Nabokov, Nicolas [Nikolay]
Nelsova [Katznelson], Zara
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- Nembri, Damianus [Octavianus]
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Nelsova [Katznelson], Zara(b Winnipeg, 23 Dec 1918). American cellist of Canadian birth and Russian parentage. She began lessons in early childhood and moved with her family to London, where she studied at the London School of Violoncello and privately with its principal, Herbert Walenn. She was heard by Barbirolli and introduced by him to Casals, from whom she received additional lessons. In 1932 she gave a London début recital and appeared as a soloist with Sargent and the LSO, playing Lalo’s Concerto. Later she joined her two older sisters, a violinist and a pianist, and as the Canadian Trio they toured extensively in Britain, Australia and South Africa. She made her American début in 1942 at Town Hall, New York. From 1949 she was based in London, and introduced to Britain new works by Barber, Hindemith, Shostakovich and Bloch, who dedicated to her his three suites for unaccompanied cello; later, she gave the première of the concerto by Hugh Wood at the 1969 Promenade Concerts. In 1955 she took American citizenship, and in 1963 married the pianist Grant Johannesen, with whom she gave numerous duo recitals. In 1966 she became the first American cellist to tour the USSR. Although noted as an interpreter of the contemporary cello repertory, Nelsova also excelled in Romantic works, compensating for some lack of force with a sensitive feeling for melodic phrase and formal development. Among her recordings are Elgar’s Concerto, and Beethoven piano trios with Glenn Gould and Alexander Schneider. In 1960 she was bequeathed a Stradivari cello, the ‘Marquis de Corberon’, dated 1726. NOËL GOODWIN Nembri, Damianus [Octavianus](b Lesina [now Hvar], bap. 20 Dec 1584; d Venice, 1648/9). Dalmatian composer. He entered the Benedictine monastery of S Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, about 1594 and received his education there, adopting the name Damianus in place of his baptismal name Octavianus. After his 18th birthday he took his monastic vows, on 21 December 1602. Eitner’s statement that he was at Monte Cassino is incorrect. In 1622 he was apparently transferred by his order to the monastery of St Chrysogonus at Zara (Zadar), Dalmatia, to be its prior. In 1637 he was recalled to S Giorgio Maggiore in a similar capacity. The approximate date of his death derives from the will of his brother Joannes Andreas, who was for many years a canon of Lesina Cathedral and at an advanced age retired as a layman to S Giorgio Maggiore. Nembri’s only extant music is Brevis et facilis psalmorum modulatio (Venice, 1641), a collection of vesper psalms for four voices with organ continuo, together with a Magnificat. The collection belongs to the tradition of Venetian early Baroque vesperae: the solo parts are in concertato style and the tuttis are usually in the stile antico. Walther cited a collection of masses for three to eight voices by him, published in Venice in 1640, but it has not survived. BIBLIOGRAPHYEitnerQ; WaltherML M. Armellini: Bibliotheca Benedictino Casinensis: pars prima (Assisi, 1731), 149 D. Plamenac: ‘Damianus Nembri of Hvar (1584–c.1648) and his Vesper Psalms’, Musica antiqua VI: Bydgoszcz 1982, 669–85 E. Stipčević: Hrvatska glazbena kultura 17. stoljeća [Croatian musical culture in the 17th century] DRAGAN PLAMENAC/ENNIO STIPČEVIĆ Nemescu, Octavian(b Paşcani, 29 March 1940). Romanian composer. After attending the Music Lyceum in Bucharest he studied composition with Jora and Constantinescu at the Bucharest Academy (1956–63). In 1978 Nemescu obtained the doctorate from the Cluj Academy under the supervision of Toduţă with the thesis Capacităţile semantice ale muzicii (‘The semantic capacity of music’, Bucharest, 1983). He taught at the Bucharest Arts Lyceum no.3, Braşov University and the Enescu Lyceum in Bucharest before gaining a post teaching composition at the Bucharest Academy in 1990. In 1994 he became secretary of the symphonic and chamber music section of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists. His awards include the Aaron Copland Prize (1970) and the prize of the International Confederation of Electro-Acoustic Music in Bourges (1985). Receptive to the full range of compositional possibilities, Nemescu creates innovative and intensely vibrant music. From a neo-romantic stylistic basis he began to experiment with polyrhythm in Triunghi (1964), with spectral composition in Illuminaţii (1967) and with processes of structural disintegration and renewal in the series Memorial (1968–70); he returned to the forms of traditional music with Curcubee (1975). Polyrhythmic devices have remained a vital characteristic of Nemescu's scores. In his works of the 1990s an exploration of temporal elements and an increasing textural refinement becomes evident. WORKS(selective list)
BIBLIOGRAPHYKdG (C.D. Georgescu) G. Tartler: Melopoetica (Bucharest, 1984) I. Anghel: Orientări, direcţii, curente ale muzicii româneşti in a doua parte a secolului XX [Trends, directions and currents in Romanian music in the second half of the 20th century] (Bucharest, 1997) OCTAVIAN COSMA Yüklə 10,2 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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