Tsar Iudeiskii. Drama v chetyrekh deistviyakh i pyati kartinakh [King of the Jews. Drama in Four Acts and Five Scenes].
St. Petersburg: [privately printed by the author], 1914. 228 pp. Folio (340 x 260 mm). Music by A. K. Glazunov. Illustrated with numerous tipped in color plates and photographs of the production. Original gray pebbled boards with color lithographed label designed by Petr Liven. Condition : covers rubbed with some soiling, spine chipped at extremities with some loss of lettering at head signed, first privately printed edition of this anti-semitic mystery play by the grandson of nicholas i and uncle of nicholas ii . This liberal retelling of the Passion and Resurrection of Christ through the eyes of a common man challenged the divine right of kings and capitalism. Because the Russian Orthodox Church forbade any figures from the Bible being depicted on the public stage, Grand Duke Konstantin staged his own play in the Hermitage Hall of the Winter Palace for an invited audience only in a series of "rehearsals" in January 1914; approximately 3,000 attended the ten performances. Jesus never appeared on stage but was indicated by the other characters and the music. The Grand Duke himself played Joseph of Arimathea and Michel Fokine supplied the choreography. The play received wide critical praise; and once the ban was lifted after the February Revolution, a full posthumous production was successfully mounted on November 6, 1917. Although later denounced by Soviet critics, this religious play was remarkably popular in the early Bolshevik years. There were several foreign translations, including Victor E. Marsden's English version The King of the Jews: A Sacred Drama (1914). A. K. Glazunov studied with Rimsky-Korsakov, was director of the St. Petersburg Conservatory (later the Leningrad Conservatory) and completed Borodin's famous opera Prince Igor ; his most celebrated student was Dmitri Shoshtakovich. Another student Dmitri Tiomkin thought the music for Tsar Iudeiskii was Glazunov's best work.
Tsar Iudeiskii. Drama v chetyrekh deistviyakh i pyati kartinakh [King of the Jews. Drama in Four Acts and Five Scenes].
St. Petersburg: [privately printed by the author], 1914. 228 pp. Folio (340 x 260 mm). Music by A. K. Glazunov. Illustrated with numerous tipped in color plates and photographs of the production. Original gray pebbled boards with color lithographed label designed by Petr Liven. Condition : covers rubbed with some soiling, spine chipped at extremities with some loss of lettering at head signed, first privately printed edition of this anti-semitic mystery play by the grandson of nicholas i and uncle of nicholas ii . This liberal retelling of the Passion and Resurrection of Christ through the eyes of a common man challenged the divine right of kings and capitalism. Because the Russian Orthodox Church forbade any figures from the Bible being depicted on the public stage, Grand Duke Konstantin staged his own play in the Hermitage Hall of the Winter Palace for an invited audience only in a series of "rehearsals" in January 1914; approximately 3,000 attended the ten performances. Jesus never appeared on stage but was indicated by the other characters and the music. The Grand Duke himself played Joseph of Arimathea and Michel Fokine supplied the choreography. The play received wide critical praise; and once the ban was lifted after the February Revolution, a full posthumous production was successfully mounted on November 6, 1917. Although later denounced by Soviet critics, this religious play was remarkably popular in the early Bolshevik years. There were several foreign translations, including Victor E. Marsden's English version The King of the Jews: A Sacred Drama (1914). A. K. Glazunov studied with Rimsky-Korsakov, was director of the St. Petersburg Conservatory (later the Leningrad Conservatory) and completed Borodin's famous opera Prince Igor ; his most celebrated student was Dmitri Shoshtakovich. Another student Dmitri Tiomkin thought the music for Tsar Iudeiskii was Glazunov's best work.
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