Zavadovsky Gardes (Gerasim)

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Zavadovsky Gordey (Gerasim) - Russian composer, archimandrite, setter, headman (bass), author of part concerts, monodial chants of the Household.

Biography

Born in 1681 in Kozelets, (Chernigov region, Russian kingdom) in a merchant family.

He accepted monasticism in the Chernigov Trinity Monastery, from where he was transferred to the Moscow Epiphany Monastery. Perhaps he lived in Moscow for some time in the Don Monastery.

In 1717 he was sent to St. Petersburg to the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.

In 1722, having not received the expected "dismissal to the fatherland" after the obligatory 5-year service in the St. Petersburg monastery, Gerasim with the clergyman priest. Peter (Kotlyarevsky) tried to escape from the monastery, but both were captured and placed back. He served as a headman and setter in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery for another 10 years, in the manuscript register of the monastery in 1723 he was called the "composer of singing."

In the early 1730s He was transferred to the court service, in 1735 he became "at the singing music" of the royal court the head of the singers.

In 1741 he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite of the Mezhigorsky monastery.

He died in 1745 in Kyiv^[1].

Compositions

Chants of the song Gerasim entered the printed usage (M., 1772. L. 147 vol. - 148, 330 vol. - 334). Gerasimov's chant was quite common in manuscripts related to the activities of the clergy of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery and the St. Petersburg Court Choir.

Gerasim's party compositions were also widely known: for example, 12-voice concerts are kept in the meeting of the Synodal School:

• "The Godfather Slaw David,"
• "God is our refuge and power,"
• "Exclaim all the earth of Jehovah,"
• "Today is the Sovereign Creator,"
• 8-voice concerts "Not Imams of Foreign Help,"
• "On the salvation of the path,"
• "Many of my sins" (RGIA. F. 1119. D. 66).

The Manuscript Cabinet of the Russian Institute of Art History (St. Petersburg) contains a manuscript collection of party concerts written by the court singer Gabriel Golovny, where the composition of Gerasim (F. 2. Op. 1. D. 837. 1758).

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