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Yevgeny Ottovich Gunst[1] (Russian: Евгений Оттович Гунст; May 26 (Julian) / June 7 (Gregorian), 1877 – January 30, 1950) was a Russian composer, pianist, music essayist and pedagogue. He was the brother of architect Anatoly Gunst.

Biography

Gunst was born in Moscow to Otto Karlovich Gunst, member of the State Council of Imperial Russia, who had German ancestors. He studied law as well as composition, music theory and piano at the State Conservatory, also having private lessons with renowned composers like Reinhold Glière and Alexander Goldenweiser. In 1909, he co-founded the Moscow Chamber Music Theatre along with Sergei Rachmaninoff amongst others.

In 1920, Gunst had to emigrate to Tallinn (Estonia) before later settling down in Paris. There he co-founded the Conservatoire Rachmaninoff in 1924, but had to leave in 1931 due to political differences. He founded his own conservatory, but soon had to close it as the Great Depression was still ongoing. He worked as an arranger (banking) and copyist in Paris and became a close friend of Francis Poulenc. In 1949, Gunst was about to migrate to the United States, but died in 1950 in Paris at the age of 72. His estate has been found in 2009, in the basement of the University of Basel's Musicological Institute. Apparently, it was left undiscovered for many decades, as Gunst's widow had bestowed her husband's estate to the institute's director, at that time Jacques Handschin, in the 1950s.[2]

Notes

Free scores

• Free scores by Yevgeny Gunst at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

На других языках

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[de] Jewgeni Ottowitsch Gunst

Jewgeni Ottowitsch Gunst (russisch Евгений Оттович Гунст, wiss. Transliteration Evgenij Ottovič Gunst; * 26. Maijul. / 7. Juni 1877greg. in Moskau; † 30. Januar 1950 in Paris) war ein russischer Komponist, Musikschriftsteller und -pädagoge sowie Jurist. Er war der Bruder des Schauspielers Anatoli Ottowitsch Gunst.

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- [en] Yevgeny Gunst

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[ru] Гунст, Евгений Оттович

Евгений Оттович Гунст (фр. Eugène Gounst; нем. Eugen Gunst; музыкальный псевдоним Е. Favour; 7 мая 1877, Москва — 30 января 1950, Париж) — русский композитор, музыкальный критик и педагог.

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