| 翻訳と辞書 |
| Rothschild's Violin (opera) ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
Rothschild's Violin (opera)
''Rothschild's Violin'' () is a one-act opera by Russian composer Veniamin Fleishman (1913–1941) set to the Russian libretto by the composer after the short story "Rothschild's Fiddle" by Anton Chekhov.
The opera centres on the bitter central character, Yakov Ivanov, a coffin-maker and amateur fiddler, his gradual understanding of life and his bequest of his violin to Rothschild, who also plays in the Jewish band with Ivanov and whom he has treated with contempt.
==History of creation==
Between 1939 and 1941, the young Fleishman was one of Dmitri Shostakovich's most promising students at the Leningrad Conservatory, where he composed his first work, a one-act opera entitled ''Rothschild's Violin''. His mentor had suggested Anton Chekhov's story as the basis for the libretto. Setting his tale in an Eastern Europe ''shtetl'' at the end of the 19th century, Fleishman paid a musical homage to a world on the verge of extinction.
On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler, violating the non-aggression pact he had signed with Joseph Stalin in August 1939, launched a German invasion of the Soviet Union. Young Fleishman joined the civil brigades formed to defend Leningrad and was among the first to be killed in action. Evacuating Leningrad on Stalin's order, Shostakovich managed to salvage Fleishman's unfinished score. In memory of his talented student, Shostakovich rescued the manuscript from besieged Leningrad, finished it and orchestrated it in 1943/1944. Shostakovich dated his completion of the score February 5, 1944. Later, he exerted influence so that the opera should be published and performed.
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Rothschild's Violin (opera)」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|