Alexander Taneyev

(1850-1918)

"Bazille's Studio; 9 rue de la Condamine" (1870), oil on canvas, 98 x 128.5 cm, of the painter Frederic Bazille, contemporary of Taneyev (Musee d'Orsay, Paris)

The musician Alexander (Sergeyevich) Taneyev was born in San Pietroburgo on the 17th Jenuary 1850, the same year of the composers Brandts Buys, Bretón y Hernández, Fanciulli, Faning, Fibich, Georges, Heuberger, Jordan, Keil, Komzák, Lange-Müller, Luigini, Meyer-Olbersleben, Miguez, Olsen, Scharwenka, Scontrino, Serrano y Ruiz, Simon, Thomas, Thomé, Toulmouche, Urspruch. Died in Petrograd on the 7th February 1918

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Alexander Taneyev

OPERE

"Mest' Amura" was performed on the 19th of May 1899 in San Pietroburgo

"Metel'" was performed on the 11th of February 1916 in Petrograd

LIEDER

"Ne ver' mne, drug" (Ne ver' mne drug, kogda v izbytke gorja), text of Count Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817-1875)

"Vesna, vesna! Kak vozdukh chist!", text of Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (1800-1844)

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