Lev Mei
Lev Aleksandrovich Mei or Mey (25 February 1822) was a Russian dramatist and poet.
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Lev Mei
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- Name
- Lev Mei
- Birth Name
- Lev Aleksandrovich Mei
- Born
- 25 February 1822
- Birthplace
- Moscow, Russia
- Died
- 28 May 1862
- Place of death
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Occupation
- * Dramatist
- Nationality
- Russian Empire
- Fields
- writer
- Education
- Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum · Moscow Institute of nobility
- Languages
- Russian · German
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Lev Aleksandrovich Mei or Mey (25 February 1822) was a Russian dramatist and poet.
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• Name — Lev Mei • Birth Name — Lev Aleksandrovich Mei • Born — 25 February 1822 • Birthplace — Moscow, Russia • Died — 28 May 1862 • Place of death — Saint Petersburg, Russia • Occupation — * Dramatist • poet
Biography
Biography
Mei was born on 25 February 1822, in Moscow. His father was a German officer who was wounded in the Battle of Borodino and died young. His mother was Russian. Mei completed his studies in Moscow in 1841 and served in the office of the Governor for 10 years. He became part of the "young editorial staff" of Mikhail Pogodin's Moskvityanin. For a time, he taught secondary school, but was forced to retire because of conflicts with his colleagues. He moved to Saint Petersburg, where he was active in literary endeavors. It was during this period that he contributed to the leading Russian magazines, including Biblioteka Dlya Chteniya, Otechestvennye Zapiski, Syn Otechestva, Russkoye Slovo, Russkiy Mir, and Svetoch. Mei wrote the historical dramas, The Tsar's Bride (1849), Servilia (1854) and The Maid of Pskov (1859), all three of which the composer Rimsky-Korsakov later used as the basis for operas. Mei lived a dissipated and bohemian life, with a great fondness for drink, which led to his untimely death on 16/28 May 1862.
Lev Aleksandrovich Mei, from the book «Gallery of Russian writers», 1901, page 419.
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1822
Lev Mei born at Moscow.
1862
Lev Mei died at Saint Petersburg.
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- 1.Reinhard Lauer: Geschichte der russischen Literatur, 2000, S. 315f.
- 2.Klaus Städtke: Lyrik um die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts, in: Klaus Städtke (Hrsg.): Russische Literaturgeschichte. 2., aktualisierte und erw. Aufl., Stuttgart : Metzler, 2011, S. 174
- 3.Tchaikovsky Research: Lev Mey, abgerufen am 14. November 2016 (engl.)
- 4.Die Jahreszahlen für die Hochzeit variieren zwischen 1850 und 1852.
- 5.Barbara T. Norton, Jehanne M. Gheith: An Improper Profession: Women, Gender, and Journalism in Late Imperial Russia, darin von Carolyn R. Marks: Provid[ing] Amusement for the Ladies, The Rise of the Russian Women’s Magazine in the 1880s, S. 100.
- 6.Petrucci Music Library: Servilia (Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay), abgerufen am 11. November 2016.
- 7.Gerald R. Seaman: Nikolay Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov: A Research and Information Guide, Second edition, Routledge 2014, ISBN 978-1-315-76177-0, S. 10f, 13, 32, 128, 134, 138f, 146, 410, 583 und 586.
- 8.Dorothea Redepennig. Rimskij-Korsakow, Nicolaj. P14. 138. 165. Verzeichnis der Bühnenwerke, Sp. 151 f.
- 9.Musirony: Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow (1844-1908): Pskovitjanka, abgerufen am 12. November 2016.
- 10.Deutschlandradio Kultur: Die Heldin tot, die Stadt gerettet - Rimskij-Korsakows Oper "Das Mädchen von Pskow"24. Januar 2009, abgerufen am 14. November 2016.
- 11.Isny Oper (Allgäu): im Programmheft 2015, S. 57, abgerufen am 12. November 2016.
- 12.Rimski-Korsakow: Libretto Boyarinya Vera Sheloga, Stanford University, abgerufen am 13. November 2016
- 13.IMSLP. Aleksandr Borodin: Songs and Romances.
- 14.IMSLP. Joel Engel: List of works by Joel Engel.
- 15.IMSLP. Modest Mussorgsky: Hebrew Song. Erste Fassung.
- 16.IMSLP. Modest Mussorgsky: Child's Song.
- 17.IMSLP. Modest Mussorgsky: Desire. Zweite Fassung.
- 18.IMSLP. Modest Mussorgsky: Gathering Mushrooms. Erste Fassung.
- 19.ORF.at. Radiokolleg - Russische Verse als Melodie.
- 20.IMSLP. Sergei Rachmaninoff: 12 Romances, Op.21.
- 21.IMSLP. Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: 6 Romances, Op.8.
- 22.IMSLP. Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: 4 Romances, Op.2.
- 23.IMSLP. Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: 4 Romances, Op.42.
- 24.IMSLP. Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: 4 Romances, Op.7.
- 25.IMSLP. Pyotr Tchaikovsky: 6 Romances and Songs, Op.27.
- 26.IMSLP. Pyotr Tchaikovsky: 6 Romances, Op.25.
- 27.IMSLP. Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Tenor Songs.
- 28.IMSLP. Pyotr Tchaikovsky: I Should Like in a Single Word.
- 29.IMSLP. Pyotr Tchaikovsky: 6 Romances, Op.28.
- 30.IMSLP. Pyotr Tchaikovsky: 6 Romances, Op.6.
- 31.Richard D. Sylvester: Tchaikovsky's Complete Songs: A Companion With Texts and Translations (Russian Music Studies)X. Indiana University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0253216762. ( )
- 32.Karl Laux (Hrsg.), Paul Losse (Hrsg.): Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: Ausgewählte Lieder. Edition Peters.
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