Boris Kotlyarov

Boris Yakovlevich Kotlyarov (Russian: Борис Яковлевич Котляров, 1913–1982) was a Soviet ethnomusicologist, violinist and pedagogue.[1] He was mainly known for his work on composers George Enescu and Alan Bush, as well as his extensive studies of the Lăutari violinist tradition of Romania and Moldova.[2]

Boris Yakovlevich Kotlyarov
Boris Kotlyarov, musicologist and pedagogue
Boris Kotlyarov, musicologist and pedagogue
Born24 November 1913
Yelisavetgrad, Russian Empire (now Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine)
Died28 March 1982 (aged 68)
NationalitySoviet
Occupation(s)Ethnomusicologist, violinist, pedagogue

Biography

Kotlyarov was born to a Jewish family in Yelisavetgrad, Russian Empire (now Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine) on 24 November 1913.[1] He was blinded at an early age. His family moved to Chișinău after the union of Bessarabia with Romania. He studied violin and composition at the Chișinău conservatory in the early 1930s.[1]

In 1933, he left Romania for Liège, Belgium, studying at the Royal Conservatory of Liège.[1][3] Upon the outbreak of World War II, he left Belgium for the United Kingdom, where he worked for the Soviet Embassy.[1] In 1948 he returned to the Soviet Union.[1]

In 1950, he moved back to Chișinău (then part of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic) and became an instructor at the conservatory there.[1] In 1974, he became a full professor there.[1]

Among the major topics of his academic studies was the Romanian composer George Enescu.[1][3][4] His biography of Enescu, translated into English and published in the United States in 1984, is considered to be the first full-length biography of the composer available in English.[5] He also corresponded regularly with the British composer Alan Bush and wrote about him in Russian.[6][7][8] And he wrote a number of works on the folk musics of Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, and Russia, and in particular on the Lăutari violin tradition.[1]

He died in Chișinău on 28 March 1982.

Selected works
  • Джордже Энеску (George Enescu, Muzyka, Moscow, 1965, reprinted 1970)[9]
  • Музыкальная жизнь дореволюционного Кишинёва (The musical life of pre-revolutionary Kishinev; Kartya moldovenyaska, Chișinău, 1967)[10]
  • Алан Буш (Alan Bush, Sovetskiy kompozitor, Moscow, 1981)[11]
  • Из истории музыкальных связей Молдавии, Украины и России (From the history of musical interaction between Moldavia, Ukraine, Russia; Shtiintsa, Chișinău, 1982)[10][12]
  • Молдавские лэутары и их искусство (The Moldavian lautari and their art; Sovetskiy kompozitor, Moscow, 1989)[10][13]
  • Enesco: His Life and Times (Paganiniana Publications, New Jersey, 1984)[14]

References
  1. Келдыш, Ю. В., ed. (1973). Музыкальная энциклопедия 3 (in Russian). Moscow: Сов. композитор. p. 15.
  2. Bunea, Diana (2020). "PAGES FROM THE HISTORY OF THE LĂUTAR ART FROM THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA: THE BALKANICA FOR ACCORDION BY PETRU BARANCIUC AND THE AFFINITY FOR BALKAN AND INTERNATIONAL MUSIC". Congresul International de Muzicologie = International Musicology Congress. 2020/1 (5): 57–65.
  3. Vardanean, Aliona (2020). "TRADITIONS OF FOREIGN MUSICOLOGY IN THE STUDY OF PIANO ART IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA". Studiul artelor și culturologie: Istorie, teorie, practică. Academia de Muzică, Teatru și Arte Plastice. 36 (1): 43–7.
  4. Katz, Mark (2006). The Violin A Research and Information Guide. Routledge. pp. 308–9. ISBN 9781135576967.
  5. Waterhouse, John C.G. (February 1993). "Reviews of Books". Music and Letters. 74 (1): 118–20. doi:10.1093/ml/74.1.118.
  6. Banks, Chris (2006). "Russian Music Archives in the British Library: An Overview". Fontes Artis Musicae. 53 (3): 197. ISSN 0015-6191. JSTOR 23510745.
  7. Craggs, Stewart R. (2013). Alan Bush A Source Book. Ashgate Publishing Group. p. 167. ISBN 9781409493754.
  8. "Alan Bush (1900-1995) - 'Time Remembered'". Alan Bush Music Trust. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  9. Джордже Энеску. OCLC 9528652. Retrieved 10 June 2022 – via WorldCat.
  10. Axionov, Vladimir; Mironenko, Yaroslav (2001). "Moldova". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.42274. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  11. Alan Bush. OCLC 8495435. Retrieved 10 June 2022 – via WorldCat.
  12. Iz istorii muzykalnykh sviazei Moldavii, Ukrainy, Rossii (in Russian). OCLC 11785405. Retrieved 10 June 2022 – via WorldCat.
  13. Moldavskie lėutary i ikh iskusstvo. OCLC 22542234. Retrieved 10 June 2022 – via WorldCat.
  14. Enesco. OCLC 11862886. Retrieved 10 June 2022 – via WorldCat.
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