Rupin Ivan Alekseyevich

Main article: History of music in Russia

Ivan Alekseevich Rupini (Rupin) (1792-1850) - Russian singer (tenor) and composer, collector and arranger of Russian folk songs.

Biography

Born in 1792 in the village of Slavistovo, Chukhlomsky district, Kostroma province, in the family of a serf peasant, a famous lover of music and singing, stalmeister Pyotr Ivanovich Yushkov, Alexei Rupinin.

From childhood he sang in the church choir; possessed an excellent viola, which later turned into a tenor. He was given by the owner Yushkov to teach singing to Musceti, the famous Italian singer who lived in Moscow at the beginning of the 19th century. Musceti converted the Russian surname of his gifted student into Italian - Rupini.

In 1811, Rupini received free and moved to St. Petersburg, where he soon became known as a performer of Russian songs. In St. Petersburg, under the direction of opera conductor T.V. Zhuchkovsky, he was engaged in harmony and polyphony, and also improved in the performance of tenor parts of Italian operas. He met Pushkin, Tumansky, Delvig and other writers, whose works he used to create musical works - he wrote about 50 romances and songs to the words of A. A. Delvig, A. S. Pushkin, F. N. Glinka, F. A. Koni and others. The song "Here rushes the three removing" (p. F.N. Glinka) became a famous folk song.

In 1832, together with Zhuchkovsky, he composed the vaudeville opera Name of the Beneficent Landowner. He collected and processed Russian folk songs, performed them in concerts. Soon he gained fame as a good singing teacher; N. Samoilova, M. Stepanova, O. Petrov studied with him.

He published: "A collection of 12 national Russian songs arranged on f. p. With singing and choirs, published by the singing teacher I. A. Rupini "(Vol. 1. - St. Petersburg, 1831; No. 2. - St. Petersburg, 1833) [1]; "Seven folk Russian songs, laid on one voice with variations and accompaniment f. p. "(St. Petersburg, 1836)," Bouquet "(Collection of selected romances; St. Petersburg, 1839), "Russian singer and piano player" (Collection of songs by A. Snegirev with melodies by I. Rupini; St. Petersburg, 1836-1837)

In 1840, his wife died, Rupini fell into apathy and soon found himself in need, forcing him to enter the theater in 1843 as a choirmaster of Italian opera. Gradually, he was forgotten by the public and died on March 22 (April 3), 1850 in poverty, "in his small apartment near Nikola Morskoy," in St. Petersburg; was buried in the Smolensk cemetery.

His son, Peter Ivanovich Rupini (? - 24.04.1893) - artist of the Imperial Theaters.