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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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Liturgiia Sv. Ioanna Zlatousta kharaktera narodnogo
The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in a folk style
Op. 21
SSA; TTB
PJu #33954; P.1160 S. 1902.
First printed edition
Defective original
36
Pa030
Liturgiia Sv. Ioanna Zlatousta po napevam Pridvornogo obikhoda
The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom according to melodies used at the Imperial Court
Op. 20
SSA; TTB
PJu #33953; P.1160 S. 1902.
First printed edition
37
Pa029
Liturgiia Sv. Ioanna Zlatoustago
Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Op. 18
First printed edition
90
Pa004-027
2
[No. 1a] - Antifon i Malaia ekteniia
[First] Antiphon and Little Litany
Op. 18, No. 1a
SATB
2
Pa005
5
No. 4 - Priidite poklonimsia i Gospodi, spasi
Come, let us worship and O Lord, save
Op. 18, No. 4
Matthew 5:3-12
SATB
2
Pa008
10
No. 9 - Vozglasy posle Apostola i k Evangeliiu; Ektenii
Responses for the Epistle and Gospel readings; Litanies
Op. 18, No. 9
S(div)A(div)T(div)B(div)
8
Pa013
17
No. 16 - I vsekh i vsia... Ekteniia prositel'naia
And all mankind; Litany of Supplication
Op. 18, No. 16
SA(div)TB
2
Pa020
20
No. 19 - Blagosloven griadyi; Telo Khristovo; Videkhom svet
Blessed is He that comes. Receive the Body of Christ
Op. 18, No. 19
S(div)AT(div)B(div)
2
Pa023
21
No. 20 - Da ispolniatsia usta nasha
Let our mouths be filled
Op. 18, No. 20
S(div)A(div)T(div)B(div)
2
Pa024
Liturgiia Sv. Ioanna Zlatoustago. Imperial Court Chant.
Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. Imperial Court Chant. For small choir.
Op. 26
SATB
PJu #36116
First printed edition
58
Pa037a