» Thus the English scholar Gerald Abraham, writing on one of the great enigmas of Russian music history. For when Mily Balakirev burst on the scene in the early 1860s he was clearly the leading figure of a new generation of Russian musicians, the animating spirit behind that brilliant coterie of composers - the «Mighty Handful» - that he co-founded, taught, bullied, and badgered into new stylistic directios. Then, in a Tolstoyan crisis of the spirit, he left music altogether in the 1870s, fell under the spell of a clairvoyant, took up a minor position as a clerk with the Warsaw Railway, and descended into a bigoted religious orthodoxy. It was only with great effort that his few friends were able to coax him back to the field of endeavor in which his genius had flared so briefly, and yet so radiantly, with the incidental music to King Lear (1858-61) and that still unsurpassed tour de force of pianistic virtuosity, the «oriental fantasy» Islamey (1869). He gradually returned to his unfinished earlier projects, completing the symphonic poem Tamara (1867-82). But more importantly, especially after he achieved financial independence with a small state pension in 1884, he resumed composition after a hiatus amounting to almost two decades. He completed his brilliant First Symphony (1864-97) and the Piano Concerto (1861-1909), revised the Lear music (1902-5) and Islamey (1902), and advanced on new projects: the Second Symphony (1900-08), the B-flat minor Piano Sonata (1900-05), the Cantata for the Glinka Memorial (1902-4). Amazingly, no breach in compositional style can be discerned, not even in works whose inception and completion were separated by as much as forty years.
The Suite in B minor, composed between 1901 and 1908, belongs to this late flowering of Balakirev’s genius. Left unfinished at the time of his death, it was completed by his most prominent disciple, Sergey Lyapunov (1859-1924), who had joined Balakirev’s circle in the 1880s and tirelessly championed his master’s music for the rest of his career (Lyapunov also completed the brilliant Piano Concerto). The Suite remained in manuscript until 1975, when the full score, edited by T. Kruntiaevoi, was published by Muzyka in Leningrad and a miniature score by Melodia in Moscow. Lyapunov’s third daughter, later the respected musicologist A. S. Lyapunowa, maintained that the second theme of the Tarantelle derives from material originally intended for an incomplete operatic project on The Fire Bird that Balakirev conceived in the early 1860s, almost fifty years before Stravinsky’s ballet on the same subject. A CD recording of the B-minor Suite, with Evgeni Svetlanov conducting the USSR Symphony Orchestra, was issued in 1991.
Bradford Robinson, 2007
For performance material please contact the publisher. Reprint of a copy from the Musikbibliothek der Münchner Stadtbibliothek, München.
Score No., 695
Edition, Repertoire Explorer
Genre, Orchestra
Pages, 164
Size, 160 x 240 mm
Printing, Reprint
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