Davydov R. Compositions for Organ

The composer Roman Tigranovich Davydov (born on July 16, 1947) originates from Baku. During the first seven years of his career Davydov served as the concertmaster at the Azerbaijan Operette Theatre. Beside the foremost duties Davydov fulfilled the orders for performances orchestration. Then there were years of studying in the Gorkov Conservatoire, where the composition class was conducted by professor A. A. Nesterov. The name of A. A. Kasyanov, People's Artist of the USSR shall never be obliterated from the mind of his grateful disciple Roman Davydov, who continued the destination of his tutor, successor of M. A. Balakirev's and A. K. Glazunov's music trend.

Every composer cherishes his own instrument. Roman Davydov considers organ to be the mean for his bosom one. The composer understood it after his wife Svetlana and four-yeared daughter Masha perished in the accident in January 1972.

The greatest part of Davydov's creation is inseparably connected with this king of instruments, though there is no organ in Penza, where Davydov lives from 1975.

It was in 1978, when A. A. Nesterov, head of the Gorky Conservatoire presented his disciple's organ music to the organist Hugo Lepnurm, professor of the Tallin Conservatoire, People's Artist of Estonia, who simultaneously became his worshipper and interpreter. Lepnurm performed Davydov's music at the Moscow Conservatoire Grand Hall, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. The responses were most praising (see the magazine “Music Life” 16 / 1979, 1/ 1982). The Northern Capital St. Petersburg got the evidence of Davydov's Three Preludes and Fugues, performed at the Kapelle M. I. Glinka Hall.

Contents:

Postlude
Two Frescoes
     I
     II
Three Preludes and Fugues
     I (d-moll)
     II (a-moll)
     III (f-moll)
Elegy
Passacaglia 1
Passacaglia 2
Fugue (a-moll)
Prelude (c-moll)