MATIUSHIN, Mikhail

Matiushin was the fourth collaborator, along with Aleksei Kruchonykh, Kazimir Malevich , and Velimir Khlebnikov in the pathbreaking opera Victory Over the Sun (1913). Though Matiushin was at the time a violinist in the Court Orchestra, where he had worked for the previous twenty years, his music For Victory includes dissonances and sounds evocative of cannon shots and airplanes. Turning to writing and publishing, Matiushin in 1914 established a press, The Crane, printing...