Semyon Bogatyrev
Illustration — Semyon Bogatyrev Semyon Semyonovich Bogatyrev (15 February 189031 December 1960) was a Soviet and Russian musicologist and composer. He is best known in the West for his completion of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony in E-flat, which the composer had abandoned incomplete in 1892. In 1893 Tchaikovsky used the first movement as source material for his Piano Concerto No.
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Semyon Bogatyrev
Щербинин Юрий · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Born
- 1890 · Kharkiv.
- Died
- 1960 · Moscow.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire · Soviet Union
- Occupation
- musicologist · composer · music educator · music arranger
- Fields
- musicology · music theory · music education · composed musical work
- Education
- National University of Kharkiv
- Honours
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour · Medal For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 · Order of Lenin · Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Languages
- Russian
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Illustration — Semyon Bogatyrev Semyon Semyonovich Bogatyrev (15 February 189031 December 1960) was a Soviet and Russian musicologist and composer. He is best known in the West for his completion of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony in E-flat, which the composer had abandoned incomplete in 1892. In 1893 Tchaikovsky used the first movement as source material for his Piano Concerto No.
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3 in E-flat, Op. In 1897, Sergei Taneyev used the remaining movements as source for the Andante and Finale for piano and orchestra, which was published as Tchaikovsky's Op. Posth. Between 1951 and 1955, Bogatyrev reconstructed the original Symphony in E-flat as he believed Tchaikovsky might have done had he not become disillusioned with it, and published it as the "Symphony No. 7 in E-flat". It was first performed in Moscow in 1957. He also wrote a number of his own compositions.
Semyon Bogatyrev studied at National University of Kharkiv. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is musicology, music theory and music education. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical music. Places of work recorded in the authority are Soviet Union. Employment is recorded with Moscow Conservatory. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of Lenin and Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
Semyon Bogatyrev is recorded as having received Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" and Order of Lenin.
Семен Семенович Богатырёв - композитор,музыкальный теоретик со своими учениками Харьковской консерватории по классу инструментовки:слева направо - Е.Адливанкина,М.Полевский,В.Аркин,Г.Маречек,А.Лаврова-Щербинина,М.Итигина(позднее преподаватель по классу фортепиано Владимира Крайнева).Из семейного архива автора реконструкции фотографии,сына А.П.Лавровой-Щербининой.
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Semyon Bogatyrev is recorded as having received Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" and Order of Lenin.
1960
Semyon Bogatyrev died in 1960 at Moscow.
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