Dmytro Stepanovych Bortniansky (Ukrainian: Дмитро Степанович Бортнянський, Dmitro Stepanovych Bortnians’kyi; Russian: Дмитрий Степанович Бортнянский, Dmitrij Stepanovič Bortnjanskij; also referred to as Dmitry or Dmitri Bortnyansky; 1751-1825) was a Ukrainian composer in Imperial Russia. He composed in many different musical styles, including choral compositions in French, Italian, Latin, German, Slavonic and Russian. Dmytro Bortniansky Source: http://www. ... Events Adam Smith is appointed professor of logic at the University of Glasgow March 25 - For the last time, New Years Day is legally on March 25 in England and Wales. ... Opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway 1825 (MDCCCXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Page from the Spiridon Psalter in Church Slavonic. ...

Student

Dmytro Bortniansky was born on October 28, 1751 in the city of Hlukhiv in present-day Ukraine (officially referred to as "Glukhov" at the time, as part of the Russian Empire). At the age of seven, his prodigious talent at the local church choir afforded him the opportunity to go the capital of the empire and sing with the Imperial Chapel Choir in St. Petersburg. There he studied music and composition under the director of the Imperial Chapel Choir, the Italian master Baldassare Galuppi, with whom a bond was developed. When Galuppi left for Italy in 1769, Bortniansky went with him. In Italy, he gained considerable success composing operas: Creonte (1776) and Alcide (1778) in Venice, and Quinto Fabio (1779) at Modena. He also composed sacred works in Latin and German, both a capella and with orchestral accompaniment (including an Ave Maria for two voices and orchestra). October 28 is the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 64 days remaining. ... Hlukhiv, Old East Slavic and Russian Glukhov, is a historic city in Sumy region of Ukraine, just south from the Russian border. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and... Baldassare Galuppi (October 18, 1706 - January 3, 1785) was a Venetian composer noted for his operas, and particularly opera buffa. ... 1769 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Teatro alla Scala in Milan. ... Year 1776 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1778 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venexia) is the capital of region Veneto, and has a population of 271,663 (census estimate January 1, 2004). ... 1779 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Modena (Mòdna in Modenese dialect) is a city and a province on the south side of the Po valley, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. ... A cappella music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. ... A philharmonic orchestra An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble, usually a fairly large instrumental ensemble with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. ... Ave Maria (Latin: Hail, Maria or Hail, Mary) can refer to: The Hail Mary or Ave Maria, a prayer; also the time of day in Italy when the church bells toll. ...

Master

Bortniansky returned to the court at St. Petersburg in 1779 and flourished creatively. He composed at least four more operas (all in French, with libretti by Franz-Hermann Lafermière): Le Faucon (1786), Le Fete du Seigneur (1786), Don Carlos (1786), and Le Fils-Rival ou La Moderne Stratonice (1787). Bortniansky wrote a number of instrumental works at this time, including piano sonatas and a piano quintet with harp, and a cycle of French songs. He also composed liturgical music for the Russian Orthodox Church, combining Eastern and Western European the styles of sacred music, incorporating the polyphony he learned in Italy; some works were polychoral, using a style descended from the Venetian polychoral technique of the Gabrielis. A libretto is the complete body of words used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, musical, and ballet. ... 1786 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1787 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... A grand piano, with the lid up. ... Sonata (From Latin and Italian sonare, to sound), in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to cantata (Latin cantare, to sing), a piece sung. ... The harp is a stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicular to the soundboard. ... The word leitourgia is derived from the two Greek words, leos and ergon. Leos, meaning the people of God and Ergon meaning the work. ... The Russian Orthodox Church (Russian: ), also known as the Orthodox Christian Church of Russia, is that body of Christians who are united under the Patriarch of Moscow, who in turn is in communion with the other patriarchs and primates of the Eastern Orthodox Church. ... Polyphony is a musical texture consisting of two or more independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice (monophony) or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony). ... This article is about the musical term. ...

After a while, Bortniansky's genius proved too great to ignore, and in 1796 he was appointed Director of the Imperial Chapel Choir, the first director not to have been imported from outside of the Russian Empire. With such a great instrument at his disposal, he produced scores upon scores of compositions, including over 100 religious works, sacred concertos (35 for four-part mixed choir, 10 for double choruses), cantatas, and hymns. Year 1796 (MDCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... The term concerto (plural is concerti or concertos) usually refers to a musical work in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra. ... A cantata (Italian, sung) is a vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement. ... A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of praise, adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a god or other religiously significant figure. ...

Dmytro Bortniansky died in St. Petersburg on October 10, 1825, and is interred at Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg. October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in leap years). ... View of the monastery in the early 19th century Alexander Nevsky Monastery was founded by Peter the Great in 1710 at the southern end of the Nevsky Prospect in St Petersburg to house the relics of Alexander Nevsky, patron saint of the newly-founded Russian capital. ...

Musical legacy

In 1882, Pyotr Tchaikovsky edited the liturgical works of Bortniansky, which were published in ten volumes. While Dmytro Bortniansky's operas and instrumental compositions are on par with those of the great classical composers, it is his sacred choral work that is performed most often today. This vast body of work remains central not only to understanding 18th century Russian sacred music, but also served as inspiration to his fellow Ukrainian composers in the 19th century. Year 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. ... Tchaikovsky redirects here. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The tune he wrote for a hymn popular with freemasons, Коль славен (Kol slaven), travelled to English speaking countries and came to be known by the names Russia, St. Petersburg or Wells; in Germany, the song was paired with a text by Gerhard Tersteegen, and became a well-known chorale and ­traditional closing piece to the military ritual Großer Zapfenstreich (the Ceremonial Tattoo). Prior to the October revolution in 1917, the tune was played by the Moscow Kremlin carillon every day at midday. American Square & Compasses Freemasonry is a worldwide fraternal organization. ... Gerhard Tersteegen (November 25, 1697 - April 3, 1769), a German religious writer, born at Mors, at that time the capital of a countship belonging to the house of Orange-Nassau (it fell to Prussia in 1702), which formed a Protestant enclave in the midst of a Catholic country. ... The “Großer Zapfenstreich” (litterally translated “Grand Tattoo”; US: “Grand Taps“) is the most important ceremonial act in the German federal forces (Bundeswehr). ... Red October redirects here. ... Year 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... The Moscow Kremlin, as seen from the Balchug. ... The Netherlands Carillon in Arlington, Virginia, USA. A carillon is a musical instrument composed of at least 23 cup-shaped bells played from a baton keyboard using fists and feet (such an instrument with fewer than this number of bells is known as a chime). ...

James Blish, who novelized many episodes of the original series of Star Trek, noted in one story, Whom Gods Destroy, that Bortniansky's Ich bete an die Macht der Liebe was the theme "to which all [Starfleet] Academy classes marched to their graduation." James Benjamin Blish (East Orange, New Jersey, May 23, 1921 - Henley-on-Thames, July 29, 1975) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. ... The current Star Trek franchise logo Star Trek is an epic American science fiction franchise. ... It is proposed that this article be deleted, because of the following concern: This article is not encyclopedic in nature; it is an amateur band biography. ...

Works

Operas

• Creonte (1776 Venice)
• Alcide (1778 Venice)
• Quinto Fabio (1779 Modena)
• Le Faucon (1786 St Petersburg in French, with libretto by Franz-Hermann Lafermière)
• Le Fete du Seigneur (1786 St Petersburg in French, with libretto by Franz-Hermann Lafermière)
• Don Carlos (Bortnyansky) (1786 St Petersburg in French, with libretto by Franz-Hermann Lafermière)
• Le Fils-Rival ou La Moderne Stratonice (1787 St Petersburg in French, with libretto by Franz-Hermann Lafermière)

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Choruses

• Da ispravitsia molitva moia ("Let My Prayer Arise") no. 2.
• Khiruvimskaia pesn (Cherubic Hymn) no. 7
• Concerto No. 24: Vozvedokh ochi moyi v gory ("I Lift Up My Eyes to the Mountains")
• Concerto No. 27: Glasom moim ko Gospodu vozzvakh ("With My Voice I Cried Out to the Lord")
• Concerto No. 32: Skazhi mi, Gospodi, konchinu moyu ("Lord, Make Me to Know My End")

External links

• Bortniansky, Dmitri Stepanovich in Columbia Encyclopedia
• Bortniansky: Main biography in Russian by Konstantin Kovalev (Константин Ковалев) - eng. and All around Dmitry Bortniansky + Usual mistakes in the biography of the composer (present time) - eng.
• Bortniansky, Dmytro in Encyclopedia of Ukraine
• Bortniansky, Dmitri Stepanovich in The Cyber Hymnal
• Bortniansky, Dmitri Stepanovich in Karadar Classical Music
• Musicus Bortnianskii, a chamber choir out of Toronto which specializes in Bortniansky performance and research
• Free scores by Dmytro Bortniansky in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)