Konstantin Petrovich Villebois |

Konstantin Villebois

Wilboa. Seila (Ivan Ershov)

Sa tausia aʻe o ia i le vaega o cadet, sa avea ma faatonu o le aufaipese a tamaiti aoga. I le 1853-1854 na ia taʻitaʻia ai le tali a le au faipese ma le au faili a le Pavlovsky Life Guards Regiment. I le 1856, faatasi ai ma AN Ostrovsky ma VP Engelhardt, sa ia auai i se malaga talatuu i luga o le Volga. Mai le afa lona lua o le 2s. nofo i Kharkov, lea na ia faatulagaina ai se aoga musika saoloto "mo tamaiti o vasega uma", lauga i le talafaasolopito ma le teori o musika i le iunivesite, o se taitai o le fale tapere ma se aufaaili tumaoti. Mai le 60 na ia auauna ai i Warsaw. Sa masani o ia ma MI Glinka, AS Dargomyzhsky, ma le faitio AA Grigoriev. O Vilboa e ana le claviers o lua tala faamusika a Glinka ma se faatulagaga mo piano i 1867 lima o lana "Kamarinskaya".

O Vilboa o le tusitala o pese taʻutaʻua ma tafaoga i aso uma, e aofia ai le taʻaloga totoa-romanti "Sailors" ("Our Sea is Unsociable", lyrics by HM Yazykov), "Dumka" (lirics by TG Shevchenko), "On the Air Ocean" (pese a M. Yu. Lermontov). O Vilboa e ona: opera - "Natasha, poʻo le Volga Robbers" (1861, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow), "Taras Bulba", "Gypsy" (e leʻi faʻasalalau uma); musika mo le tala faatino The Maid of Pskov by Mei (1864, Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg). O le faagasologa o pese a tagata e taua tele - "Russian Folk Songs" [100], ed. AA Grigorieva (1860, 2nd ed. 1894), "Russian romances and folk songs" (1874, 2nd ed. 1889), faatulagaga o pese mo le decomp. meafaifaaili (“150 pese a tagata Rusia”), ma isi.