Mikhail Ivanov-Boretsky

Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky (1874–1936) was a prominent Russian and Soviet musicologist, composer, historian, and music theorist. Born in Moscow, he graduated from the law faculty of Moscow University in 1896 while simultaneously pursuing musical education. He studied composition with N. S. Klenovsky in Moscow and N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov in St. Petersburg, followed by studies in music history with Alfonso Falconi in Florence from 1901 to 1905.

Upon his return to Moscow, Ivanov-Boretsky engaged in musical educational organizations and the Circle of Comic Opera, which staged his opera Adolfina in 1908. He composed a second opera, The Sorceress (Koldunya), in 1913 based on a fairy tale by E. N. Chirikov. After the 1917 revolution, he dedicated himself to academic work, becoming a professor at the Moscow Conservatory in 1921, where he taught the history of foreign music and mentored a generation of significant Soviet musicologists, including Yury Keldysh and Tamara Livanova.

Ivanov-Boretsky is considered one of the founders of the Soviet school of historical musicology, specializing in the Renaissance and the 17th and 18th centuries. He served as the director of the conservatory library and held various administrative posts. His scholarly legacy includes the multi-volume Musical-Historical Anthology, numerous encyclopedia articles, and edited collections on music history. Possessing encyclopedic knowledge and fluency in several languages, he also contributed to music theory, editing and commenting on works regarding the history of harmony.

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