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Panchenko, Semyon
PANCHENKO, Semyon Viktorovich (b. 1867, Sudzhansky Uezd, in today’s Kursk district; d. 1937, place of death unknown) — studied composition with A. Liadov; in the 1900s had a private music school in St. Petersburg; concertized as a symphony conductor. Later relinquished conducting and occupied himself with composition; besides sacred works, composed piano works, romances, etc. Panchenko’s published sacred works number more than 125 (publ. by P. Jurgenson, et al.), including complete cycles of the Divine Liturgy, the All-Night Vigil, the Memorial Service, etc. The greater part of Panchenko’s works comprises arrangements primarily of the so-called Court Chant, written in a rich, chordal style for six to eight voices. Besides these, Panchenko compiled a “Folk Obikhod” — numerous arrangements of the simplest common chants in a harmonization replete with empty fifths and fourths, unison cadences, etc.; these arrangements, however, did not receive widespread use in church-musical practice. Some of Panchenko’s original sacred compositions employ a musical language considered at the time to be modernistic. Panchenko was connected to the symbolist poets; he was friends with Alexander Blok and in 1903 became the first to set Blok’s poetry to music. According to some sources, Panchenko emigrated at some point after the Revolution, and lived in Berlin and Geneva, devoting himself entirely to composition.
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Blagoslovi, dushe moia, Gospoda
Bless the Lord, O my soul
N.O.N.
Introductory Psalm
Ps. 103[104]:1,24
SATB
First printed edition
No. 1 in vol. Sbornik No. 13, Vsenoshchnoe Bdenie, ed. by Kireev, 1915
2
Pa127
Blagoslovi, dushe moia, Gospoda
Bless the Lord, O my soul
Op. 54, No. 1
Russian Greek Chant
Ps. 102[103]:1-5, 8
SATB
PJu #32745 n.d.
First printed edition
4
Pa094
Blessed are they whom Thou hast chosen
Op. 46, No. 2
Communion Hymn for the Departed
Ps. 64[65]:5; 101[102]:13
SATB
PJu #31872 n.d.
First printed edition
3
Pa062
Hymns for the Elevation of the Cross
Op. 25
First printed edition
35
Pa032-037
3
No. 3 - Mnogokratnoe Gospodi pomilui
Multifold Lord, have mercy
Op. 25, No. 3
S(div)AT(div)B
6
Pa034
5
No. 5 - Ektenii posle Slavosloviia
Litanies after the Great Doxology
Op. 25, No. 5
SA(div)T(div)B
2
Pa036
Today is the springtime of souls
Op. 74, No. 1
Sacred concerto
Troparion from Kanon for St. Thomas Sunday
SATB
Supplement to Prikhodskoe chtenie, No. 15 (1915)
First printed edition
2
Pa118
It is truly meet
Op. 33, No. 3
Kievan Chant
S(div)A(div)T(div)B(div)
PJu #29664 1904
First printed edition
2
Pa047
Only begotten Son
Op. 33, No. 1
Znamenny Chant
PJu #29962 1904
First printed edition
Voice parts only.
4
Pa045
Let us who mystically represent the cherubim
N.O.N.
Cherubic Hymn
SATB
First printed edition
No. 12 in vol. Sbornik No. 12, Na Liturgii, ed. by Kireev, 1915
2
Pa126
Cherubic Hymn
Op. 24
Izhe kheruvimy
SSAATTBB (divisi)
PJu #29162 1904
First printed edition
13
Pa031
Cherubic Hymn
Op. 61, No. 1
Izhe kheruvimy
S(div)A(div)T(div)B(div)
PJu #33309 n.d.
First printed edition
5
Pa098