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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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Three Trisagion Hymns
Op. 16
SATB; SSAA; TBB
PJu #27657-9 1902
First printed edition
11
Pa001-003
The Great Litany
Op. 30, No. 1
Abbreviated Znamenny Chant
Gospodi, pomilui
For large choir: S(div)AT(div)B
PJu #31178 1905
First printed edition
4
Pa038
The Great Litany
Op. 30, No. 2
Abbreviated Znamenny Chant
Gospodi, pomilui
For small choir: SATB
PJu #31178 1905
First printed edition
1
Pa039
The Great Litany
Op. 30, No. 3
Abbreviated Znamenny Chant
Gospodi, pomilui
SATB
PJu #31179 1905
First printed edition
2
Pa040
The Great Litany
Op. 30, No. 4
Abbreviated Znamenny Chant
Gospodi, pomilui
For large choir: S(div)AT(div)B(div)
PJu #31180 1905
First printed edition
1
Pa041
The Great Litany
Op. 30, No. 5
Abbreviated Znamenny Chant
Gospodi, pomilui
For small choir: SATB
PJu #31180 1905
First printed edition
1
Pa042
O taste and see
Op. 62, No. 4
Communion Hymn from the Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified Gifts
Ps. 33[34]:9
S(div)A(div)T(div)B(div)
PJu #33320 n.d.
First printed edition
3
Pa105
In Thy kingdom
Op. 54, No. 3
Matthew 5:3-12
S(div)A(div)T(div)B
PJu #32747 n.d.
First printed edition
5
Pa096
Voskliknite Bogovi, vsia zemlia
Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands
[Op. 74, No. 2]
Sacred concerto
Ps. 99[100]
SATB
Supplement to Prikhodskoe chtenie, No. 15 (1915)
First printed edition
2
Pa119
Vsenoshchnaia. Staro-tserkovnye raspevy.
All-Night Vigil. Ancient Church Chants.
Op. 19
various chants
SSA; TTB
PJu #34306
First printed edition
84
Pa028