Yuri Sergeevich Sakhnovsky (Russian: Ю́рий Серге́евич Сахно́вский) (1866–1930) was a Russian composer, conductor and music critic.[1]

Sakhnovsky came from a well-off family and was known as a "bon vivant (he weighed 260.lbs) handsome, brilliant and wealthy".[2]

Sakhnovsky studied chant with Stepan Vasilevich Smolensky, to whom Sergei Rachmaninoff dedicated his Vespers, though Sakhnovsky later turned to a more "lush" style of choral writing.[3] While a student Sakhnovsky took in his eight-year younger fellow student Rachmaninoff during the difficult winter when it seemed he was suffering from malaria.

In later life Sakhnovsky was active more as a critic than a composer. Particularly notorious were his attacks on Alexander Scriabin's music as "decadent" from 1911-1914.

His song "The Blacksmith" was recorded by Maxim Mikhailov and his song "The Clock" was recorded by Vladimir Rosing.

References and Sources

  1. ↑ ГЦММК, ф. 82, 838 ед. хр., 1889-1930.
  2. ↑ Bowers, Faubion. Scriabin, a biography: p. 254.
  3. ↑ Strimple, Nick. Choral Music in the Twentieth Century: p. 141.
  • Bowers, Faubion (1996). Scriabin, a Biography. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-28897-0. OCLC 33405309.
  • Strimple, Nick (2003). Choral Music in the Twentieth Century. Amadeus. ISBN 978-1-57467-074-5.
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