Description

ALEXANDER MOGILEVSKY (ALEXANDRE MOGUILEWSKY) (ODESSA, 27 JANUARY, 1885 – TOKYO, 7 MARCH, 1953)

 

 

 

 

Born in Odessa, he began playing the violin at the age of six, and in 1898 moved to Moscow to study at the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied under Nikolai Sokolovsky and Jan Hřímalý, and later graduated at the top of his class. In January 1900, he entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied under Leopold Auer. In 1909, he founded the Mogilevsky String Quartet.

He was a student, colleague and close friend of Scriabin, and performed with him on Sergei Koussevitzky ‘s 1910 concert tour. In 1910, he was made head professor of violin at the Moscow Philharmonic School of Music and Drama, and from 1919 to 1921 he was professor at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1921, he joined the Stradivarius String Quartet.

He became acquainted with the pianist Nadezhda Nikolaevna de Beauharnais Leuchtenberg (1898-1962) during a concert tour, and married her in 1929 (they divorced in 1938). The tour began in the Far East, with stops in Singapore, the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), and Japan.

From March to December 1927, he was a lecturer at the Tokyo College of Music (now the Kunitachi College of Music).

He returned to Japan in 1930 and became a teacher at the Imperial Music School, and from 1932 he taught at the Tokyo Music School (now the Tokyo University of the Arts). His students included Suzuki Shinichi and Suwa Nejiko. In April 1938, he served as a judge for the 6th Japan Music Competition.After his wife eloped with a younger man, he remarried a Japanese housekeeper. He evacuated to Karuizawa during World War II. He died in Tokyo in 1953. He is buried in Kodaira Cemetery.

His ex-wife, the pianist Nadezhda (1898-1962), was a direct descendant of Empress Josephine of France and the second daughter of Nikolai, Duke of Leuchtenberg, of the House of Beauharnais. He had two children with her: Michael, born in Indonesia in 1929 during a concert tour, and Maximilian, born in Karuizawa, Japan in 1935.

The pianist Yevgeny Mogilevsky is his grandson.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

1. Serenade (Drigo) 608 A (3640) Polydor, 1928

2. Spanish Dance (Granados) 1084 B (3651) Polydor

3. Song of the Volga Boatman 680 B (3635) Polydor

4. Air on the G String (Bach) 1024 B (3634) Polydor

5. Menuetto in G (Beethoven) 1084 A (3649) Polydor

6. Traumerei (Schumann) 1024 A (3639) Polydor

7. Humoresque (Dvorak) 608 B (3650) Polydor

8. Indian Lament (Dvorak) 680 A (3645) Polydor

9. Sonata No. 5 in F major Op. 24 Spring (Beethoven) I. Allegro with Leonid Kreutzer (piano)

10. Sonata No. 5 in F major Op. 24 Spring (Beethoven) II. Adagio molto espressivo with Leonid Kreutzer (piano)

11. Sonata No. 5 in F major Op. 24 Spring (Beethoven) III. Scherzo Allegro molto with Leonid Kreutzer (piano)

12. Sonata No. 5 in F major Op. 24 Spring (Beethoven) IV. Rondo Allegro ma non troppo with Leonid Kreutzer (piano) 5027/9 (4477, 79-83) Polydor

13. Sonata No.12 in D minor La Folia (Corelli) Nadine Reuchtenberg (piano) JW264-5 M55246-8 Columbia

14. Suite Populaire Espagnole, for violin & piano (arr. from “Popular Spanish Songs” by Paul Kochanski) Nadine Reuchtenberg (piano) J5631-2 JTW178-181 Columbia

El Paño Moruno

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