Nikolai Kulbin
Nikolai Ivanovich Kulbin (Николай Иванович Кульбин; 1868, Helsinki - 1917, Petrograd) was a Russian military doctor, painter, graphic artist, art theorist, music theorist and patron of Russian Futurism.
He was running a salon in St. Petersburg, a kind of informal association (in Russia this kind of establishment was called kruzhok, which was a very popular form of informal association, most typical for artists, poets and musicians all around the country) that included most Russian avant-garde artists, composers, poets, scholars and so forth, which permitted him to spread his ideas among the artistic community. Although he died on 6 March 1917 just after the February revolution, his influence on the young generation of revolutionary artists and scholars was significant. Among his direct or indirect followers were Arseny Avraamov, Leonid Sabaneev, Arthur Lourie and many others. (in Andrey Smirnov, Sound in Z, 2012, p 24)
- Writings
- Svobodnaya muzyka. Primeneniye novoy teorii khudozhestvennogo tvorchestva k muzyke [Свободная музыка. Применение новой теории художественного творчества к музыке], St. Petersburg, 1909, 7 pp. (in Russian) [1]
- "Slobodnaya muzika", in Studiia impressionistov, ed. Nikolai Kulbin, St. Petersburg: Butovskoi, 1910. (in Russian) [2]
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