Pavel Chesnokov
Biography
Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov (Russian: Пáвел Григóрьевич Чеснокóв) (24 October 1877, Voskresensk, Zvenigorodsky Uyezd, Moscow Governorate – 14 March 1944, Moscow, also transliterated Tschesnokoff, Tchesnokov, Tchesnokoff, and Chesnokoff) was an Imperial Russian and Soviet composer, choral conductor and teacher. He composed over five hundred choral works, over four hundred of which are sacred. Today, he is most known for his piece Salvation is Created as well as works such as Do Not Reject Me in Old Age (solo for basso profundo) and movements from various settings of the Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
744 releases · 100 albums · active 1950–2023
- Performance · 1,221
- Other credits · 96
Studios: Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria · Smolensk Cathedral · Cathedral Of St. Peter And St. Paul · Moscow Conservatory
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Nicolai Gedda
- Ковчег (2)
- The Male Choir Of St. Petersburg
- The Russian Patriarchate Choir
- Chœur Saint-Jean-Damascène
- Turun Ortodoksisen Kirkon Kuoro
- Boris Christoff