Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

Background

Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov was born on the 19th of November, 1859 in Gatchina, Russia.

Education

Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov studied under Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov at the St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1872 to 1875.

Career

In 1882, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov became a conductor of the symphony orchestra and director of the music school in Tiflis (now Tbilisi), Georgia. He taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1893 to 1906, served as its director from 1906 to 1922, and was a conductor of the Mamontova Opera from 1899 to 1906. In 1924-25, he reorganized the Georgian State Conservatory, formerly the Tbilisi School. After 1925 he was conductor at the Bolshoi Theatre.

Mikhail was a composer of several operas and other musical works, mostly with Caucasian themes, including the suite Caucasian Sketches in 1895, Armenian Rhapsody in 1909, and a symphonic poem after a poem by Mikhail Lermontov, Mtsyri in 1922.

Achievements

• Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov was a distinguished composer of orchestral works and operas, of which the most popular were influenced by Caucasian and Georgian folk music. He was very influential in the Soviet music world in the 1920s and 1930s.

Connections

Mikhail was married to Varvara Mikhailovna Ippolitova-Ivanova. Thjey had a daughter, Tatiana.

Wife:

Varvara Mikhailovna Ippolitova-Ivanova

Daughter:

Tatiana Mikhailovna Ippolitova-Ivanova

References

• Favorite Russian Spectaculars: Polovetsian Dances
  1990
• Ippolitov-Ivanov: Mtsiri, Armenian Rhapsody, Caucasian Sketches
  2011
• Ippolitov- Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches, Turkish Fragments
  1997
• Fedoseyev Conducts Ippolitov-Ivanov, Borodin & Mussorgsky
  1995
• Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches
  1995
• Ippolitov-Ivanov: Spring Overture / Three Musical Taxbleaux
  1994