Ivan Shishov - Hoop (Серсо), n. 9 from the collection 12 Pièces pour jeunes pianistes

Ivan Petrovich Shishov (Russian: Иван Петрович Шишов; ISO-9: Ivan Petrovič Šišov) was a Soviet composer, teacher and music critic. He was born on September 26 (October 8), 1888 in Novocherkassk, Russian Empire, in the family of a military paramedic, studied in music and drama classes at the local Music and Drama Society. A graduate of the Novocherkassk gymnasium, in 1914 he graduated from the Music and Drama School of the Moscow Philharmonic Society in the composition class of N. A. Koreshchenko, also studied with A. D. Kastalsky (polyphony) and V. S. Kalinnikov (choir). In addition, he took lessons from E. K. Rozenov and G. E. Konus. In 1916 he taught music at the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages and the Moscow People's Conservatory. In 1922-1929 he was a researcher at the State Institute of Musical Science and the State Academy of Artistic Sciences. In 1925-1931 he taught melody at the Moscow Conservatory, and in 1927 Shishov's article "On the Analysis of Melodic Structure" was published in the journal "Musical Education", which was the first special work on melody in Soviet musicology. In 1929, the composer's opera "The Dumb Artist" (directed by A. Petrovsky) was staged at the Bolshoi Theater. According to Soviet critics, the music of the opera "fell out of the social and satirical plan of the performance... and completely ignored the era". Critic Lev Anninsky writes about the performance as follows: "According to the reviewers, the performance wittily combined the Nicholas Empire style and Russian Baroque with the bourgeois cover, thus revealing the "unity" of the nobility and merchants with the tsarist power... Performance... withstood 21 performances. It went down in the history of Soviet art as a not very successful, but in principle healthy attempt to continue the line of "Russian everyday opera" (later they would say: realistic) and to overcome fantasy and Wagnerism (later they would say: formalism)". In 1930-1947 I. P. Shishov worked as editor and representative of the Musgiz Advisory Commission, including was a member of the editorial board of the academic edition of the collection of essays by P. I. Tchaikovsky. Died on 6 February 1947 in Moscow, USSR. Buried in Moscow at the Donskoy cemetery. The image before (and after) the music is Dance (1913) by David Shterenberg, chosen by D. T. for this video. #music #classicalmusic #piano #intermediatelevel #russiancomposers #sovietcomposers #modernmusic