Evstignej Ipatovič Fomin (1761-1800)
Work: Suite 'Orpheus' (1792)
Performers: Chamber ensemble 'Baroque'
Further info: Russian Music Of The 18th Century
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Russian composer. Orphaned at an early age, he was sent by his uncle to
the Academy of the Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, where he was to be
trained as an architect. In 1776, however, he decided to concentrate on
music, taking harpsichord lessons from Matteo Bomi and composition from
Hermann Raupach and Blasius Sartori. Sartori encouraged him to further
his education in Italy, and in 1782 he arrived in Bologna where he
became a student of Padre Giovanni Battista Martini and Stanislao
Mattei. Within three years he had been elected to the prestigious
Accademia filarmonica, around the same time as he returned to St.
Petersburg at the request of Catherine II, who wished him to compose
Russian operas. He also taught at the theatre school. His most famous
work was a Russian version of the Orpheus legend, Orfey i Evridika,
produced in 1792. An indication of his dramatic style of musical
composition that includes Russian folk elements can be found in his
choruses to the play Yuropolk i Olega of 1798. He is said to have
composed some 30 operas, as well as a pair of choral concertos in Old
Church Slavonic.
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