Friedrich Efimovich Scholz |

Friedrich Scholz

Born October 5, 1787 in Gernstadt (Silesia). German by nationality.

From 1811 he worked in St. Petersburg, in 1815 he moved to Moscow, in 1820-1830 he was a bandmaster of the imperial Moscow theaters.

Author of many interludes divertissements, vaudeville operas, as well as 10 ballets, including: “Christmas Games” (1816), “Cossacks on the Rhine” (1817), “Nevsky Walk” (1818), “Ruslan and Lyudmila, or the Overthrow of Chernomor, the Evil Wizard” (after A. S. Pushkin, 1821), “Ancient Games, or Yuletide Evening” (1823), “Three Talismans” (1823), “Three Belts, or Russian Sandrilona” (1826 ), “Polyphemus, or the Triumph of Galatea” (1829). All ballets were staged in Moscow by choreographer A.P. Glushkovsky.

Scholz died on October 15 (27), 1830 in Moscow.