In the history of music, Dmytro Bortnianskyi is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Dmytro Bortnianskyi as Ukrainian-born Russian Classical composer and conductor.
Dmytro Bortnianskyi was born at Hlukhiv in 1751. His recorded nationality is Russia. He trained at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
The concert hall and the public audience were new in this period; music was beginning to be written for buyers rather than employers.
He worked as composer and conductor.
The instruments recorded are piano, harpsichord and sopranist.
His work is classed as opera, classical music and concerto.
Performance is the most perishable art and recording the most durable; a career sits between the two.
That the work came out of Russia shaped it: musical traditions, training institutions and the reach of a recording industry all differ by country.
Dmytro Bortnianskyi died in 1825, aged 74. The recordings and scores remain, which is the only durable form a musical life takes.
Achievements
- Instruments: piano, harpsichord and sopranist
- Genres: opera, classical music and concerto
