Stepan Smolensky

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Stepan Vasil'evich Smolensky (Russian: Степан Васильевич Смоленский,1848-1909) was a choir director and scholar of ancient Russian chant.

Smolensky was a graduate of the Faculties of Jurisprudence and Philology of Kazan University; during his studies, he had also taken private lessons on violin and piano.[1] From the early 1870s he made a study of ancient church chant, publishing several books on znamenny chant and a catalogue of the musical manuscripts held in the library of the Solovetsky Monastery.[1]

In 1889 he settled in Moscow, becoming professor of history and theory of church music at the Conservatory after the death of Dmitri Razumovsky.[1] Simultaneously he became director of the Synod choir and the Moscow Synodal School: his success in these posts resulted in his being appointed director of the Saint Petersburg Court Capella on 6/19 May 1901.[1]

Sources

  • Dunlop, Carolyn C. The Russian Court Chapel Choir 1796-1917. Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Dunlop, p. 47
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