Sergei Lyapunov - Reverie du soir Op. 3 (audio + sheet music)

Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov (30 November [O.S. 18 November] 1859 - 8 November 1924) was a Russian composer and pianist.
Lyapunov was born in Yaroslavl in 1859. After the death of his father, Mikhail Lyapunov, when he was about eight, Sergei, his mother, and his two brothers (one of them was Aleksandr Lyapunov, later a notable mathematician) went to live in the larger town of Nizhny Novgorod. There he attended the grammar school along with classes of the newly formed local branch of the Russian Musical Society. On the recommendation of Nikolai Rubinstein, the Director of the Moscow Conservatory of Music, he enrolled in that institution in 1878. His main teachers were Karl Klindworth (piano; a former pupil of Franz Liszt), and Sergei Taneyev (composition; a former pupil of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and his successor at the Conservatory).
He graduated in 1883, more attracted by the nationalist elements in music of the New Russian School than by the more cosmopolitan approach of Tchaikovsky and Taneyev. He went to St. Petersburg in 1885 to seek Mily Balakirev, becoming the most important member of Balakirev's latter-day circle. Balakirev, who had himself been born and bred in Nizhny Novgorod, took Lyapunov under his wing, and oversaw his early compositions as closely as he had done with the members of his circle during the 1860s, now known as The Five. Balakirev's influence remained the dominant influence in his creative life.
In 1893, the Imperial Geographical Society commissioned Lyapunov, along with Balakirev and Anatoly Lyadov, to gather folksongs from the regions of Vologda, Vyatka (now Kirov) and Kostroma. They collected nearly 300 songs, which the society published in 1897. Lyapunov arranged 30 of these songs for voice and piano and used authentic folk songs in several of his compositions during the 1890s.
He succeeded Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov as assistant director of music at the Imperial Chapel, became a director of the Free Music School, then its head, as well as a professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1911. After the Revolution he emigrated to Paris in 1923 and directed a school of music for Russian émigrés, but died of a heart attack the following year. For many years the official Soviet line was that Lyapunov had died during a concert tour of Paris, no acknowledgement being made of his voluntary exile.
Lyapunov enjoyed a successful career as a pianist. He made several tours of Western Europe, including one of Germany and Austria in 1910-1911. From 1904 he also made appearances as a conductor, mounting the podium by invitation in Berlin and Leipzig in 1907.
(Wikipedia)
Please take note that the audio AND the sheet music ARE NOT mine. Change the quality to a minimum of 480p if the video is blurry.
Original audio: / watchv=hwgmzapapew
Original sheet music: imslp.org

[@hidude1130]

I knew this genious reading about his brother Aleksandr Lyapunov (since i'm an electronic engineering student who loves control theory) and it's the most fascinating finding in the year! Now i'm fan of both Lyapunov brothers.

[@RozarSmacco]

Diego Roldán Camacho Seriously, lyapunov of “Lyapunov stability” fame is the brother of the composer? Wow incredible genes.

[@hidude1130]

@@RozarSmacco Yep, it's exactly that Lyapunov... Terrific genes actually!

[@freddoliveira]

@@hidude1130 And their father was astronomer.

[@Xyriak]

Underrated composer

[@user-fi4hw3fw6h]

Вот она - настоящая русская музыка: ни отнять, ни прибавить!

[@timofeytereshenko]

Настолько русская, что название даже на французком..... :D

[@shilloshillos]

Lyapunov is not a composer to be sneezed at. I am amazed he is not more famous and loved....

[@SpaghettiToaster]

shilloshillos These Russians have Too long names! People already have to remember "Rachmaninoff" "Prokofieff" "Tchaikovsky" and "Stravinsky". Can't expect them to remember another one of these!

[@thenameisgsarci]

Well then, you might as well hope the spelling bee host doesn't give you Khachaturian, Ustvolskaya, Wyschnegradsky, and the million-dollar grand prize word Ippolitov-Ivanov.

[@sheilawidjaja7331]

thenameisgsarci 😂😂😂😂😂 That million dollar grand prize though...

[@thenameisgsarci]

@Sheila Widjaja
I know, right? XD

[@liloruf2838]

@@SpaghettiToaster not to forget Shostakovich!

[@Greg-kz8ts]

3:50 Wow!

[@nnarcissminator3193]

Such a miraculous piece!

[@jardinssecretsaupiano]

Beautifully played..thanks 💐

[@roxanneschweinsteiger5250]

Again perfection I see that you are very idealistic

[@boqueefawigg354]

It's sounds so much like Debussy's early romantic style.

[@sijialiu376]

I think so too

[@pierrelaurent9699]

C'est magnifique, l' œuvre et l'interprétation .

[@giuseppedimarco8358]

Nice!

[@kentcarr160]

Who's the performer?

[@evilBreadD-jf9go]

Who is the pianist?

[@militaryandemergencyservic3286]

sounds like that Schubert song...

[@xinyimeng5651]

好听

[@nezkeys79]

Sounds great but again...i wonder why people write over the bar lines and the main pulse beats. Its confusing to read and unneccesary imo. Bar 1 and 2 is a pefect example

[@lukeehrkepiano5061]

With the example you gave in bar 1 and 2, the composer was likely trying to indicate that the set of notes shouldn't be played with the emphasis of a beat, and rather should be presented simply as a longer string of notes

[@blackburn1111]

Yes, perhaps purposed as an embellished antecedent

[@fabiolaberru7289]

Hola en español.pirfavor

[@vonwthaud289]

Manuel De Falla isn't enough for you? 🙃

[@r0mmm]

Volume like pppppp

[@sijialiu376]

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