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tScholars.com | Sergei Diaghilev Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (Russian: Серге́й Па́влович Дя́гилев Sergej Pavlovič Dâgilev), also referred to as Serge, (March 31, 1872 – August 19, 1929) was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise. Sergei Diaghilev was born to a wealthy family in Perm, Russia toward the end of its age of empire. Diaghilev engaged in a number of homosexual relationships over the course of his life - among others with Boris Kochno, his secretary from 1921 until the end of his life, with his cousin, Dima Filasofov, and at least four dancers in his ballet company, Vaslav Nijinsky, Leonide Massine, Anton Dolin, and Serge Lifar. www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Sergei_Diaghilev   (1366 words)

Sergei Diaghilev Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (March 19, 1872 - August 19, 1929), often known as Serge, was a Russian ballet impressario and founder of the Ballets Russes[?] from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise. Diaghilev used ballet music which he commissioned from composers such as Claude Debussy (Jeux, 1913), Maurice Ravel (Daphnis et Chloé, 1912), Erik Satie (Parade, 1917), Richard Strauss (Josephs-Legende, 1914), Sergei Prokofiev (Ala and Lolly, rejected by Diaghilev and turned into the Scythian Suite, and Chout, 1915) Francis Poulenc (Les Biches, 1923) and others. Diaghilev heard Stravinsky's early orchestral works Fireworks and Scherzo Fantastique, and was impressed enough to ask Stravinsky to arrange some pieces by Frederic Chopin for the Ballets Russes. www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/se/Sergei_Diaghilev.html   (419 words)

NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Sergei Diaghilev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian:, Sergej Sergejevič Prokof’ev; 15/April 271, 1891–March 5, 1953) was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Diaghilev was born in Novgorod on March 19, 1872. Sergei Diaghilev died in 1929 after nearly 20 years of life as the Tsar of the international ballet community. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sergei-Diaghilev   (3663 words)

Sergei Diaghilev Summary Diaghilev was born in 1872 into an aristocratic, wealthy family on a country estate in Perm, a province of Russia. Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (Russian: Серге́й Па́влович Дя́гилев Sergej Pavlovič Dâgilev), also referred to as Serge, (March 19, 1872 – August 19, 1929) was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise. Diaghilev engaged in a number of homosexual relationships over the course of his life. www.bookrags.com /Sergei_Diaghilev   (2640 words)

Read What the astonished reader could be sure of at the time, however, was that Diaghilev had been a great critic—the discriminating impulse at the heart of his uncanny ablity to bend the talented to his will. Diaghilev, an artist whose ­art ­form was to combine the art forms, gave everything to the world and kept little for himself. Diaghilev paid him late, behavior which Stravinsky interpreted, correctly, as bohemian, in the sense that a bohemian's ability not to worry about money always starts with your money rather than his. www.slate.com /toolbar.aspx?action=read&id=2159571   (1062 words)

Diaghilev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Sergei Diaghilev was born in 1872 into a family of army officers and merchants. Diaghilev spent his youth in Perm, situated at the foot of the Ural Mountains in the east of European Russia. In the artistic hotbed that was Paris in the period 1910-1930, Diaghilev's Ballets Russes induced the greatest theatre revolution of the twentieth century. www.diaghilevfestival.nl /english/diaghilev.html   (551 words)

Sergei Diaghilev Diaghilev was born in Novgorod on March 19, 1872. Sergei Diaghilev died in 1929 after nearly 20 years of life as the Tsar of the international ballet community. Diaghilev succeeded because of his collection of superb soloists such as Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina, and Vaslav Nizhinsky, as well as his extremely varied and exotic repertory (Haskell, 1968). www.bu.edu /econ/faculty/kyn/newweb/economic_systems/NatIdentity/FSU/Russia/sergei_diaghilev.htm   (578 words)

Grigoriev, S. L. (Sergei Leonidovich), 1883-1968. Papers: Guide. Sergei Leonidovich Grigoriev (1883-1968) was a Russian-born character dancer and rehearsal director, who primarily became known as the indispensable régisseur of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Sergei Grigoriev and his wife Lubov Tchernicheva continued working on revivals of Michel Fokine's ballets for Sadler's Wells Ballet and other companies, supervising and donating materials to the Diaghilev exhibit at the Edinburgh Festival in 1954, and supervising rehearsals of Leonide Massine's ballets. Correspondence with Serge Diaghilev and Sergei Grigoriev, 1914-1919. oasis.harvard.edu:10080 /oasis/deliver/~hou00240   (3564 words)

Guardian Unlimited | Archive Search Diaghilev set up a permanent independent company which was capable of generating its own art and in doing so provided a model for the fledgling companies which would, themselves, become insititutions like the Royal Ballet and New York City Ballet. It was Diaghilev's patronage that fired Stravinsky's genius to a higher orbit; The Firebird brought the composer to Paris in its wake, where, free of the conservatism of musical life in St Petersburg, his music began to evolve at lightning speed. For Diaghilev, it was good business to have a continuous supply of new ballets from a composer who was increasingly generating a succès de scandale, but he was also an astute enough musician himself to recognise the originality Stravinsky was offering him. www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4014679,00.html   (2636 words)

Prokofiev Biography: Exploration and Revolution (1914-1918) Sergei Diaghilev, the famous Russian ballet impresario and Stravinsky's partner, had also launched his Ballet Russes in Paris in 1909 to enormous success. Diaghilev was so impressed, he toyed with the notion of staging a performance to the Concerto. Diaghilev had a close relationship to Stravinsky, of which Prokofiev came to be envious. www.prokofiev.org /biography/revolution.html   (1246 words)

The genius who led a revolution - Arts - Entertainment - smh.com.au Diaghilev was born in Perm, almost in the Urals. Diaghilev was shocked into a new vision of art, abetted by a young Jewish artist, part of the St Petersburg group, called Lev Rosenberg, known to posterity as Leon Bakst. Diaghilev had hoped to repeat the operation, but the money was insufficient, so in 1909 he planned a season of ballet. www.smh.com.au /news/arts/the-genius-who-led-a-revolution/2005/08/15/1123958001900.html   (1174 words)

Internationales Symposium Finnland um 1900 - Kunst als Wegbereiter Sergei Diaghilev (1872–1929), whom we know best from the Russian Ballets, came from the Russian provinces to St. Petersburg in 1890 and started to study law, but he also began to study music, singing and composition. Sergei Diaghilev's reference to the new brand of industrial art in Finland probably refers to the Iris factory and to the artist and count Louis Sparre and to the artist and potter Alfred William Finch who had just moved to Porvoo (Borgå). Diaghilev's good attitude also contributed to the warm welcome which Finnish artists received in St. Petersburg in 1917 when the political situation was totally changed. www.broehan-museum.de /finnl4.htm   (3089 words)

Sergei Diaghilev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (Russian: Серге́й Па́влович Дя́гилев Sergej Pavlovič Dâgilev), also referred to as Serge, (March 31, 1872 – August 19, 1929) was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise. Sergei Diaghilev was born to a wealthy family in Perm, Russia toward the end of its age of empire. Diaghilev engaged in a number of homosexual relationships over the course of his life - among others with Boris Kochno, his secretary from 1921 until the end of his life, with his cousin, Dima Filasofov, and at least four dancers in his ballet company, Vaslav Nijinsky, Leonide Massine, Anton Dolin, and Serge Lifar. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sergei_Diaghilev   (1323 words)

Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Sergei Nabokov Sergei left because of a series of "unhappy romances." It's unlikely that he found much sympathy within his immediate family that instituted a kind of "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Shy, awkward and foppish, the opposite of his gregarious brother, Sergei Sergei's homosexuality would cast a long shadow over his strange and heroic life, and it would also, ultimately, be the cause of his horrifying and untimely death. Sergei was good friends with Jean Cocteau, and he was also connected, through Tchelitchev and his cousin Nicolas, to Diaghilev, to composer Virgil Thomson, to those aristocratic aesthetes the Sitwells and even to the legendary salons conducted by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas at 27 Rue de Fleurus. andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/bion1/nabo1.html   (2013 words)

Mariinsky Theatre Sergei Diaghilev was the leader of this group, a man who, though he painted no pictures and created no productions, ballets and operas, was to be perhaps the single defining character associated with Russian ballet in the twentieth century. Diaghilev was hesitant about the ballet because its tradition in the West was so withered, but finally he agreed. The Diaghilev seasons lasted for twenty years, but with the loss of Nijinsky, Fokine, and Pavlova (she left and created her own company) the company never fully recovered the magic of the first five seasons. it.stlawu.edu /~rkreuzer/pete14/pete14.htm   (2947 words)

Salon | The gay Nabokov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Sergei would never be famous -- in fact, his existence has been all but covered up by his family -- but in its own way his life would be just as remarkable. Sergei's homosexuality would cast a long shadow over his strange and heroic life, and it would also, ultimately, be the cause of his horrifying and untimely death. Sergei hides under the brim of his sun hat, one arm held protectively across his midsection, the other stroking his cheek in a strikingly girlish gesture. archive.salon.com /books/feature/2000/05/17/nabokov/print.html   (4478 words)

glbtq >> arts >> Diaghilev, Sergei Diaghilev's genius and his extraordinary knowledge of all the arts, from painting to music, led him to discover and inspire genius in others and to facilitate the collaboration of his discoveries. Estranged from Diaghilev after his marriage, Nijinsky became depressed and delusional and was committed to a mental hospital by his wife. Diaghilev's next discovery was an unknown young actor, Léonide Massine, whom he developed into a great dancer and one of the seminal choreographers of the twentieth century. www.glbtq.com /arts/diaghilev_s.html   (1214 words)

Capezio - The dance website Diaghilev was born March 31, 1872 and died August 19, 1929. Diaghilev collaborated with the most famous artists, composers and dancers of the period. Diaghilev and the dancers that left Russia with Diaghilev and became the teachers that made American dancers some of the best in the world. www.capeziodance.com /dancer_stories/biographies/006_sergei_diaghilev.html   (813 words)

Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Prokofiev, as he writes in his memoirs, "first saw the light of day on Wednesday 23rd April at five in the afternoon." The year was 1891, the centenary of Mozart’s death, the place a small village in the Ukraine, Sontsovka. Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes was in the forefront of artistic innovation, and every new production was expected to be even more astonishing than the one before. Prokofiev and Diaghilev met for the first time in London in 1914 and, as it was the shrewd and ultimately sagacious impresario’s practice to encourage young talent, he presented the composer with his first ballet commission. www.balletmet.org /Notes/Prokofiev.html   (2176 words)

Letter from London - exhibit honoring Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev Dance Magazine - Find Articles Tastefully and colorfully staged by Paul Dart, the exhibition followed the impresario's life from schoolboy to the visionary whose ambition and impetus first presented to Europe the hitherto little-known culture of Russia, and whose Ballets Russes was later to change the face of dance in the west. Diaghilev was born in 1872 in Selistchev, near Novgorod in southwest Russia. When Diaghilev graduated in 1895, it was not as the composer or singer he had hoped to be. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1083/is_n9_v70/ai_18640442   (881 words)

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev - HighBeam Encyclopedia Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich, 1872-1929, Russian ballet impresario and art critic, grad. He took a company of Russian dancers to Paris (1909) and, with the assistance of the painters L. Bakst and Aleksandr Benois and the choreographer Michel Fokine, founded Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, a troupe that was to revolutionize the world of dance. Diaghilev's productions were based on the principles of asymmetry and perpetual motion; both music and scene design became an integral part of the dance. www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Diaghile.html   (328 words)

Russian culture navigator Sergei Diaghilev, an outstanding ballet producer and an energetic impresario, who early this century brought Western Europe in contact with Russian art, seemed to be long forgotten at home, in Russia. Diaghilev was an impresario in the finest sense of the word: a top-class professional, a man of profound learning, an excellent organizer who knew how to recognize and promote talent, and an audacious innovator intolerant of routine in art. Sergei Diaghilev is best-known in the western world as the organizer of the Ballet Russe in France in 1909, which introduced such brilliant names as Mikhail Fokine, Anna Pavlova, Waslaw Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina. www.vor.ru /culture/cultarch21_eng.html   (3044 words)

September Article I believe the culmination of their accidental circle occurred in 1913, and represented a revolution in western arts – especially the music-dance connection – that led to ripples of influence that have continued for decades. Diaghilev grew to be more than a mere patron, but a visionary producer, a team-builder, an igniter of sparks that fired brilliant new works. Diaghilev resigned as editor of the annual, and eventually was dismissed altogether. www.musikinesis.com /march_article.htm   (1944 words)

Sergei Prokofiev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Arriving in San Francisco, he was immediately compared to other famous Russian exiles (such as Sergei Rachmaninoff), and he started out successfully with a solo concert in New York, leading to several further engagements. He reaffirmed his contacts with the Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and with Stravinsky, and returned to some of his older unfinished works such as the Third Piano Concerto. It was overwhelmingly received, but shortly afterwards, Sergei suffered a concussion as a result of a fall, from which he never really recovered and which also severely lowered his productivity in later years. www.1bx.com /en/Sergei_Prokofiev.htm   (2230 words)

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