Paul Juon

Paul Fiodorovitch Juon (in), born the March 6th 1872 with Moscow and dead the August 21st 1940 with Vevey, is a type-setter of Russian opera, called the “Russian Brahms”.

Biography

It is born in Russia from a Swiss family which had settled there for professional reasons. In 1889, it enters to the Conservatoire of Moscow. He studies the Violon with the professor Jan Himaly and the composition with Sergueï Taneiev and Anton Arenski. He is then the school-fellow of Serge Rachmaninov. In 1894, it decides to leave for Berlin in order to improve with the violin. It is however its talent for the composition which will be worth to him to receive the Prix Mendelssohn in 1896.

To provide for its needs, it accepts a post of professor with Bakou but ends up preferring to be established in Berlin in 1897 where the editor Robert Lienau publishes his first works. There will remain professor with the academy of Berlin until in 1934 after having been allowed in 1917 in the circle very snuffed of the “German type-setters” and, in 1919, elected member of the Academy of the Art schools of Berlin. Very required and appreciated in Europe during the Twenties, it obtains the Prix Beethoven in 1927.

In 1934, for family and political reasons, he asks his early withdrawal. The Nazi regime refuses to pour it to him. It then joined part of its family in Suisse in Vevey where it spends the last years of its existence. He dies in 1940 victim of the lapse of memory of the Russian after the revolution of 1917 and of the Germans because of the Nazisme as well as Europe then in full war.

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Biography of Paul Juon

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