Revol Bunin

Revol Samuilovich Bunin (; 6 April 1924, in Moscow – 4 July 1976, in Moscow) was a Soviet composer. Early life and education Bunin’s father, Samuil Markovich, was a bolshevik, a member of the Communist Party from before the 1917 revolution and worked as a professor of social economics at one of the Moscow Institutes. Bunin was named “Revol” after the October Revolution. Volik (as he was known) was six when he started to write music and he started by writing scores. In the 1930s in Soviet Union score paper was hard to find, so young Bunin would draw lines on plain paper for his compositions. He wrote marches, waltzes, minuets, and polkas. Bunin’s mother was always very ill, and died when he was 14, leaving his upbringing entirely in the hands of his father. When Bunin’s mother was dying, she asked him to play the piano for her. He played Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and Mussorgsky through the night. Next morning he had his first attack of asthma, a disease that would in the end kill him. In 1938 Revol started his composition studies at the Music School of the Moscow Conservatory under Ilya Litinsky. During his third year of studies he was admitted to the Conservatory and continued under