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Vladimir Rebikov
REBIKOV, Vladimir Ivanovich (b. May 19 [May 31] 1866 – Krasnoyarsk; d. August 4, 1920 – Yalta) — after early studies in piano with his mother, and an unsuccessful application to the Moscow Conservatory, R. completed the Moscow University faculty of philology. He subsequently studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Nikolai Klenovsky, a pupil of Tchaikovsky, and then for three years in Berlin and Vienna. Returning to Russia, R. taught and gave concerts in various parts of the Russian Empire: Moscow, Odessa, Kishinev, Yalta, as well as in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, Florence and Paris. In 1909, he settled in Yalta, where he lived until his death in 1920.
As a composer, Rebikov may be regarded as an early Russian “modernist.” He explored such techniques as non-functional harmony, polytonality, the whole-tone scale, and fusions of music with movement (melomimicry) and with speech (melodeclamation—which can be likened to sprechstimme). In many of these areas he was ahead of Western European composers (Debussy, Schoenberg, Satie), who were to become firmly associated with the use of these devices. “C’etait moi, l’avant-garde!” he was known to exclaim.
Rebikov’s engagement with sacred choral music was relatively limited. His Liturgy and ten individual sacred choruses were composed, by the composer’s own admission, under the influence of Tchaikovsky, whose music he adored and emulated early in his career. A personal friendship with Alexander Kastalsky, reflected in a lively correspondence, may have encouraged him to compose his All-Night Vigil (1911), which is the most bold and unconventional piece of sacred music ever written on Orthodox liturgical texts.
(See Zvereva, Svetlana. “A. D. Kastal’skii i V. I. Rebikov ([Perepiska] Vstupitel’naia stat’ia)” [A. D. Kastalsky and V. I. Rebikov ([Correspondence]Introductory article)] in vol. Aleksandr Kastal’skii. Stat’i, materialy, vospominaniia, perepiska [Alexander Kastalsky. Articles, Materials, Memoirs, Correspondence], in ser. Russkaia dukhovnaia muzyka v dokumentax i materialakh, Tom V [Russian Sacred Music in Documents and Materials, Volume V], S. G. Zvereva, Compiler, editor, and author of introductory articles and commentaries, (M.: Znak, 2006), pp. 633-641.)
41 results found
The angel cried out
Op. 2
Hymn to the Mother of God at Paschaltide
SATB
PJu #34511 n.d.
First printed edition
3
Re017
The noble Joseph
Op. 7
Troparion for Holy Saturday
SATB and Tenor Solo
PJu #34516 n.d.
First printed edition
Defective original
3
Re022
Thy bridal chamber
Op. 6
Exaposteilarion for Holy Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
SATB
PJu #34515 n.d.
First printed edition
2
Re021
Liturgiia sv. Ioanna Zlatoustago
Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
S.Op. 1
Selected Hymns from the Divine Liturgy
PJu # 1899
First printed edition
48
Re001-015
1
No. 1 [Velikaia ekteniia] Posle vozglasheniia “Blagoslovenno tsarstvo”
[The Great Litany] After the exclamation “Blessed is the kingdom”
S(div)A(div)T(div)B(div)
3
Re001
5
No. 5 Posle chteniia Evangeliia [Sugubaia ekteniia]
After the reading of the Gospel [Augmented Litany]
S(div)A(div)T(div)B(div)
2
Re005
7
No. 7 Posle Kheruvimskoi pesni [Prositel’naia ekteniia]
After the Cherubic Hymn [Litany of Supplication]
SATB
1
Re007
10
No. 10 Posle vozglasheniia: Tvoia o Tvoikh [Tebe poem]
After the exclamation “Thine own of Thine own” [We hymn Thee]
SATB
2
Re010
11
No. 11 Posle slov: Izriadno o presviatei [Dostoino est’]
After the words: “Especially for the most holy” [It is truly meet]
S(div)A(div)TB(div)
3
Re011
12
No. 12 Posle vozglasheniia: I dazhd’ nam edinemi usty
After the exclamation: “And grant that with one mouth”
SATB
1
Re012
14
No. 14 Khvalite Gospoda s nebes. Prichastnyi stikh.
Praise the Lord from the heavens. The Communion Hymn
SATB
3
Re014
15
No. 15 Posle vozglasheniia: So strakhom Bozhiim
After the exclamation “With the fear of God“
S(div)A(div)T(div)B(div)
7
Re015
Now the powers of heaven No. 1
Op. 8
Cherubic Hymn from Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified Gifts
S(div)ATB
PJu #34517 n.d.
First printed edition
3
Re023
Now the powers of heaven No. 2
Op. 9
Cherubic Hymn from Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified Gifts
S(div)ATB
PJu #34518 n.d.
First printed edition
3
Re024
Beneath Thy mercy
Op. 4
Sacred concerto
Hymn to the Mother of God
SATB
PJu #34513 n.d.
First printed edition
2
Re019
With the Saints give rest
N.O.N.
Kontakion for the departed
SATB
PJu #35025 n.d.
First printed edition
2
Re025
Tropar' na Rozhdestvo Presv. Bogoroditsy
Troparion for the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God
Op. 5
Rozhdestvo Tvoe, Bogoroditse Devo
S(div)A(div)TB
PJu #34514 n.d.
First printed edition
2
Re020
Troparion for the Nativity of Christ
N.O.N.
Rozhdestvo Tvoe, Khriste Bozhe nash
SAT(div)B(div)
PJu #972 n.d.
First printed edition
Defective original
3
Re016