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Panchenko, Semyon
PANCHENKO, Semyon Viktorovich (b. 1867, Sudzhansky Uezd, in today’s Kursk district; d. 1937, place of death unknown) — studied composition with A. Liadov; in the 1900s had a private music school in St. Petersburg; concertized as a symphony conductor. Later relinquished conducting and occupied himself with composition; besides sacred works, composed piano works, romances, etc. Panchenko’s published sacred works number more than 125 (publ. by P. Jurgenson, et al.), including complete cycles of the Divine Liturgy, the All-Night Vigil, the Memorial Service, etc. The greater part of Panchenko’s works comprises arrangements primarily of the so-called Court Chant, written in a rich, chordal style for six to eight voices. Besides these, Panchenko compiled a “Folk Obikhod” — numerous arrangements of the simplest common chants in a harmonization replete with empty fifths and fourths, unison cadences, etc.; these arrangements, however, did not receive widespread use in church-musical practice. Some of Panchenko’s original sacred compositions employ a musical language considered at the time to be modernistic. Panchenko was connected to the symbolist poets; he was friends with Alexander Blok and in 1903 became the first to set Blok’s poetry to music. According to some sources, Panchenko emigrated at some point after the Revolution, and lived in Berlin and Geneva, devoting himself entirely to composition.
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Cherubic Hymn
Op. 24
Izhe kheruvimy
SSAATTBB (divisi)
PJu #29162 1904
First printed edition
13
Pa031
Cherubic Hymn
Op. 61, No. 1
Izhe kheruvimy
S(div)A(div)T(div)B(div)
PJu #33309 n.d.
First printed edition
5
Pa098
Cherubic Hymn
Op. 61, No. 2
Izhe kheruvimy
SATB
PJu #33310 n.d.
First printed edition
3
Pa099
Cherubic Hymn
Op. 61, No. 3
Izhe kheruvimy
S(div)A(div)T(div)B(div)
PJu #33311 n.d.
First printed edition
Defective original
3
Pa100
Praise God in His sanctuary
N.O.N.
Sacred concerto
Ps. 150
SATB
Supplement to Prikhodskoe chtenie, No. 44 (1913)
First printed edition
3
Pa122
Praise the Lord from the heavens
Op. 46, No. 1
Paraphrase based on the melody: Da molchit,
Communion Hymn for Sundays
Ps. 148:1
SATB
PJu #31870 n.d.
First printed edition
2
Pa061
Praise the Lord, O servants
N.O.N.
Sacred concerto
Ps. 111[112]
SATB
Supplement to Prikhodskoe chtenie, No. 23 (1916)
First printed edition
3
Pa123
All the angels in heaven rejoice
Op. 76
Lity Sticheron for the Nativity of the Lord
SATB
Supplement to Prikhodskoe chtenie, No. 23 (1916)
First printed edition
2
Pa121
Liturgiia Sv. Ioanna Zlatousta kharaktera narodnogo
The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in a folk style
Op. 21
SSA; TTB
PJu #33954; P.1160 S. 1902.
First printed edition
Defective original
36
Pa030
Liturgiia Sv. Ioanna Zlatousta po napevam Pridvornogo obikhoda
The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom according to melodies used at the Imperial Court
Op. 20
SSA; TTB
PJu #33953; P.1160 S. 1902.
First printed edition
37
Pa029