Mitrofan Petrovich Belyayev (Russian: Митрофа́н Петро́вич Беля́ев; old style 10. Ilya Yefimovich Repin (Илья́ Ефи́мович Ре́пин Ілля Юхимович Рєпін ( Chuhuiv, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Old Style (or OS) and New Style (or NS) are used in English language historical studies either to indicate that the start of the Julian year /22 February 1836 in St. Petersburg – 22 December 1903/4 January 1904) was a Russian music publisher and merchant. Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne Year 1836 ( MDCCCXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Saint Petersburg ( tr: Sankt-Peterburg,) is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River Events 1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies Year 1903 ( MCMIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar or a Common year starting Events 46 BC - Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina. Year 1904 ( MCMIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting on Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending His surname is often transliterated as Belaieff or Belayev.
Belyayev was the son of a rich Russian wood dealer and large land owner and of a Swedish mother. Early on, he was established as a successful buyer in his father's company, whose line he took over after 30 years. His passion, at first private, was however for music.
Belyayev had learned and played violin, viola and piano when in school, and played viola for many years in a string quartet. Later he became a member in a circle of friends in St. Petersburg of chamber musicians, and with the leaders of that time - Anatoly Lyadov and Alexander Borodin - undertook journeys in Russia and abroad to learn more music, among other places to Bayreuth. Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov or Liadov (Анатолий Константинович Лядов ( May 11 (old style April 29) 1855 St Petersburg - Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (Александр Порфирьевич Бородин Aleksandr Porfir'evič Borodin) ( &ndash) was a Russian Composer Bayreuth ( pronounced) is a City in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Frankish Alb Belyayev learned several foreign languages, including German.
An important event for Belyayev's future and his important role as leader in Russian music life was his meeting in 1882 with the highly-talented, scarcely 17-year-old Alexander Glazunov, whose 1st Symphony was premiered at that time. Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov (Александр Константинович Глазунов Aleksandr Konstantinovič Glazunov; Glazounov Glasunow &ndash 21 March Belyayev's increasing commitment to the promotion of Russian composers led to a gradual retreat from his activity as a wood dealer. In 1884 he became founder of the "Glinka prize", which was awarded annually. Year 1884 ( MDCCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Михаи́л Ива́нович Гли́нка ( –) was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition inside his own country In the first years the winners included Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Cesar Cui and Lyadov. Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev ( Милий Алексеевич Балакирев, Milij Alekseevič Balakirev) ( 2 January 1837 Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov ( Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков, Nikolaj Andreevič Rimskij-Korsakov) also Nikolay César Antonovich Cui ( Цезарь Антонович Кюи, Tsezar' Antonovič Kjui) ( - March 13, 1918) was a Russian of French
In 1885 Belyayev created the publishing house "M. P. Belaieff" in Leipzig. This sort of fix restores section edit linkpoints to where they belong In the following decade 1,200 compositions were produced, the first of which was Glazunov's Overture on Greek Themes. The works published there were edited with high quality, the authors received higher fees than was usual, and kept full control over performance rights. Thus Belyayev made important contributions to the promotion and spreading of Russian music. At first Belyayev selected the works to be produced; later he conferred with a jury, which consisted of Rimsky-Korsakov, Lyadov and Glazunov. Composers from not only St. Petersburg were accepted to the publishing house program, but also rather "western"-oriented Muscovite composers such as Sergey Taneyev and Alexander Scriabin. Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (Pronounced Ta-'ñe-jəv (also Taneev or Taneiev, Russian: Сергей Иванович Танеев Sergej Ivanovič Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Скря́бин Aleksandr Nikolaevič Skrjabin; sometimes transliterated as Skriabin
In 1885 Belyayev brought the "Russian symphony concerts" to St Petersburg, and from 1891 in his house there were weekly "quartet Fridays" ("Les Vendredis") . The composers promoted by Belyayev several times wrote musical contributions both in his honor and to contribute to these occasions. For example, for his 50th birthday, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Lyadov and Glazunov collaborated on a string quartet on the notes B-A-F (Be-la-ef). Another of their joint projects was a set of variations on a Russian theme for piano and orchestra, to which in addition Alexander Kopylov, Nikolay Sokolov and other members of the circle contributed individual movements. Alexander Alexandrovich Kopylov (Александр Александрович Копылов July 14 1854 &ndash 20 February 1911) (or Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov ( March 26 1859 &ndash March 27 1922) was a Russian Composer of classical music and a member
In 1886 the important Russian painter Ilya Repin made a portrait of Belyayev. Ilya Yefimovich Repin (Илья́ Ефи́мович Ре́пин Ілля Юхимович Рєпін ( Chuhuiv, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine
Richard Beattie Davis, a resident of Kent, England has been for many years a keen collector of first and early editions of Western and Russian music. He has written articles on Henselt, Hummel, Balakirev and Lyapunov and has mounted exhibitions and given talks in London, Germany and South Florida. He has contributed works listings of a number of other Russian composers, together with sleeve notes for recorded works of Lyapunov, Balakirev, Henselt, Rakhmaninov and Scriabin . He was, for many years, on the Governing Board of the 'Purcell School of Music' (London) and is currently a 'fellow'. In the 1960s he was a founding member of the 'Haydn Opera Society' (London) He has contributed articles for the 2nd. Edition of 'The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians', and a forthcoming Encyclopaedia of Russian music, currently in preparation. He has now written the definitive work on the Russian music publisher, Mitrofan Petrovich Belaieff many of whose publications he has lodged with the 'Special Collections' of the S. E. Wimberly Library, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida. (www. library. fau. edu/depts/spc/davis. htm) Richard Davis is the honorary president of the 'Internationale Adolph-Henselt-Gesellschaft' (Schwabach, Germany) where he has presented papers, made listings and mounted music exhibitions. He has now had his work 'The Beauty of Belaieff' published by http://www.gclefpublishing.com
Further reading
- Schibli, Sigfried: Alexander Skrjabin und seine Musik. Piper, München/Zürich, 1983. ISBN 3-492-02759-8.
- Davis, Richard Beattie: The Beauty of Belaieff. GClef Publishing, London, 2008. ISBN 978-1-905912-14-8.
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