Alexander Kopylov
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14 Tableaux musicaux de la vie enfantine, Op.5214 Tableaux musicaux de la vie enfantine, Op.532 Etudes, Op.602 Feuilles d'album2 Mazurkas, Op.32 Piano Pieces, Op.392 Pieces, Op.13bis3 Feuilles d'album, Op.263 Fugues, Op.124 Miniatures, Op.174 Petits morceaux, Op.135 Pieces, Op.20A
A Breath of Bird-Cherry Woke Up the Nightingale, Op.25Andantino sur le thème B-la-f, Op.7E
Etude in F minorL
Liturgy of St. John ChrysostomLord, now Lettest ThouM
Mazurka, Op.8P
Polka de salon, Op.16Prélude et fugue sur le thème B-la-f, Op.11S
Sacred ChorusesString Quartet No.1, Op.15String Quartet No.2, Op.23String Quartet No.3, Op.32String Quartet No.4, Op.33Symphony in C minor, Op.14V
Valse, Op.6É
Étude, Op.9WikipediaAlexander Alexandrovich Kopylov or Kopilov (Александр Александрович Копылов, 14 July 1854 – 20 February 1911) was an Imperial Russian composer and violinist.
Kopylov studied for many years as a chorister and violinist in the Imperial Court Choir, where he would later teach for much of his life. (The Court Choir was modeled after the more famous one in Vienna, known today as the Vienna Boys Choir). He was unable to gain entrance to either of the major conservatories in Russia, but was nevertheless able to study composition privately with
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Anatoly Liadov.
Kopylov gained a reputation as a symphonist and composer of songs. Through his friendship with Rimsky-Korsakov, he became interested in chamber music, writing four string quartets. Wilhelm Altmann, the chamber music scholar and critic, writes in his Handbuch für Streichquartettspieler:
Kopylov's four carefully written string quartets show an outstanding command of proper quartet style. He gives all of the instruments mutually rich parts to play, alternating in exquisite fashion. His excellence is particularly strong in the sparkling themes. He is able to combine the external beauty of form with effective ideas and distinctive harmonies and rhythms.
A copy of his String Quartet No.2 in F, Op.23 (published by Belyayev in 1894), which is conserved at the Cornell University Library, has notations in the margin of the first violin part from a performance with Eugène Ysaÿe.
Kopylov's Symphony in C minor (Op.14) and Concert Overture (Op.31) have been recorded, as have his contributions to some of the Belyayev circle's projects (such as Les Vendredis).