Boris Fitinhof-Schell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Boris Fitinhof-Schell

Russian composer

Date of Birth: 14-Aug-1829

Place of Birth: Morshansk, Tambov Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 13-Sep-1901

Profession: composer, military personnel

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Boris Fitinhof-Schell

  • Baron Boris Alexandrovich Fitinhoff-Schell (Russian: ????? ????????????? ????????-????, tr.
  • Boris Aleksandrovic Fitingof-Å el’) (1829? in Morshansk – 8 October [O.S.
  • 25 September] 1901 in St.
  • Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian composer of Baltic German descent. Fitinhoff-Schell was born to Baltic German noble Baron Alexander Otto von Vietinghoff genannt Scheel and Yelisevet Pavlovna Yazykova.
  • The Vietinghoff family, was considered part of the Uradel (or old nobility), the family was of Westphalian origin, originating in Essen.
  • The Baltic branch had moved to the Baltics since the 14th Century.
  • Even thought Boris’ father was a Lutheran, he was baptised an Orthodox, because his mother was a Russian. Fitinhoff-Schell was trained at the Moscow Conservatory under Field and Henselt, and was a classmate of Tchaikovsky's.
  • His most noted work are the ballets The Haarlem Tulip (1887) and Cinderella (1893), composed for the Imperial Ballet of St.
  • Petersburg.
  • He also scored four operas for the St.
  • Petersburg Imperial Opera, which were commissioned by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, director of the Imperial Theatres.
  • His Wedding March, scored especially for the wedding of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna is still occasionally heard. Fitinhoff-Schell is also noted for his Fantastic Overture to his opera Mazeppa (1859, libretto by Prince Grigory Kugushev), in which whole-tone scales were profusely employed.
  • Franz Liszt greatly appreciated this piece, describing its effect as " ...
  • terrifying to all long and protruding ears." Liszt himself made use of the whole-tone scale in his Divina Commedia, illustrating the Inferno, and he used it systematically in his posthumously published organ and late piano pieces.

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