Evstignej Ipatovič Fomin (1761-1800) - Suite 'Orpheus' (1792)

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Composer: Evstignej Ipatovič Fomin (1761-1800)
Work: Suite 'Orpheus' (1792)
Performers: Chamber ensemble 'Baroque'

Suite 'Orpheus' (1792)
1. Ouverture 0:00
2. Aria 7:30
3. Dance of the Furies 10:40

Drawing: Gabriel Lory le Père (1763-1840) - Vue du Kremlin à Moscow prise du Pont de pierre (1794)
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Evstignej Ipatovič (Yevstigney Ipat'yevich) Fomin
(St Petersburg, 16 August 1761 - St Petersburg, 28 April 1800)

Russian composer. Orphaned at an early age, he was sent by his uncle to the Academy of the Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, where he was to be trained as an architect. In 1776, however, he decided to concentrate on music, taking harpsichord lessons from Matteo Bomi and composition from Hermann Raupach and Blasius Sartori. Sartori encouraged him to further his education in Italy, and in 1782 he arrived in Bologna where he became a student of Padre Giovanni Battista Martini and Stanislao Mattei. Within three years he had been elected to the prestigious Accademia filarmonica, around the same time as he returned to St. Petersburg at the request of Catherine II, who wished him to compose Russian operas. He also taught at the theatre school. His most famous work was a Russian version of the Orpheus legend, Orfey i Evridika, produced in 1792. An indication of his dramatic style of musical composition that includes Russian folk elements can be found in his choruses to the play Yuropolk i Olega of 1798. He is said to have composed some 30 operas, as well as a pair of choral concertos in Old Church Slavonic.