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Factory: machine-music (Russian: Завод: музыка машин, Zavod: muzyka mashin), Op. 19, commonly referred to as the Iron Foundry, is the most well-known work by Soviet composer Alexander Mosolov and a prime example of Soviet futurist music. It was composed between 1926 and 1927 as the first movement of the ballet suite Stal ("Steel
Alexander Mosolov in the 1950s. Alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov [n 1] (Russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Мосоло́в, romanized: Aleksandr Vasil'evič Mosolov; 11 August [O.S. 29 July] 1900 – 11 July 1973) was a composer of the early Soviet era, known best for his early futurist piano sonatas, orchestral episodes, and vocal music.
This is a selected list of compositions by Alexander Mosolov.It includes all works with an opus number regardless of the date of publication as well as all known works composed before 1936, as it has been noted that it was "impossible to discern the former avant-gardist in the works written from the late thirties onward" (Frolova-Walker 1998, p. 336n8).
Mechanical Ballet may refer to: Mechanical Ballet, a 1931 ballet by Adolph Bolm set to the composition Iron Foundry by Alexander Mosolov "Mechanical Ballet", a song from the 1992 opera The Voyage by Philip Glass; Ballet Mécanique, a 1924 project by the American composer George Antheil and the filmmaker/artists Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy
Alexander Mosolov, whose orchestral composition Iron Foundry (1923) is made up of mechanical and repetitive patterns. George Antheil, whose 1924 Ballet Mecanique is characterized by much use of motoric and repetitive patterns, as well as an instrumentation made up of multiple player pianos and mallet percussion.
Well-known examples include Alexander Mosolov's Iron Foundry (1926–27) and Sergei Prokofiev's Le Pas d'acier (The Steel Step, 1926). An example from outside of the Soviet Union is George Antheil's Ballet mécanique (1923–24).
The Guardian wrote in 2018 that Ashkenazy conducted pieces by Prokofiev and Glière as if he had been "born to do it" during a concert series that explored the musical response to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, including composer Alexander Mosolov's Iron Foundry (1927) and the suite from The Red Poppy, a ballet with music by Glière. [24]
Wrote Epitaffio for orchestra and tape, the ballet The Storm and Solitaire; ... Alexander Mosolov (1900–1973) Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881) Nikolai Myaskovsky ...