Jevgenija Lisicina
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Jevgenija Lisicina also spelled Eugenia Lissitsyna, Jewgenia Lisitzina ' onMouseout='HidePop("11022")' href="/topics/Latvian_language">Latvian
: Jevgēnija Ļisicina, born on November 11, 1942 in Stupino
, Russia
) is a Latvian organist
of Russian
descent.
, near Moscow
, in a family descended from Tula
armourers, grew up in the Urals. Her father passionately wished a musician’s career for his daughter. She herself dreamed of playing organ music
, and a pipe organ seemed to her a mystical instrument for the chosen ones.
Having finished a school of music in Yekaterinburg
, Jevgenia admissed the piano faculty of the St. Petersburg Conservatory
, class of Prof. Vladimir Nielsen. Once organist Mark Shakhin took the new student with him to a concert in Riga
. There, Jevgenija heard the Riga Cathedral organ http://www.doms.lv and got acquainted with the patriarch of Latvian organists – Nikolajs Vanadziņš, her future professor. Jevgenia left piano studies in St. Petersburg and admissed to the Nikolajs Vanadziņš class at the Jāzeps Vītols
Latvian Academy of Music http://www.lmuza.lv.
Being a student, she performed more than 40 concerts as well as recorded a solo record, and was awarded the Tchaikovsky’s scholarship. In 1968 Jevgenija Lisicina became a laureate of Čiurlionis
International Competition of Organists http://www2.omnitel.net/ciurlionis/ (Vilnius
, Lithuania
).
After graduation from the Academy of Music Jevgenia performed more than thousand concerts worldwide.
In 1989/90 questioning of the readers of the major newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda
ranked two records by Jevgenija Lisicina in the top ten most popular classical music records in the Soviet Union
.
Thus, Jevgenija Lisicina linked her life with the mighty building of the Riga Dome Cathedral and its major organ where she has been cherishing the dream of playing in the Riga Cathedral all Bach’s works composed for the organ in one musical project. She succeeded at last in making her dreams come true in 1999–2001. She devoted the project to the 315th anniversary of Bach and the 800th anniversary of Riga. By the way, she does not think she belongs to any school of organ music: “For me there exists just one school – that of Johann Sebastian Bach”.
In 2002 Jevgenija Lisicina mastered another musical project devoted to the 110th anniversary of her teacher Prof. N.Vanadzins. There were 9 concert programs in the project including masterpieces by Bach, Vivaldi, Reger, Franck, the works by French, Russian and Latvian composers and Bach’s
Musikalisches Opferas
.
On April 27, 1995 Parliament of Latvia awarded Jevgenia Lisicina with the Latvian citizenship
for special merits and contribution to culture of Latvia http://www.saeima.lv/steno/st_955/st2704.html
of classical music for organ performance. Among them are:
Another transcriptions include classical music of J.S.Bach and L.V.Beethoven.
Latvian language
Latvian is the official state language of Latvia. It is also sometimes referred to as Lettish. There are about 1.4 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and about 150,000 abroad. The Latvian language has a relatively large number of non-native speakers, atypical for a small language...
: Jevgēnija Ļisicina, born on November 11, 1942 in Stupino
Stupino
Stupino is a town and the administrative center of Stupinsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Oka River south of Moscow. Population:...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
) is a Latvian organist
Organist
An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumental soloists...
of Russian
Russians
The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....
descent.
Biography
Jevgenija Lisicina was born in StupinoStupino
Stupino is a town and the administrative center of Stupinsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Oka River south of Moscow. Population:...
, near Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, in a family descended from Tula
Tula, Russia
Tula is an industrial city and the administrative center of Tula Oblast, Russia. It is located south of Moscow, on the Upa River. Population: -History:...
armourers, grew up in the Urals. Her father passionately wished a musician’s career for his daughter. She herself dreamed of playing organ music
Organ (music)
The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
, and a pipe organ seemed to her a mystical instrument for the chosen ones.
Having finished a school of music in Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,136 , making it Russia's...
, Jevgenia admissed the piano faculty of the St. Petersburg Conservatory
Saint Petersburg Conservatory
The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory is a music school in Saint Petersburg. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty members and 1,400 students.-History:...
, class of Prof. Vladimir Nielsen. Once organist Mark Shakhin took the new student with him to a concert in Riga
Riga
Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...
. There, Jevgenija heard the Riga Cathedral organ http://www.doms.lv and got acquainted with the patriarch of Latvian organists – Nikolajs Vanadziņš, her future professor. Jevgenia left piano studies in St. Petersburg and admissed to the Nikolajs Vanadziņš class at the Jāzeps Vītols
Jazeps Vitols
-Biography:Vītols, the son of a schoolteacher, began his studies in composition in 1880 at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. After graduating in 1886, he remained at the Conservatory to teach composition and reached the rank of Professor in 1901. His pupils there...
Latvian Academy of Music http://www.lmuza.lv.
Being a student, she performed more than 40 concerts as well as recorded a solo record, and was awarded the Tchaikovsky’s scholarship. In 1968 Jevgenija Lisicina became a laureate of Čiurlionis
Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis , also known as M. K. Čiurlionis was a Lithuanian painter and composer. Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and art nouveau and was representative of the fin de siècle epoch. During his short life he composed about 250 pieces of music and created about 300 paintings...
International Competition of Organists http://www2.omnitel.net/ciurlionis/ (Vilnius
Vilnius
Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County...
, Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
).
After graduation from the Academy of Music Jevgenia performed more than thousand concerts worldwide.
In 1989/90 questioning of the readers of the major newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Komsomolskaya Pravda is a daily Russian tabloid newspaper, founded on March 13th, 1925. It is published by "Izdatelsky Dom Komsomolskaya Pravda" .- History :...
ranked two records by Jevgenija Lisicina in the top ten most popular classical music records in the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
.
Thus, Jevgenija Lisicina linked her life with the mighty building of the Riga Dome Cathedral and its major organ where she has been cherishing the dream of playing in the Riga Cathedral all Bach’s works composed for the organ in one musical project. She succeeded at last in making her dreams come true in 1999–2001. She devoted the project to the 315th anniversary of Bach and the 800th anniversary of Riga. By the way, she does not think she belongs to any school of organ music: “For me there exists just one school – that of Johann Sebastian Bach”.
In 2002 Jevgenija Lisicina mastered another musical project devoted to the 110th anniversary of her teacher Prof. N.Vanadzins. There were 9 concert programs in the project including masterpieces by Bach, Vivaldi, Reger, Franck, the works by French, Russian and Latvian composers and Bach’s
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
Musikalisches Opferas
The Musical Offering
The Musical Offering , BWV 1079, is a collection of canons and fugues and other pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, all based on a single musical theme given to him by Frederick II of Prussia , to whom they are dedicated...
.
On April 27, 1995 Parliament of Latvia awarded Jevgenia Lisicina with the Latvian citizenship
Citizenship
Citizenship is the state of being a citizen of a particular social, political, national, or human resource community. Citizenship status, under social contract theory, carries with it both rights and responsibilities...
for special merits and contribution to culture of Latvia http://www.saeima.lv/steno/st_955/st2704.html
Awards
- Laureate of ČiurlionisMikalojus Konstantinas CiurlionisMikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis , also known as M. K. Čiurlionis was a Lithuanian painter and composer. Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and art nouveau and was representative of the fin de siècle epoch. During his short life he composed about 250 pieces of music and created about 300 paintings...
International Competition of Organists (LithuaniaLithuaniaLithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
, 1968)http://www2.omnitel.net/ciurlionis/.
Works
Jevgenija Lisicina is the author of several transcriptionsTranscription (music)
In music, transcription can mean notating a piece or a sound which was previously unnotated, as, for example, an improvised jazz solo. Further examples include ethnomusicological notation of oral traditions of folk music, such as Béla Bartók's and Ralph Vaughan Williams' collections of the national...
of classical music for organ performance. Among them are:
- Antonio VivaldiAntonio VivaldiAntonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...
- Gloria for choir and orchestra - Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons for organ
- Modest MussorgskyModest MussorgskyModest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
- Pictures from Exhibition for organ and piano - Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures from Exhibition for organ and percussions
- Alfred SchnittkeAlfred SchnittkeAlfred Schnittke ; November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a Russian and Soviet composer. Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich. He developed a polystylistic technique in works such as the epic First Symphony and First Concerto Grosso...
- Ancient Suite for organ - Jāzeps VītolsJazeps Vitols-Biography:Vītols, the son of a schoolteacher, began his studies in composition in 1880 at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. After graduating in 1886, he remained at the Conservatory to teach composition and reached the rank of Professor in 1901. His pupils there...
- The Bard of Beverina for organ - Francis PoulencFrancis PoulencFrancis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and a member of the French group Les six. He composed solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music...
- Concerto en sol mineur for organ and piano - Samuel BarberSamuel BarberSamuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music...
- Adagio for Strings for organ - Edvard GriegEdvard GriegEdvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...
- Introduction for “Peer Gynt” for organ and piano - Maurice RavelMaurice RavelJoseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
- Pavana for organ and piano
Another transcriptions include classical music of J.S.Bach and L.V.Beethoven.
Major projects
- 1999–2001 The 16 concert project at the Riga Cathedral "The Entire Bach" devoted to the 315th anniversary of Bach and the 800-year anniversary of Riga. Concert programmes included all masterpieces by Johan Sebastian Bach ever written for pipe organ.
- 2002 The nine concert project at the Riga Cathedral dedicated to the 110th anniversary of Prof. N.Vanadzins. Concert programmes included masterpieces by Bach, Vivaldi, Reger, Franck, the works by French, Russian and Latvian composers and Bach’sJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
Musikalisches OpferasThe Musical OfferingThe Musical Offering , BWV 1079, is a collection of canons and fugues and other pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, all based on a single musical theme given to him by Frederick II of Prussia , to whom they are dedicated...
.
Recordings
From early in career Jevgenija Lisicina has recorded dozens of organ music solo recordings in the Riga Dom Cathedral (Latvia). Today her recordings count twenty+ long-playing records and eight CDs.See also
- List of Russians
- List of Latvians
- List of organ composers
- List of organists
- Organ recitalOrgan recitalAn organ recital is a concert at which music specially written for the organ is played.The music played at such recitals was typically written for pipe organ, which includes church organs, and symphonic organs...
- Organ repertoireOrgan repertoireThe organ repertoire consists of music written for the organ. Because it is one of the oldest musical instruments in existence, written organ repertoire spans a time period almost as long as that of written music itself. The organ's solo repertoire is among the largest for any musical instrument...
- OrganistOrganistAn organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumental soloists...
- Pipe organPipe organThe pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass...