Lydia Axionova Explained

Lydia Axionova
Native Name Lang:ru
Birth Date:July 19, 1923
Birth Place:Engels, Saratov Oblast, Soviet Union
Death Date:September 18, 2019 (aged 96)
Death Place:Chișinău, Moldova
Occupation:Conductor, professor of choral conducting
Years Active:1941 - 2019
Spouse:Max Fishman
Children:Beno Axionov
Artur Aksenov
Awards:Honored Artist of the Moldavian SSR.

Lydia Valeryanovna Axionova ro|Lidia Axionov; ru|Лидия Валерьяновна Аксенова; July 19, 1923, Pokrovsk (since 1931 — Engels, Saratov Oblast, Saratov Region, Russia) — September 18, 2019, Chișinău, Moldova) — Soviet and Moldovan conductor, music teacher, choral theorist, music writer, the first professor of choral conducting in Moldova, Honored Artist of the Moldavian SSR.[1]

Biography

Axionova was born into the family of lawyer Valerian Mikhailovich Axionov (Aksenov) (06.01.1894 – January 26, 1980)[2] and teacher Klavdiya Ivanovna Aksenova (née Zhivaeva) (December 31, 1892 – June 14, 1967).[3] In 1941, she graduated from school with a gold medal and during the Eastern Front (World War II) by order of her superiors, she taught German in the senior grades of the comprehensive school in the city of Krasnoarmeysk, Saratov Oblast. From 1942 to 1944, she studied at the Saratov State Medical University and worked as a nurse at the Military hospital. In 1944, she entered the Saratov Conservatory in the vocal class (class of Professor A. M. Paskhalova. From 1945 to 1952, she studied at the Belarusian State Academy of Music in the symphony conducting class with Professor S. L. Ratner and in the choral conducting class with Professor N. F. Maslov. As a conductor, Axionova is the heir to the best Russian conducting and choral traditions. The "pedigree" in symphonic conducting before S. L. Ratner, includes the names of Ilya Musin (conductor), Nicolai Malko, Nikolai Tcherepnin and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. In the field of choral conducting, Axionova's "genealogy" again goes back to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – his students Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Pavel Chesnokov and N. F. Maslov.[4]

From 1952 to 2015, she taught at the Chișinău Conservatory (later renamed the Chișinău Institute of Arts named after Gavriil Musicescu, currently the Academy of Music, Theater and Fine Arts).

Axionova's teaching, scientific, and performing activities lasted more than 70 years; during this time, she trained more than 350 specialists. The school of choral conducting she created is known far beyond Moldova, and its training system is passed down from generation to generation. Many of her students successfully work not only in Moldova, but also in many countries worldwide – in Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Israel, Turkey, US, France, Austria, Belgium, Spain, and other countries. Among them are outstanding musicians, people's Artist of the USSR, people's Artist of the Moldova, Russia and Ukraine, honored artists, honored artists, laureates of numerous international festivals and competitions, professors, associate professors and doctors of science: Teodor Zgureanu, Sofia Rotaru, Eduard Markin, Ilona Stepan, Nikolay Cholak, Svetlana Popova, Tatiana Tverdokhleb, Larisa Vishnevaya, Vasily Kondrea, Veronica Galesku, Mikhail Magalnik, Ivan Melnik, Alexey Vinogradsky, Larisa Balaban, Luminiţa Stoyan (Guţanu), Irina Cholak, Ekaterina Yankovskaya, Natalia Konstantin (Sprinčan), Svetlana Siloch, Vyacheslav Obruchkov, Tatiana Fanyan, Harry Dubenko, Mikhail Rymarev and many others. Among the students of the conservatory, to whom Axionova taught courses of choral music and reading choral scores, was Veronica Garștea, who later became the Chief Conductor of the Capella Doina National Philharmonic Society, People's Artist of the USSR[5]

Lydia Axionova was the first in Moldova to be awarded the academic scientific title of professor of the choral conducting department by the Higher Attestation Commission.

In 1964, in parallel with her work at the Chișinău Institute of Arts named after G. Muzicescu, Axionova created the choir of the Special Music School named after E. Koka and led it until 1979. The group performed about 200 works, including major pieces of Russian and foreign classics and avant-garde. Many scores were dedicated to the choir by Moldovan composers who had never thought of writing for children before. A film called "My Moldova" was made about the choir, its concerts were held at prestigious concert venues, and broadcast on radio and television. The choir was awarded the title "Exemplary", people began to imitate it, and new children's choirs began to be organized throughout Moldova. More than a thousand young people who were passionate about choral singing passed through the professor's hands, and many of them subsequently became prominent representatives of Moldovan art. She initiated the Song Festival in Moldova: at the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of them, she led a combined choir, the composition of which increased from 700 to 10,000 children.

Axionova's versatile activities played an important role in the development of Moldovan musical art. At various times, she headed the department of choral conducting at the Academy of Music, the orchestra at the State Russian Drama Theater A. P. Chekhov (becoming the first woman in the republic to take the conductor's stand of a symphony orchestra), she led the conservatory choir and preparation for opera performances, was repeatedly appointed chairperson of state examination commissions at higher and secondary musical institutions, headed the Choral Society and was a member of the leadership of the Union of Musical Workers of Moldova.

Lydia Axionova is the author of dozens of textbooks, repertoire reference books, and training programs in the specialty of choral conducting for students of higher and secondary musical educational institutions, published in Chișinău and Moscow. She was the author of many articles and reviews in newspapers and magazines, and her warm memories of the colleagues with whom she worked over the years fill in the gaps in the history of musical art in Moldova.[6]

Lydia Axionova died on September 18, 2019, in Chișinău. She was buried next to her husband at the Chișinău cemetery of St. Lazarus (also called "Doina").[7]

Olga Bejenaru, Veronica Kazhdan, in an article titled The first professor of choral conducting in Moldova (on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of L.V. Axionova).[8]

"... We, more than ever, realize the scale of her personality, which amazingly combined intelligence and devotion to art, depth and spiritual wisdom, kindness and innate sensitivity, majestic stature and inner fragility. Her name – Lydia Valeryanovna Axionova – has already been inscribed in that golden book where there is a place only for the great. "

Family

Her husband Max Fishman composer, pianist, and teacher.[9] Their sons: actor, and director Beno Axionov (b. 1946)[10] and pianist, and teacher Artur Aksenov (b.1956).[11] [12]

Awards

Books and articles

Sources

Recordings

Master class by Lidia Axionova (2008) – YouTube (Мастер-класс Лидии Аксёновой в 2008 году) – YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaoB6JZhFuI&t=6s

Notes and References

  1. Музыкальная академия https://mus.academy/authors/aksenova-lidiya
  2. https://timenote.info/ru/Valerjan-Aksjonov Валерьян (Валериан) Михайлович Аксёнов
  3. https://timenote.info/ru/Klavdija-Aksjonova#google_vignette Клавдия Ивановна Аксёнова
  4. Балабан Лариса, доцент, доктор искусствоведения, «Особенности изучения произведений композиторов Республики Молдова в классе профессора Л. В. Аксёновой» https://ibn.idsi.md/vizualizare_articol/175100
  5. Web site: Первый профессор хорового дирижирования Молдовы. :: Общество :: AVA.MD. June 20, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230620035303/https://ava.md/2023/02/23/pervyy-professor-horovogo-dirizhirovaniya/ . 2023-06-20 .
  6. Галкина Аксиния, "Теория верности" газета "Независимая Молдова" July 18, 2008, https://www.nm.md/article/teoriya-vernosti/
  7. Web site: Olga Bulychevskaya, journalist and art critic: "Music enlivens life. To the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer Max Fishman." (Музыка возрождает жизнь. К 100-летию композитора Макса Фишмана.) AVA.MD November 4, 2015 . June 28, 2023 . June 20, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230620132549/https://ava.md/2015/11/04/muzyka-vozrozhdaet-zhizn-k-100-letiyu/ . live .
  8. https://web.archive.org/web/20230620035303/https://ava.md/2023/02/23/pervyy-professor-horovogo-dirizhirovaniya/ Olga Bejenaru, Veronica Kazhdan, art critics: The first professor of choral conducting in Moldova (on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of L.V. Axionova) "Information and analytical portal AVA.MD" February 23, 2023. (Беженару Ольга, Каждан Вероника, искусствоведы: Первый профессор хорового дирижирования Молдовы. К 100-летию со дня рождения Л.В. Аксёновой Информационно-аналитический портал AVA.MD" 23 февраля 2023)
  9. Web site: В поисках добра и истины. Аксёновы. :: Общество :: AVA.MD. June 20, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230620035300/https://ava.md/2017/12/04/v-poiskah-dobra-i-istiny-aksenovy/ . 2023-06-20 .
  10. Мария Станкевич Игры без поддавков. Прошлое и настоящее актёра и режиссёра Бэно Аксёнова 10 мая 2021 г. https://www.chayka.org/node/12064
  11. Artur Aksenov (în engleză), https://www.levinemusic.org/about/people/faculty/artur-aksenov/
  12. Rezhissura igry na fortepiano: B. M. Berlin—muzykant, lichnostʹ, ... [otvetstvennyĭ redaktor A. M. Aksenov] Moskva: Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ muzyki im. Gnesinykh, 2006. https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchArg=+B.+M.+Berlin+muzykant%2C+lichnost%CA%B9%2C+&searchCode=GKEY%5E*&searchType=1&limitTo=none&fromYear=&toYear=&limitTo=LOCA%3Dall&limitTo=PLAC%3Dall&limitTo=TYPE%3Dall&limitTo=LANG%3Dall&recCount=25
  13. Web site: Николае Тимофти вручил государственные награды группе граждан . 2014-12-22 . 2014-12-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141222105506/http://www.presedinte.md/rus/presa/presedintele-republicii-moldova-nicolae-timofti-a-acordat-distinctii-de-stat-unui-grup-de-cetateni . live .

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