Stepan Ivanovich Davydov (russian: Степа́н Ива́нович Давы́дов, uk, Степа́н Іва́нович Давидів born: January 12

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1777 – died: May 21

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1825

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composer and singer. He was born in

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in the Russian Empire (present-day

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Biography

When the principal choirboy of the Imperial Court

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, he drew the attention of the Empress

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, who consigned him to the care of the Italian composer Giuseppe Sarti (1729–1802). Davydov wrote and published a complete four-part liturgy and 13 Spiritual Choral Concerti, three of which were written for a double chorus. In the field of secular music Davydov participated in the composing of opera tetralogy ''

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'' (together with Ferdinand Kauer and

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, 1803–1807, providing the additional music for the 1st, 3rd and 4th parts). He also wrote 10

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s, various divertissements, a series of choruses to the tragedy ''Amboar and Aurungzeb'' (1814), a concert overture and numerous other works. He held the post of the

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of the Imperial Theatres in St Petersburg (1806–1810). From 1810 he taught at the Theatrical School in

Operas

*''Dneprovskaja rusalka'' (''Днепровская русалка –

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'', Russian libretto by Nikolai Krasnopolsky after Karl Friedrich Hensler, '' Das Donauweibchen''), opera in three acts, November 7

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1803, St Petersburg,

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with Music by Ferdinand Kauer and the additional three numbers composed by Davydov. *''Lesta, dneprovskaja rusalka'' (''Леста, днепровская русалка – Lesta, a Mermaid of the Dnepr'', comic opera in three acts, November 6

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1805, St Petersburg,

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'', libretto by Prince Alexander Shakhovskoy comic

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in 3 acts, September 22

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St Petersburg,

) music by Davydov,

and

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. *''Lukashka, ili Svjatochnyj vecher'' (Лукашка или Святочный вечер – Lukashka or Christmas Eve), comic opera in one act (January 26

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1816,

Ballets

*''Uvenchaannaya blagost’'' (Увенчанная благость - The Crowned Goodness, November 6 ctober 251801, St Petersburg, Hermitage) *''Torzhestvo blagodarnosti'' (Жертвоприношение благодарности - September 11

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1802, St Petersburg,

) *''Graf Kastelli, ili Prestupnyi brat'' (Music by Davydov, Giuseppe Sarti and

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, October 12

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1804, St Petersburg) *''Przadnik žatvy'' (May 9

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1823

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Bibliography

* �шаков В. Русский театр. Днепровская русалка..., "Московский телеграф", 1829, .No 23; *Рабинович А. С., Русская опера до Глинки, М., 1948; *Грачев П. В., С. И. Давыдов, в кн.: Очерки по истории русской музыки. 1790–1825, Л., 1956.

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