Castalsky biography briefly

Additionally, a composer, choral conductor, folklorist, teacher. Born on November 16 in Moscow in the family of the Moscow Priest, subsequently Archpriest, Master of Theology Dimitry Ivanovich Kastalsky. The receipt of Castalsky to the Moscow Conservatory was largely facilitated by pianist P. Konev, who heard the improvisation of the young musician on the piano in the year. In –81 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory class theory of music by P.

Tchaikovsky, S. Taneyev, N. in the year served as voluntary in the 3rd battery of the 1st Grenadier Artillery Brigade named after His Highness Karl Prussian in the Kremlin. In the year, he left for Kozlov of the Tambov province now Michurinsk, where he was engaged in musical and educational activities, taught at the railway technical school, organized a choir and orchestra from workers and employees.

Then he created his first works of duets for cello with wind instruments, sketches of the mtsyri opera, subsequently destroyed, and others. In the year in Moscow, he led amateur choirs, including the choir of workers of the Prokhorov Trekhgorenaya Manufactory, gave music lessons in Moscow city schools, made various arrangements. In the year, he was invited to the Moscow Synodal School of Church Singing as a teacher of piano in subsequent years, he led Solfegio, a counterpoint of free style, musical forms, people, ordinary singing, methodology of church singing, and statutory singing.

Among the students - N. Golovanov, S. Zharov, M. Klimov, A. Chesnokov, K. from the year - and. Orlova, from the year - the regulator of the regent, C - and. He graduated from the exterior of the Moscow Conservatory, passing the exam for the title of free artist. In Castalsky, he was processing ancient church rospers in a new style according to B. Asafiev - “melon -polyphonic”.

These and subsequent experiments brought him wide fame; He was proclaimed by contemporaries the ancestor of the so -called new direction in Russian spiritual music in the line of this direction A. Grechaninov, A. Nikolsky, P. Chesnokov, S. Rachmaninov and others took part in the work of the Moscow People’s Conservatory, led a course of counterpoint in the musical and dramatic school of the MFI.

At the end of the year he made a project to organize a house of folk song. The Castalsky as the director of the Synodal School after the October Revolution was confronted with the choice: either the full collapse of the school what happened to the synodal choir, or its transfer to the conduct of the People's Commissariat of People's Commissariats and, accordingly, reform.

He chose the second: in the year, the school was transformed into the Moscow Folk Feren Academy headed it for up to a year. From the year, after the merger of the People’s Church Academy with the Moscow Conservatory, he became its professor, then the dean of the conductor -Khore branch, the head of the department of folk music created by him. Among the students are A. Musical Works: operas - “Clara Milich”; Spiritual music - near the choirs; “Eternal memory to the heroes.

Selected chants of the Panichids ”for the choir a cappella M. Features of the People’s -Russian musical system. He died on December 17 in Moscow. In the year, he became part of the musical and ethnographic commission of a society of natural science, anthropology and ethnography at Moscow University, which stimulated Castalsky's interest in archaic and modern forms of folk art.

In the year, his first “musical restorations” of the processing of ancient church chants performed in the historical concert of the Synodal Choir on March 10, then the cycle “From the past centuries” for piano or singing with piano. The talent of the “restorer” was manifested in the restoration of the “cave action” of the ed. In “Restorations” under the name “Pictures of Folk Celebrations in Rus'”, the 1st edition of the year was practically not preserved, the 2nd edition of the years used songs from the collections of M.

Balakirev, N. Rimsky-Korsakov, Yu. Melgunov, N. Polchikov, A. Listopadov, “Works of the musical and ethnographic commission”. A famous musical and public figure. In the year he collaborated with the agitotage department of the musical sector of the state publishing house, in - entered the ASM, in the fraction of the Red Professors of the Moscow Conservatory.

In the last years of his life, he worked on the generalization of his observations regarding the musical language and forms of the Russian folk song of the book: “Features of the People’s -Russian musical system”,; “Features of the popular polyphony”, published in the archive of K. Glinka f. Source: Kastalsky A. From the origins to the present day. Biographical Encyclopedic Dictionary.