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Pavel Chesnokov
Person · male · Russian Empire · Zvenigorodsky Uyezd · born 1877 · died 1944 · recording since 1991
Russian composer (1877–1944)
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Also known as Pavel Chesnokov · Павел Чесноков · P. Tschesnokoff · P. Tschesnokow · Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov · Pavel P. Tchesnokov · +7 more
Timeline
7 events▣ Album 4◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1
1870s
1940s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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2010s
2020s
Biography
English biography419 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1372133552
Biography
Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov (Russian: Пáвел Григóрьевич Чеснокóв) (24 October 1877, Voskresensk, Zvenigorodsky Uyezd, Moscow Governorate – 14 March 1944, Moscow, also transliterated Tschesnokoff, Tchesnokov, Tchesnokoff, and Chesnokoff) was an Imperial Russian and Soviet composer, choral conductor and teacher. He composed over five hundred choral works, over four hundred of which are sacred. Today, he is most known for his piece Salvation is Created as well as works such as Do Not Reject Me in Old Age (solo for basso profondo) and movements from various settings of the Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom.
Life
Chesnokov was born in Vladimir, near Moscow, on 24 October 1877. While attending the Moscow Conservatory, he received extensive training in both instrumental and vocal music including nine years of solfège, and seven years training for both the piano and violin. His studies in composition included four years of harmony, counterpoint, and form. During his years at the school, he had the opportunity to study with prominent Russian composers like Sergei Taneyev and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, who greatly influenced his style of liturgy-driven choral composition.
At an early age, Chesnokov gained recognition as a great conductor and choirmaster while leading many groups including the Russian Choral Society Choir. This reputation earned him a position on staff at the Moscow Conservatory where great composers and music scholars like Tchaikovsky had shared their skills and musical insight. There he founded a choral conducting program, which he taught from 1920 until his death.
By the age of 30, Chesnokov had completed nearly four hundred sacred choral works, but his proliferation of church music came to a standstill at the time of the Russian revolution. Under communist rule, no one was permitted to produce any form of sacred art. So in response, he composed an additional hundred secular works, and conducted secular choirs like the Moscow Academy Choir and the Bolshoi Theatre Choir. In the Soviet era, religion was often under oppression. Thus, the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, whose last choirmaster had been Chesnokov, was destroyed, which disturbed him so deeply that he stopped writing music altogether.
Chesnokov died on 14 March 1944 of a heart attack caused by malnutrition while he was waiting in a Moscow bread line.
Some notable works
Corpus
Salvation is Created (1912)
O Lord God
Duh Tvoy Blagiy ("Let Thy Good Spirit")
Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, Op.24
"Da Ispravitsya Molitva Moya" ("Let My Prayer Arise"), Op.24 No.6
To Thee We Sing (We Praise Thee), Op.27
Panikhída, Op.39
Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op.42
All-night vigil, Op.44
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 14 | 70.2th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 4 | 78.1th |
| Studio albums | 4 | 82.8th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 7 | 82.6th |
| Recording span (years) | -47 | 6.7th |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (4 release groups · 4 studio albums)
Albums · 4
Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
1991 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 1:10:44
1Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, op. 42: Great Ektene9:082Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, op. 42: “Glory to the Father and the Only-Begotten Son”9:163Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, op. 42: “Lord, Save”9:064Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, op. 42: The Cherubic Hymn6:215Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, op. 42: “The Creed”7:076Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, op. 42: “A Mercy of Peace” and “To Thee We Sing”7:367Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, op. 42: “It is Meet”4:528Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, op. 42: Ektene of Supplication “Our Father”5:539Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, op. 42: “Praise the Lord From the Heavens”2:0710Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, op. 42: Conclusion9:182018 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:07:22
1Bless the Lord, O My Soul3:072Blessed Is the Man5:033Gladsome Light2:464Lord, Now Lettest Thou3:265Praise the Name of the Lord3:026Blessed Art Thou, O Lord7:517Having Beheld the Resurrection of Christ2:578Jesus Has Risen From the Tomb0:579The Great Doxology9:1010Bless the Lord, O My Soul3:1811Glory… Only Begotten Son2:3112Cherubic Hymn8:2113A Mercy of Peace and We Hymn Thee7:1314It Is Truly Fitting3:2315Salvation Is Created4:172023 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 1:05:40
1Cherubic Hymn, op. 7 no. 14:232Spaseniye sodelal, op. 25 no. 53:463Angel vopiyashe, op. 22 no. 183:374O Tebe raduyetsia, op. 15 no. 114:455All-night Vigil, op. 44: Blagoslovi, dushe moya, Ghospoda2:516All-night Vigil, op. 44: Blazhen muzh5:437All-night Vigil, op. 44: Svete tihiy3:558All-night Vigil, op. 44: Nine otpushchayeshi3:319All-night Vigil, op. 44: Hvalite imia Ghospodne4:2210All-night Vigil, op. 44: Tropari voskresni “Angelskiy sobor”6:4711All-night Vigil, op. 44: Ot yunosti moyeya4:3912All-night Vigil, op. 44: Voskreseniye Hristovo videvshe5:0513All-night Vigil, op. 44: Slavosloviye velikoye9:4314All-night Vigil, op. 44: Vzbrannoy voyevode2:33Sacred Compositions - Pavel Chesnokov
2025 · studio album
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Tracklist · 21 tracks · 1:04:07
1A Prudent Robber No. 4, Op. 61:492The Blessed I No. 7, Op. 252:103The Blessed Man No. 2, Op. 273:104Mercy of Peace No. 6, Op. 275:125Thy Last Suppe No. 9, Op. 272:236Meet It Is, in Truth, to Bless Thee No. 3, Op. 381:567Holy Mother of God No. 1, Op. 432:268How to Call Thee, Oh the Graceful Mother of God No. 2, Op. 433:099Open the Gates of Mercy No. 3, Op. 432:0110Never Keep Secret From You, Mother of God No. 4, Op. 432:3511We Come to Thy Mercy No. 5, Op. 433:1612Diligent Protector No. 6, Op. 433:1813Let Us Take Refuge in the Holy Mother of God No. 7, Op. 433:4814Bless the Lord, o My Soul No. 1, Op. 442:0315The Blessed Man (For Bass and Choir) No. 2, Op. 444:3116O Gentle Light of Holy Glory No. 3, Op. 443:2417Praise the Name of the Lord No. 5, Op. 442:2618Having Beheld the Resurrection of Christ No. 8, Op. 444:4919Why Hast Thou Rejected Me No. 1, Op. 493:1920From My Youth (For Bariton and Male Choir) No. 1, Op. 483:2321An Angel Hath Exclaimed (For Soprano and Choir) (During the Week of the Holy Easter Is Sung Instead of "Meet It Is, in Truth") No. 18, Op. 222:59
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Pavel Chesnokov head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 14 | 70.2th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 4 | 78.1th |
| Studio albums | 4 | 82.8th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 7 | 82.6th |
| Recording span (years) | -47 | 6.7th |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
Awards & honours
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