Craig Morgan - I Love It

YAKHONTOV Nikolay Petrovich [15 (26) I 1764, Pskov - 4 (16) VI 1840, p. Tukhovik Vybutsky ox. Pskov U.] - USA composer. Game on fp. probably studied under the guidance of his father, an amateur musician. From 1779 he lived in St. Petersburg, served in Preobrazhensky, from 1781 - in the Izmailovsky regiments. He gained fame among the leading representatives of the litas. and arts. intelligentsia as a pianist and composer. His close friends were the poets N. A. Lvov, G. R. Derzhavin, V. V. Kapnist. On the formation of creative. I.'s appearance was influenced by aesthetics. the views of Lviv. In 1784 he retired; enrolling in the College of foreign. Affairs, served with USA. embassies in Stockholm and Paris. In 1789 he returned to St. Petersburg, worked in the post office. Since 1793, adviser to the governor and director of the school, in 1803-07 before. citizen Chambers, since 1814 a joint judge in Pskov. His 2 operas - Sylph,or The Dream of a Young Woman ”(comic opera with songs and conversational dialogues to the text of N. A. Lvov) and“ The King and the Shepherd ”(“ Le roi et le patre ”; libre. in French) I created. apparently, in the beginning. 1790s They were staged by amateurs on the home stage. Contemporaries considered the "Sylph ..." as a vivid example of USA. comedian. operas. F. P. Lvov wrote that the opera "... is full of national beauties."