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Ignannino, Pater Angelo [Ignanimus, Angelus]
(b Altamura; d Venice, 1543). Italian composer. His life and works are still to be documented. Fétis described him as a Dominican monk, and maestro di cappella at Venice, though presumably not at S Marco, since his name does not appear among the musicians in Francesco Caffi's transcripts of the registers. Without citing his source of information Fétis credited Ignannino with the authorship of masses, motets, psalms, Lamentations, responsories, and three books of madrigals for three to six voices, all published in Venice. He is also supposed to have written a treatise on plainsong and some ‘ricercate con l'intavolatura’, consisting principally of preparations and resolutions of 4th and 7th suspensions which, according to Fétis, are in a manuscript in Altamura. (FétisB)
DON HARRÁN
Igumnov, Konstantin (Nikolayevich)
(b Lebedyan, 19 April/1 May 1873; d Moscow, 24 March 1948). Russian pianist and teacher. He began piano lessons with Zverev in 1887, shortly after his family had moved to Moscow. The following year he was accepted as a pupil at the Moscow Conservatory, studying piano with Ziloti and Pabst, theory and composition with Taneyev, Arensky and Ippolitov-Ivanov and chamber music with Safonov. Igumnov graduated in 1894 with a gold medal for piano and subsequently entered the international Rubinstein Piano Competition in Berlin, at which Josef Lhévinne was awarded the first prize, and he an honorary diploma.
His long and illustrious teaching career at the Moscow Conservatory dated from 1899, and he remained there until his death; from 1924 to 1929 he served as rector. Igumnov continued to play in public throughout, and his interpretations were noted for their deep lyricism and a spiritual identification with the music that precluded all histrionics and overt virtuosity. In his teaching he laid special emphasis on the relationship between singing and piano playing, as regards both phrasing and tone production. Renowned as an interpreter of Tchaikovsky and early Skryabin, he was also entrusted by Rachmaninoff with the first performance of the Sonata in D minor and the Russian première of the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Recordings, taken from recitals, exist of Tchaikovsky’s G major Sonata and Piano Trio in A minor, Chopin’s B minor Sonata, Schumann’s Kreisleriana and Skryabin’s Second Sonata. His pupils included Orlov, the conductor Dobroven, Oborin, Fliyer and Grinberg.
Ya. Mil'shteyn: ‘Ispolnitel'skiye i pedagogicheskiye printsipï K.N. Igumnova’ [Igumnov’s principles of performance and teaching], Mastera sovetskoy pianisticheskoy shkolï, ed. A.A. Nikolayev (Moscow, 1954, 2/1961), 40–114
D. Rabinovich: Portretï pianistov [Portraits of pianists] (Moscow, 1962, 2/1970)
Ya. Mil'shteyn: ‘K.N. Igumnov i voprosï fortepiannoy pedagogiki’ [Igumnov and questions of piano teaching], Voprosï fortepiannogo ispolnitel'stva, i, ed. M.G. Sokolov (Moscow, 1965), 141
Ya. Mil'shteyn: Konstantin Nikolayevich Igumnov (Moscow, 1975)
M.G. Sokolov, ed.: Pianistï rasskazïvayut [Reminiscences of pianists] (Moscow, 1979)
JAMES METHUEN-CAMPBELL
Ikebe, Shin'ichirō
(b Mito, 15 Sept 1943). Japanese composer. After piano and composition lessons from around the age of six, he joined brass bands, choirs, youth orchestras and private opera productions while at school. He studied composition to postgraduate level at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (1963–71) with Ikenouchi, Miyoshi and Yashiro, then served as a part-time lecturer there until 1977. At Tokyo College of Music he was a lecturer (1974) and assistant professor (1982), becoming professor in 1987. He has won prizes in the Fine Arts Festival in Japan (1974, 1982–4) and the TV-Opera Festival in Salzburg (1971), and has gained the Japanese Academy Award (1980, 1991–2, 1994, 1998), the RAI Prize in Italy (1976, 1989) and an Emmy award (1989).
A prolific and versatile composer, Ikebe is well known for his incidental music for ballet, film, theatre, radio and television. In his works he has renounced a dogmatic approach, and shows agility in managing diverse techniques and effects and an inclination towards witty and theatrical gestures. He has communicated with a wide public through his compositions, in which his awareness of social conflicts and global crises is often reflected. Also active as a concert organizer, conductor, essayist and TV commentator, he was vice-president of the Japan Federation of Composers, becoming its president in 1998. Further information is given in Sakkyokuka no koten ’93: Ikebe Shin'ichirō (`An exhibition of a composer '93: Ikebe Shin'ichirō', Tokyo, 1993), edited by Tokyo Concerts.
WORKS
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Dramatic: Shinigami [The Death Goddess] (op, 2), 1971, rev. 1978; Mogaribue [The Whistling of the Wind] (musical fantasy for TV), 1976; Chinmoku [The Silence] (musical drama for radio), 1977; Oidipusu-henreki [Oedipus Wandering] (jōruri), male chorus, 10 insts, 1984; Carmen (capriccio, after G. Bizet), chbr orch, 1989
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Syms.: no.1, 1967; no.2 ‘Trias’, 1979; no.3 ‘Egō Phanō’, 1984; no.4, 1990; no.5 ‘Simplex’, 1990; no.6 ‘On the Individual Coordinates’, 1993
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Orch: Construction, 2 movts, 1966; Pf Conc. no.1, 1967; Energeia, 60 players, 1970; Dimorphism, org, orch, 1974; Vn Conc., 1981; Pf Conc. no.2 ‘Tu m’ … ’, 1987; Vc Conc. ‘Almost a Tree’, 1996
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Chbr: Crepa in sette capitoli, vn, 3 va, vc, db, 1966; Un-en, 2 koto, 17-str koto, str, 1970
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Vocal: 2 ballades, A, pf, 1966; Doronko no uta [Poems Engraved on Clay Tablets], children’s chorus, pf, 1982; Ibun ‘Bocchann’, chorus, pf, 1983
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Film scores: Kagemusha [The Shadow Warrior] (dir. A. Kurosawa), 1980; Narayamabushikō [The Ballad of Narayama] (dir. S. Imamura), 1983; Unagi [The Eel] (dir. Imamura), 1997
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Principal publishers: Kawai, Ongaku-no-Tomo sha, Zen-on Music
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Oto no Iinokoshita Mono: Dōjidai no Mado kara [Things inexpressible in sound: through the contemporary window] (Tokyo, 1982)
Splash: Dialogues with Ikebe Shin'ichirō (Tokyo, 1993)
TATSUHIKO ITOH
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