Studiul Artelor şi Culturologie: Istorie, Teorie, Practică (Jun 2016)
THE ACTIVITY OF MIHAIL BEREZOVSCHI REFLECTED IN THE DOCUMENTS OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE DURING TSARIST BESSARABIA
Abstract
Currently, the religious musical creation of the great forerunner of Bessarabian choral art Mihail Berezovschi is the subject of a doctoral thesis which is in progress and whereas it is known that the compositional activity of an author reflects his artistic preoccupations and, at the same time, presents itself as a natural continuation of the events from the author’s life, the componistic result itself is a reflection of his spiritual experiences, we tried to reconstruct at first the composer’s main biographical data with information as truthful as possible, culled from archival sources that are kept in the National Archive of the Republic of Moldova’s funds. Within this article, we presented the results of a careful analysis of the information gathered from the 467, 491, 493 tabs files 9 inventory from Fund 1862, also the 116, 122, 136, 157, 170, 202, 215 files 12 inventory from Fund 208, dating from the period when Bessarabia was a Russian Province and which have proven to be some really interesting documents coming to bring new light beams in the biography of the composer, conductor, pedagogue and last but not least the priest Mihail Berezovschi.
