Mikhail Savoyarov (Russian: ÐœÐ¸Ñ…Ð°Ð¸Ì Ð» Ð Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð»Ð°Ì ÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡
Ð¡Ð°Ð²Ð¾Ñ Ì Ñ€Ð¾Ð², Mikhai'l NikoláeviÄ Savoyárov) (18 November
[O.S. 30 November] 1876, Moscow â€" 4 August 1941, Moscow) was a
Russian chansonnier, composer, poet, comic actor and mime. In the
first quarter of the 20th century he was a famous satirical
singer-songwriter. His popularity peak was in the years of war
(1914â€"1917) when he began to be called the «King of eccentrics».
It was also the time when he became friends with Aleksandr Blok.
Considering that the period of his greatest popularity was almost at
the exact time as the brief period of renaming the capital, Savoyarov
can be called the Petrograd artist in the strict sense of the
word.Mikhail Nikolayevich Savoyarov (Solovyov) was born on 30 November
1876 in Moscow. As a child he didn't receive music education. He
learned to play violin without a teacher, also took private lessons.
In the end of the 1890s Savoyarov moved to Saint Petersburg, started
working as a violinist in a private opera house, and then in the
Palace Theatre. The repertoire of these theatres included mostly
operettas, which influenced his style. Savoyarov made his début on
stage as an operetta tenor comedian by chance substituting for an ill
actor. He had a success though not grand. Having an independent
streak, soon he quit the theatre and started living on his own
resources. Since 1905 he was seen playing in musical single-show
companies (so called “capellas†), Russian, Little Russian, Gipsy
or pseudo-French ones which were in fashion and brought profit.In 1905
Savoyarov began to compose and sing topical songs, set at first to
operetta or folk songs music and later to his own melodies. Poetic and
musical talent advanced him as a singer-songwriter. His repertoire
included mostly songs and trolls accompanied by piano, violin,
dancing, pantomime and eccentric acting often turned into brazen
antics and buffoonery. It's significant that his style of acting
coincides with his last name Savoyarov that comes from French word
savoyard which means a strolling musician, a troubadour from Savoy.In
1907 Savoyarov had a success on fair of Nizhny Novgorod where he
performed together with his first wife Ariadna Azagarina. Earlier she
was famous in single-show companies as a French cabaret singer.
Performing as “French-russian duet†they had a repertoire that
consisted of comic and satiric scenes including singing, dancing,
disguise and impersonations using theatrical costumes, make-up,
mise-en-scènes and even decorations.
Ð¡Ð°Ð²Ð¾Ñ Ì Ñ€Ð¾Ð², Mikhai'l NikoláeviÄ Savoyárov) (18 November
[O.S. 30 November] 1876, Moscow â€" 4 August 1941, Moscow) was a
Russian chansonnier, composer, poet, comic actor and mime. In the
first quarter of the 20th century he was a famous satirical
singer-songwriter. His popularity peak was in the years of war
(1914â€"1917) when he began to be called the «King of eccentrics».
It was also the time when he became friends with Aleksandr Blok.
Considering that the period of his greatest popularity was almost at
the exact time as the brief period of renaming the capital, Savoyarov
can be called the Petrograd artist in the strict sense of the
word.Mikhail Nikolayevich Savoyarov (Solovyov) was born on 30 November
1876 in Moscow. As a child he didn't receive music education. He
learned to play violin without a teacher, also took private lessons.
In the end of the 1890s Savoyarov moved to Saint Petersburg, started
working as a violinist in a private opera house, and then in the
Palace Theatre. The repertoire of these theatres included mostly
operettas, which influenced his style. Savoyarov made his début on
stage as an operetta tenor comedian by chance substituting for an ill
actor. He had a success though not grand. Having an independent
streak, soon he quit the theatre and started living on his own
resources. Since 1905 he was seen playing in musical single-show
companies (so called “capellas†), Russian, Little Russian, Gipsy
or pseudo-French ones which were in fashion and brought profit.In 1905
Savoyarov began to compose and sing topical songs, set at first to
operetta or folk songs music and later to his own melodies. Poetic and
musical talent advanced him as a singer-songwriter. His repertoire
included mostly songs and trolls accompanied by piano, violin,
dancing, pantomime and eccentric acting often turned into brazen
antics and buffoonery. It's significant that his style of acting
coincides with his last name Savoyarov that comes from French word
savoyard which means a strolling musician, a troubadour from Savoy.In
1907 Savoyarov had a success on fair of Nizhny Novgorod where he
performed together with his first wife Ariadna Azagarina. Earlier she
was famous in single-show companies as a French cabaret singer.
Performing as “French-russian duet†they had a repertoire that
consisted of comic and satiric scenes including singing, dancing,
disguise and impersonations using theatrical costumes, make-up,
mise-en-scènes and even decorations.
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