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Lvov, Aleksei
LVOV, Aleksei Fyodorovich (b. 25 May [5 June] 1798, Revel, today Tallin, Estonia; d. 16 [28] December 1870, estate of Roman’, near Kovno, today Kaunas, Lithuania) — began his career as a military engineer, while continuing to play the violin, which he had studied from childhood. In 1833 gained fame as the composer of the national anthem “God, Save the Tsar”; in 1834 was appointed as personal adjutant to Emperor Nicholas I. From 1837 through 1861, served as Director of the Imperial Court Chapel. As Director of the Chapel, Lvov had a marked effect on the direction of church singing in Russia. Enforcing the Imperial Decree of 1816, according to which only works approved by the Director of the Chapel could be performed at divine services, Lvov exercised strict control over the repertoire of church choirs in Russia. Under his administration, precentors’ courses were established at the Imperial Chapel, as well as a system of examinations and ranks for church precentors; each diocese in the Russian Empire was required to send candidates for training. Lvov also supervised the compilation and arrangement in four-part harmony of the Obikhod notnovo peniya [Common book of musical singing], which later came to be required throughout the entire country. In his theoretical work O svobodnom ili nesimmetrichnom ritme [Concerning free or unsymmetrical rhythm] (1858), Lvov was the first among Russian musicians to identify theoretically the possibility in choral music of rhythm determined by verbal accents rather than by a regular meter. Lvov’s compositional output bears a strong influence of the Italianate style and in particular, of early German Romanticism. In the field of church music, in addition to the Obikhod and a number of simple harmonizations of various common chants, he composed 48 works (publ. by A. Gutheil): of these 17 are composed in free rhythm, but only five are chant arrangements; 15 works have the character of “miniature” sacred concertos, while four are large-scale, multi-movement sacred concertos. In Lvov’s works the harmony, replete with chromaticism, has a marked predominance over melody.
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Penie na Bozhestvennoi Liturgii, sovershaemoi arkhiereem
Hymns at the Hierarchal Divine Liturgy
S.Op. 17
First printed edition
39
Lv017-Lv026
1
It is truly meet
[Russian “Greek” Chant]
Hymn for the entrance of the bishop
SATB
Lv014a
3
Svyshe prorotsy... Da vozraduetsia
The prophets proclaimed... Thy soul shall rejoice
[S.Op. 17, No. 2]
At the vesting of the bishop
SATTB Soli and S(div)A(div)TB Chorus
7
Lv018
4
Svyshe prorotsy... Da vozraduetsia
The prophets proclaimed... Your soul shall rejoice
S.Op. 19
Arr. for SATTB Chorus
4
Lv018a
5
Come, let us worship
[S.Op. 17, No. 3]
[Russian “Greek” Chant]
TTBB (Clergy Choir) and SATB Chorus
2
Lv019
6
Many years to you, O master
[S.Op. 17, No. 4]
SSA Trio and SATB Chorus
2
Lv020
7
Many years to you, O master
[S.Op. 17, No. 5]
SSA Trio and SATB Chorus
6
Lv021
9
Tropari pri khirotonii Diakona ili Presvitera
Hymns at the ordination of a deacon or presbyter
[S.Op. 17, No. 7]
At the ordination
TTBB (Clergy Chorus) and SATB Chorus
5
Lv023
11
Svyshe prorotsy... Da vozraduetsia [No. 2]
The prophets proclaimed... Your soul shall rejoice
S.Op. 18
At the vesting of a bishop
SSATBB Soli and SATB Chorus
6
Lv025
Postiashchesia, bratie, telesne
Brethren, as we fast bodily
S.Op. 29
Sticheron at Wednesday Vespers of the First Week of Lent
SATB
A. Gutheil #A.377929 G. 1887
First printed edition
3
Lv035
Let us keep a worthy fast
S.Op. 28
Sticheron at Monday Vespers of the First Week of Lent
SATB
A. Gutheil #A.377928 G. 1887
First printed edition
3
Lv034
We worship Thy most pure Image
S.Op. 31
Dismissal Troparion at Sunday Vespers of the First Week of Lent
SATB
A. Gutheil #A.377931 G. 1887
First printed edition
3
Lv037
Predlozhiv tainuiu post trapezu
Having offered us a mystical repast
S.Op. 32
Kathisma Hymn at Tuesday Matins of the Second Week of Lent
SATB
A. Gutheil #A.377932 G. 1887
First printed edition
3
Lv038
Predstoiashche Krestu neiskusobrachnaia Mati
Standing before the Cross
S.Op. 34
Stavrotheotokion at Wednesday Matins of the Fourth Week of Lent
SATB
A. Gutheil #A.377934 G. 1887
First printed edition
3
Lv040
Priide post, mati tselomudriia
The fast, the mother of chastity, is here
S.Op. 27
Sticheron at Monday Matins of the First Week of Lent
SATB
A. Gutheil #A.377927 G. 1887
First printed edition
2
Lv033
Come, let us celebrate the dormition
S.Op. 42
Sacred concerto
from the Akathistos for the Dormition of the Mother of God?
SATB(div)
A. Gutheil #A.377942 G. 1887
First printed edition
4
Lv048
Incline Thine ear, O Lord
S.Op. 39
Sacred concerto
Ps. 142[143]:1-2; 144[145]:18; 145[146]:5-7; 144[145]:21
SSA(div)T(div)B
A. Gutheil #A.377939 G. 1887
First printed edition
26
Lv045