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Andrei Sychra

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31: 125:, first appeared in 1826, and was published, presumably monthly, for the next 12 years; 144 issues survive. He also published many individual pieces. The Stellovsky-Gutheil editions alone contain 75 numbers, of which most consist of several compositions. In all Sychra published more than 1,000 pieces for the seven-string guitar, and left many in manuscript, including complete arrangements for two guitars of 227:(1999a). "The Golden Age of the Russian Guitar: Repertoire, Performance Practice, and Social Function of the Russian Seven-String Guitar Music, 1800–1850 (Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Music, Duke University)" (Document). Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Dissertation Services (UMI Number: 9928880). pp. xviii, 584. 80:, and also as its inventor, disputed though that may be. He was a major force in the development of Russian guitar music and one of its most prolific composers, as well as an important teacher who trained a number of students. 175:, but are also musically innovative. Much of Sychra's guitar music, especially the teaching pieces and studies, reproduces harp sonorities on the guitar, perhaps as a result of his early career as a harpist. His 167:
as a mediocre composer. Among these compositions, however, are many that require the highest level of virtuoso technique, and which not only employ techniques not known in the
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Sychra wrote a large number of pieces for amateurs, including studies, folk song settings, operatic transcriptions and arrangements of
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Interest in Sychra's composition and guitar technique has received renewed attention following the revival of his work by Dr.
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as containing 50 pieces in each of its six issues. A further journal appeared in 1824. The most important of his journals,
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of that year, he moved to St Petersburg, where he remained for the rest of his life. In 1802 Sychra published the
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early in 1801, and became the dominant figure in the field, gaining a huge following. In 1812, perhaps because of
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ancestry. Sychra holds a prominent position within Russia, where he is often referred to as the patriarch of the
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in St Petersburg. He published another journal in 1818, advertised in the
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Andrey Sychra

Vilnius
St Petersburg
guitarist
composer
Czech
seven-string guitar
harp
torban
virtuoso
Moscow
Napoleon
Moscow fire
Peterburgskij žurnal dlja gitary
Glinka
A Life for the Tsar
Ruslan and Lyudmila
Viennese waltzes
Johann Strauss
Carl Maria von Weber
Josef Lanner
Soviet-era
musicologists
West
four-finger cross-string trill
magnum opus
Oleg Timofeyev
Timofeyev 1999a
Timofeyev 1999b

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