Olenin is a brief biography

Olenin was born on June 13. From the age of six he studied musical notation and playing piano, and at the age of seven he took part in an amateur concert in Kasimov.

In connection with the receipt of A. Olenin - the father of A. Olenin - the position of director of the Stroganov Art School, the family moves to Moscow. Olenin took the lessons of the game on the piano, the theory of music, the composition. In the city in the gg. Olenin lived in St. Petersburg, where in the city of Olenin with the composers of the “mighty pile”, which strengthened his interest in the folk song.

Olenin interrupted music, left from St. Petersburg to the estate in Istomino, and in the fall of the same year he married. Olenin worked in Istomin Zemstvo boss. From G. at the same time, he did not leave his studies of music. But all this did not interfere with him in his main hobby - the collection and processing of folk songs of the Ryazan Territory, in addition, A.

Olenin collected folk clothes, a folk festive suit for many years, collected embroidery. These collections were later with great interest studied by famous ethnographers B. Kuftin and N. Lebedeva, with whom Olenin repeatedly met and helped them in the study of the ethnography of the Ryazan Territory. In particular, B. Kuftin in his book “The Material Culture of the Russian Meshchera” expresses gratitude to “composer A.

Olenin, a native of the Kasimov district, a great lover of folk art and antiquity, rich in local people's material and valuable instructions of which I had the opportunity to use.” A. Olenin began to publish his musical works from G. they are very diverse in genres. The largest, main work is the Opera-song “Kudeyar”, in which the Ryazan musical song folklore was widely used.

The opera was staged on the stage of the Moscow private opera S. Zimin in the GG season. Кроме оперы, перу Оленину принадлежат симфонические поэмы: «Богатырский стан» , «Нечисть» , «Последние проводы» , симфоническая картина «Поле битвы» , концерт для фортепиано с оркестром , фортепианное трио и сонаты, струнные квартеты, луговые наигрыши «Русский квинтет» , сонаты для скрипки и фортепиано, романсы, песни, Processing of Russian and Belarusian songs.

Olenin worked in various musical institutions G. Under the county department of public education, he organized an art studio, within which an opera-concert group was created. Under the leadership of A. Olenin, this group was delivered by musical drama M. Olenin and his family moved to Moscow, where he worked as a member of the Musical and Enotographic Commission of the State Institute of Musical Science and was engaged in the processing of folk songs.

Later he worked as a consultant to the radio committee. He took part in folklore expeditions. Olenina in Ryazan "Evening of the Ryazan Song". Olenina gave as a gift to the ethnographic archive of the Society of Researchers of the Ryazan Territory of the manuscript with the songs of the Kasimov district. Olenin died on February 15