Yuri Kholopov

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Biography

After graduating from Ryazan Music Regional College he studied at the Moscow Conservatoire from 1949 to 1954 with Igor Sposobin and then with Semyon Bogatyrev, completing his master degree in 1960.

In 1963 he became a member of the Composers' Union of the USSR.

He presented his Ph. D. Degree thesis in 1975 with a monograph "Contemporary Aspects of Harmony in Music of Prokofiev" printed earlier in 1967, and the Doctorate Degree thesis in 1977, with a monograph "Essays in Contemporary Harmony" printed in 1974. His important research of life and music of Anton von Webern was printed in two volumes in 1973 and 1975 (in collaboration with his sister, Valentina Kholopova).

He taught at the Moscow Conservatoire from 1960, where he became a professor in 1983. His teaching was highly influential for several generations of musicians. He wrote 1023 works, practically on all the aspect of music theory and analysis, and published about 800 of them including dozens of monographs.

elected Books

* Contemporary Aspects of Prokofiev's Harmony [1959-1964] . Book. Moscow: Muzika, 1967
* Essays on Contemporary Harmony [1966-1967] . Moscow: Muzika, 1974; Budapest, 1978
* Anton Webern. Life and Work. Vol. 1 [1973] . Moscow: Soviet Composer, 1984; Berlin, 1989 (In German); Milano, 1990 (In Italian). Сo-author Valentina Kholopova
* Harmony. Theoretical Course. Moscow: Muzika, 1988; 2nd ed., SPb., 2003
* Edison Denisov [1989-1991] . Book. Moscow: Composer, 1993; Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1995 (In English). Co-author Valeria Tsenova
* Music of Webern. Vol. 2 [1975] . Book. Moscow: Composer, 1999. Co-author Valentina Kholopova
* Edison Denisov — the Russian Voice in European New Music. Book. Berlin: Verlag Ernst Kuhn, 2002 (In English). Co-author Valeria Tsenova
* Harmony. Practical Course. Textbook [1984-1986] . Moscow, 2003; 2nd ed rev. Moscow, 2005.
* Theory of Contemporary Composition / Ed. by V. Tsenova. Moscow, 2005.
* Musical Theoretical System of Heinrich Schenker. Moscow, 2006.
* Musical Theoretical Systems: Textbook / Ed. by T. Kyuregyan and V. Tsenova. Moscow, 2006.
* Introduction to Musical Form / Ed. by T. Kyuregyan and V. Tsenova. Moscow, 2006.

elected Articles

* "Philip Gershkovich’s search for the lost essence of music"; also: "List of Philip Gershkovich’s musicological research studies; List of Philip Gershkovich’s musical compositions; Some of Philip Gershkovich’s aphorisms". In: «Ex oriente...III» Eight Composers from the former USSR Philip Gershkovich, Boris Tishchenko, Leonid Grabovsky, Alexander Knaifel, Vladislav Shoot, Alexander Vustin, Alexander Raskatov, Sergei Pavlenko. Edited by Valeria Tsenova. English edition only. (studia slavica musicologica, Bd. 31) Verlag Ernst Kuhn – Berlin ISBN 3-928864-92-0

* "Russians in England: Dmitri Smirnov, Elena Firsova." Article, in: Music From the Former USSR. Issue 2. Moscow: Composer, 1996, pp. 255-303 (in Russian); also in «Ex oriente...I» Ten Composers from the former USSR. Viktor Suslin, Dmitry Smirnov, Arvo Pärt, Yury Kasparov, Galina Ustvolskaya, Nikolai Sidelnikov, Elena Firsova Vladimir Martynov, Andrei Eshpai, Boris Chaikovsky. Edited by Valeria Tsenova (studia slavica musicologica, Bd. 25), Verlag Ernst Kuhn – Berlin. ISBN 3-928864-84-X pp. 207-266 (in English)

Quotations

"The real composer’s creation, in my view, is the creation of fundamentally new music with respect to the level of the musical thinking of present day." (Yuri Kholopov)

External links

* [http://www.kholopov.ru/index2.html Yuri Kholopov’s site]
* [http://www.vek.de/ssm28.htm his book on Denisov at the Ernst Kuhn’s site]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,969010,00.html obituary by Gerard McBurney]
* [http://www.kultura-portal.ru/tree_new/cultpaper/article.jsp?number=403&crubric_id=100442&rubric_id=207&pub_id=330263 Interview (in Russian)]