Boris Karlovich Yanivsky (* 31 December 1875, Moscow - † 19 January 1933, Kharkiv) was a composer, music critic, conductor and teacher of German descent. His real surname was Siegl.
Biography.
Born in Moscow (the son of Karl Siegl).
Until 1910 he lived in Kyiv, where he graduated from the Galagan College and Kyiv University (1903). He worked as a conductor, teacher and critic. From 1910 he lived in St. Petersburg, and from 1916-17 he was conductor of the S. Zimin Opera House in Moscow. In 1918, he returned to Ukraine, teaching at the Music College and the Music and Drama Institute in Kharkiv.
Creativity
Works: 10 operas, including "Sorochinsky Fair" (1899, based on N. Gogol), "Sister Beatrice" (based on M. Maeterlinck, 1907), "The Explosion" (1927), "Duma Chornomorskaya" or "Samailo Kishka" (1928), ballets: "Arabian Night" (1916) and "Ferendzhi" (1930), "Oriental Suite" for symphony orchestra and the poems "Viy" (after N. Gogol) and "Faun and the Shepherdess", string quartet, piano works, choral, solo singing, and arrangements of folk songs.
