Maxim Berezovsky biography

Berezovsky Maxim Sozontovich - Maxim Sozontovich Berezovsky graduated from the Kyiv Theological Academy, after graduation he was in the chapel, where he was engaged in the composition with the Tsoplic. Since he was distinguished by special giftedness, he was sent to improve the composition to Italy. In Italy, in Bologna, Berezovsky was engaged in the leadership of the then -famous theorist, Padre Martini, who was also engaged in Mozart.

In the year, Berezovsky returned to Russia. Here his fate was extremely tragic: Berezovsky did not receive recognition and committed suicide in a fever. Unfortunately, the brief composer activity of Berezovsky for the Russian Church was almost without a trace. In your concert “Do not reject Mene during old age” Poems 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 from Psalm 70 Berezovsky gives a classic example of the Italian paralygic concert in the understanding of the Russian Orthodox, musically very educated composer.

Another work of Berezovsky for church choirs is written in a completely different form-in the form of recitative phrases with a variety of cadences at the end of the phrases of the symbol of faith, and these cadences sometimes serve as modulations to continue the recitative of the next phrase, on another chord. In addition, several more involved verses belong to Berezovsky - these works were even printed in due time.

In addition, the manuscripts remained: 1 liturgy, 2 concert “Opip the Heart”, 3 concert “Grace and judgment”, 4 “Glory to God's Execution”, 5 involve “praise the Lord from heaven”, 6 “Blessed, 7“ Not Imams of the Help ”and not at all works. Metals, which devoted their work to partly and criticism of spiritual and musical works, is so characterized by Berezovsky’s work: “The works of Berezovsky are on themselves, less traces of dependence on Italian music are independent and original, being a noticeable turn in the development of initial spiritual and musical work in the spirit and direction of a more national one.

The freedom and independence of voting in the contrapunctic style, the artistry of the whole preferably before the external splendor of the melodic movement of individual voices, meaningfulness in the location of the text with music, the power of artistic creativity as a whole and the remarkable technique in the development of details-these are the distinctive features of the spiritual and musical works of Berezovsky.

" The early death of Berezovsky - he died at the age of only 32 years - did not give the opportunity to his work for choral liturgical singing to develop, go deeper, nor to leave a deeper trace in itself. Russian composers.