Yuri Sakhnovsky

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Sergeevich and the family name is Sakhnovsky.

Yuri Sergeevich Sakhnovsky Юрий Сергеевич Сахновский
Born	(1866-09-25)September 25, 1866 Gorodishchi, Russian Empire (present-day Sverdlovsky, Russia)
Died	April 2, 1930(1930-04-02) (aged 63) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (present-day Russia)
Occupation(s)	Composer, conductor, music critic

Yuri Sergeevich Sakhnovsky[a] (September 25, 1866 – April 2, 1930)[1] was a Russian composer, conductor, and music critic.[2]

Sakhnovsky came from a well-off family and was known as a "bon vivant (he weighed 260.lbs) handsome, brilliant and wealthy".[3]

Sakhnovsky studied chant with Stepan Vasilevich Smolensky, to whom Sergei Rachmaninoff dedicated his Vespers, though Sakhnovsky later turned to a more "lush" style of choral writing.[4] While a student Sakhnovsky took in his eight-year younger fellow student Rachmaninoff during the difficult winter when it seemed he was suffering from malaria.

In later life Sakhnovsky was active more as a critic than a composer. Particularly notorious were his attacks on Alexander Scriabin's music as "decadent" from 1911-1914.

His song "The Blacksmith" was recorded by Maxim Mikhailov and his song "The Clock" was recorded by Vladimir Rosing.

Notes

1. Russian: Юрий Сергеевич Сахновский, romanized: Yury Sergeyevich Sakhnovsky

References and Sources

1. "Юрий Сергеевич Сахновский". Специальное радио. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
2. ГЦММК, ф. 82, 838 ед. хр., 1889-1930.
3. Bowers, Faubion. Scriabin, a biography: p. 254.
4. Strimple, Nick. Choral Music in the Twentieth Century: p. 141.

• Bowers, Faubion (1996). Scriabin, a Biography. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-28897-0. OCLC 33405309.
• Strimple, Nick (2003). Choral Music in the Twentieth Century. Amadeus. ISBN 978-1-57467-074-5.