Quartet Passacaglia (String Quartet No. 9): Full Score: Volume 8 (Meladina Music series) - Softcover

Smirnov, Mr Dmitri N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1545049386 ISBN 13: 9781545049389

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

This one-movement piece, consisting of an introduction, a theme and 10 variations, is a sort of musical narrative about a human life, like in La Passacaglia della vita, the famous 17th century Italian Passacaglia about life). The harmony of the piece is based on my own idea of so called complete chords (chords that include all the different intervals within them). The introduction opens with such a chord in the following position of the intervals 5-6-4-3-2-1 (in semitones). It is quite symbolic that the main theme begins with the notes: S-D (S for E-flat), the initials of my own name, and ends with F-E, the initials of the name of my wife, Elena Firsova. The 12-tone row that serves as a basis structure (or a skeleton) for the construction of the main theme of the composition is as follows. I am grateful to Prof. Alan E. Williams for the idea and organisation of the first performance of the quartet. The World Premiere of it took place on 27th of March 2017 at the Peel Hall, Salford University, Manchester, played by the Members of BBC Philharmonic Orchestra: Kevin Flynn, Melody Prophet, violins, Amy Hark, viola, and Peggy Nolan, cello. Dmitri N. Smirnov

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Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (pen names Dmitri N. Smirnov and D. Smirnov-Sadovsky), a Russian and British composer. He was born in 1948, studied at the Moscow Conservatory 1967–1972 under Nikolai Sidelnikov, Yuri Kholopov and Edison Denisov. He also studied privately with Philip Herschkowitz, a pupil of both Berg and Webern. In 1979 Smirnov was blacklisted as one of the Khrennikov's Seven at the “6th Congress of the Union of Soviet Composers” for unapproved participation in some festivals of Soviet music in the West. He was one of the founders of Russia's new ACM (Association for Contemporary Music), established in Moscow in 1990. Since 1991 he has been resident of England.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1545049386
• ISBN 13: 9781545049389
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 24