Alexander Dmitriyevich Kastalsky
Alexand(e)r Dmitriyevich Kastalsky (Russian: Александр Дмитриевич Кастальский) (28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1856 – 17 December 1926) was a Russian composer and folklorist. Kastalsky was born in Moscow to protoiereus (a title roughly equivalent to archpriest) Dmitri Ivanovich Kastalsky (1820–1891). He studied music theory, composition and the piano at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1887 he started teaching piano at Moscow Synodal School, and in 1891 became assistant precentor of the Moscow Synodal Choir. He was director of both from 1910–1918 until the school was dissolved and merged with the choral faculty of the Conservatory, and the choir was forced to move from sacred to folk repertory. He wrote his first choral works in 1896. By 1917 he had written over 130 works and established himself as an important composer of the neo-Russian style with an influence on choral composers such as Sergei Rachmaninov, Victor Kalinnikov, Alexander Grechaninov and Pavel Chesnokov. After the 1917 Revolution, he devoted himself to the study of folksongs. This resulted in many choral works from which the most important are The Village Symphony (1923) and Rural Work in Folksongs (1924).
Genre: choral
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- Memory Eternal to the Fallen Heroes: III. Give Rest, O Our Saviour
- Memory Eternal to the Fallen Heroes: III. Give Rest, O Our Saviour
- The Great Doxology No. 2, Op. 57
- Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom: No. 1, Great Litany
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- St. Simeon's Prayer, "Lord, Now Lettest Thou Thy Servant Depart in Peace"
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- A Fragment of the Rehearsal in March 12, 1977
- Brotherly Prayer for the Fallen Heroes: No. 12, Eternal Glory to Those Who Gave Life for Peace
- Brotherly Prayer for the Fallen Heroes: Interlude
- Brotherly Prayer for the Fallen Heroes: No. 11, Patrol Peace
- Brotherly Prayer for the Fallen Heroes: No. 10, Love and Sorrow
- Brotherly Prayer for the Fallen Heroes: No. 9, Wrath of Retribution is My Sword!
- Brotherly Prayer for the Fallen Heroes: Interlude
- Brotherly Prayer for the Fallen Heroes: No. 8, The Word of the Motherland’s Sons
- Brotherly Prayer for the Fallen Heroes: No. 7,The Feat of Wives and Mothers
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