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Vladimir Bakaleinikov

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Vladimir Romanovich Bakaleinikov, also Bakaleynikov and Bakaleinikoff (; 3 October 1885 in Moscow – 5 November 1953 in Pittsburgh) was a Russian-American violist, music educator, conductor and composer. Life and career Bakaleinikov, the son of a noted clarinetist, was from a large musical family who lived in poverty. His elder brother was flautist, composer and conductor Nikolai Bakaleinikov (1881–1957), his younger brothers, both composers, were Mikhail (Mischa) Bakaleinikov (1890–1960) and Constantin Bakaleinikoff (1898–1966). :“My father earned very little. We children helped him by playing at weddings, in restaurants, giving lessons, and later concertizing. We did not refuse any type of work. It was shameful not to be working, seeing as our mother did all of the washing, cooking, sewing, and waited on us all.” :::— Vladimir Bakaleinikov: Notes of a Musician :«Мой отец зарабатывал очень мало. Мы, дети, помогали ему зарабатывать игрой на свадьбах, в ресторанах, давая уроки, впоследствии концертируя. Никакими видами труда мы, дети, не гнушались. Стыдно было не работать, видя, как наша мать на всех стирала, на всех готовила, всех обшивала и всем прислуживала.» :::— Владимир Бакалей

Vladimir Cosma

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Vladimir Cosma (born 13 April 1940) is a Romanian composer, conductor and violinist, who has made his career in France and the United States. He was born into a family of musicians. His father Teodor Cosma was a pianist and conductor, and his mother Carola Pimper a writer-composer. His uncle Edgar Cosma was a composer and conductor. One of Vladimir’s grandmothers, a pianist, was a student of Ferruccio Busoni. Career After receiving first prizes for violin and composition at the Bucharest Conservatory, Vladimir Cosma arrived in Paris in 1963 and continued his studies at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris, working with Nadia Boulanger. As well as for classical music, he discovered early on a passion for jazz, film music and all forms of popular music. From 1964 he made a number of international tours as a concert violinist and began to devote himself more and more to composing. He wrote various compositions including: Trois mouvements d’été for symphony orchestra, Oblique for violoncello and string orchestra, music for theatre and ballet (Volpone for the Comédie Française, the opera Fantômas…). In 1968, Yves Robert entrusted him with his first film music for A

Vladimir Dashkevich

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Vladimir Sergeevich Dashkevich () (born 20 January 1934) is a Russian composer, known mainly for his film music. Originally, he studied chemical technology at Moscow State University of Fine Chemical Technologies, but he later studied music under Aram Khachaturian. He achieved prominence in Russia for his music for the series of films The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, as well as numerous other films. His longtime collaboration with famous singer Elena Kamburova has resulted in a number of vocal cycles based on the lyrics by the Russian Silver Age poets, including Requiem of Anna Akhmatova. Biography His works include symphonies, operas and musicals, as well as chamber and vocal music. Thus, in 1996, the musical Bumbarash, to which Dashkevich wrote the music, was shown in three performances at the Salzburg Festival in Salzburg as a guest performance of Oleg Tabakov’s Studio Theatre. Main works * Symphony No. 1 (1964) * Faustus, oratorio (1964) * Concerto for cello and orchestra (1973) * Bumbarash, musical (1974) * Classified city (1974) * The Bedbug, opera (1980) * Pippi Longstocking, musical (1980) * Along Unknown Paths (1982) * How to Become Happy (1986) * Symphony

Vladimir Fédorov

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Vladimir Fédorov (5 August 19019 April 1979) was a musicologist, librarian, and composer. He studied with André Pirro at the Schola Cantorum de Paris and studied composition privately with Paul Vidal. He was president of the International Association of Music Libraries (IAML) from 1962 until 1965 and from 1968 until 1971. The Vladimir Fédorov Award is named in his honor, awarded annually by IAML for the best article published in , of which Fédorov was editor-in-chief. Writings *“Sur un manuscrit de Moussorgskii: les différentes éditions de ses Lieder”, RdM, xiii (1932), 10–23 *“Les années d’apprentissage de Moussorgsky”, ReM, nos.137–40 (1933), 196–204 *Moussorgsky: biographie critique (Paris, 1935) *“Le théâtre lyrique en URSS”, Polyphonie, i (1947–8), 78–83 *“Paroles dites, paroles chantées”, Polyphonie, ii (1948), 73–80 *“Notes sur la musicologie médiévale”, Polyphonie, iii (1949), 30–37 *“Peut-on parler d’une école bourguignonne de musique au XVe siècle?”, Les cahiers techniques de l’art, ii (1949), 29–36 *“Bach en France”, Revue internationale de musique, no.8 (1950), 165–71 *“André Pirro (1869–1943) und Yvonne Rokseth (1890–1948)”, Mf, iii (1950), 106–19 *“Interférences”, “Ro

Vladimir Fere

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Vladimir Georgievich Fere (; 20 May 1902 in Kamyshin – 2 September 1971 in Moscow) was a Russian composer. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory in 1925 and later taught there. He was a member of a Kirghiz Republic collective assigned by the Soviet government under a plan to integrate national cultures into the arts. Kyrgyz composer Abdylas Maldybaev provided folk melodies and composed music which was organized and prepared by Fere and Russian composer Vladimir Vlasov into six Soviet state opera and other works. Their first full opera was Ai-churek. The collective is usually hypenated as Vlasov-Fere-Maldi’bayev and also composed the Kirghiz national anthem. Works Works include: *Sonata, for violin and piano, op. 4 (1924–25) *Suite, for piano, op. 6 (1927) *Poems (2) by S. Yesenin, for voice and piano, op. 7 (1928) *Sonata, for piano (1928) *Sonatina Alla barbara, for piano (1928) *Our Children, piano pieces (6) for children, op. 12 (1933) *Ai-Churek, opera in four acts after an episode of the “Manas Epos” (1938–1939) Libretto: D. Tursubekov, D. Bokonbaev and K. Malikov. First performance in 1939 in Frunse. *String Quartet on Kirghiz Themes, op. 27 (1946) *Manas, opera (1947, 2nd ve

Vladimír Franz

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Vladimír Franz (born 25 May 1959 in Prague, Czechoslovakia), is a Czech composer, painter, university scholar and occasional journalist, poet and playwright. Since the mid-1980s, he has composed stage music for more than 150 theatre performances—for many of which he was awarded national-level prizes. He has also composed a symphony, several operas, oratorios, a musical, a ballet, film music, and music for documentaries and radio plays. His second main area of activities in the field of arts is represented by painting. Since 1991 he has been a lecturer at the Prague’s Faculty of Theatre. In 2012 he was also a registered candidate in the 2013 Czech presidential election. The attention of local and global media has been focused on him due to his extraordinarily extensive tattoos. Biography Franz was born in Prague. He studied at a gymnasium and later at the Faculty of Law of Charles University (1978–1982). During his studies, he took private lectures in painting, composition, art history and music history. After his studies, he did not enter legal practice, but instead spent the 1980s in a variety of jobs, including as a high school teacher. In 1981, he co-founded the theatre Kytka, a

Vladimir Genin

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Vladimir Mikhailovich Genin (born 31 March 1958 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian-German composer, pianist and piano teacher. He has lived in Munich since 1997. Life, career, compositions Vladimir Genin is the son of the writer and musician Mikhail Genin and Elena Spinel. His grandfather Jossif (Joseph) Spinel was a painter and stage designer, who contributed to Sergei Eisenstein’s films Ivan the Terrible and Alexander Nevsky. After graduating in 1977 from the Tchaikovsky Academic Music College at the Moscow State Conservatory, he studied piano at the State Pedagogical University with Alisa Kezheradze and then continued composition with Prof. Roman Ledenev and piano with Prof. Ilya Klyachko at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. His compositional development was strongly influenced by his long friendship with Shostakovich’s pupil Georgy Sviridov. His music has been performed across Europe, Russia, South Korea and the United States by leading orchestras and ensembles, including the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, the Graz Philharmonic and the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna under Oksana Lyniv, as well as

Vladimír Godár

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Vladimír Godár (born 16 March 1956, in Bratislava) is a Slovak classical and film score composer. He is also known for his collaboration with the Czech violinist, singer, and composer Iva Bittová. As an academic, he is a writer, editor, and translator of books on historical music research. He has been active in reviving the music and reputation of 19th-century Slovak composer Ján Levoslav Bella. Godár studied composition under Juraj Pospíšil and piano under Mária Masariková at the Bratislava Conservatory. In 1979, he began work as editor of the music books department of the record label OPUS, and he taught at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava from 1985. His work is little known outside Slovakia, with much of his music released by Slovart. Amongst his compositions is a large-scale sonata for cello dedicated to the memory of Victor Shklovsky. Godár won the 2001 Georges Delerue Award for the score of the film Landscape. His 1998 collection of essays Heretical Quodlibets " is scheduled to be published in English by Dalkey in 2024, as part of its Eastern European Literature series. Selected discography * Concerto Grosso and Partita; conducted by period performance specialist

Vladimir Kashperov

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Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov (, 25 August 1826 – 26 June 1894) was an Imperial Russian composer, theorist and professor. Kashperov was born on 25 August 1826 in Chufarovo within the Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk) province in the Russian empire. He died on 26 June 1894 in the village of Romantsevo, located in the Mozhaysky district, Moscow. Family Kashperov was married to Adel Nikolaevna Kashperova (maidan name: Beketova), a soprano operatic singer. Glinka’s book “The School of Singing” is dedicated to her. He had one daughter named E. V. Kashperova. Life In 1844, he graduated from the School of Guards Ensigns in St. Petersburg, and served in the Life Guards Cuirassier Regiment. Upon leaving military service, he began to devote himself to music. He studied piano with German composers Adolf von Henselt and Hans Vogt. Having been recommended by Mikhail Glinka, in the 1850s he began to take lessons in composition from German musicologist and composer Sieghfried W. Dehn in Berlin. Kashperov then travelled to Italy and lived there for eight years (1857-1865), whereupon he learned the basics of Italian vocal singing. In 1865, he returned to Moscow upon an invitation from Anton Rubenstein Pavel B

Vladimir Krakov

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Vladimir Krakov (born 17 June 1970 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a pen-name of Serbian writer and rock musician Vladimir Marković. Music Krakov formed Presing along with Zoran Radovic at the age of 20, and very soon became appreciated for his specific manner of guitar playing and harmony treatment, being influenced to some extent by works and way of thinking of such authors as Glenn Branca, Brian Eno and Robert Fripp. Krakov released three albums with Presing, one with Tornado Ptice and one with Xanax. He also contributed as an author with Menson Benson Sextet, Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša and as an author of applied music for movies and television. Literature In his first book “In a Train to Disneyland” (U vozu za Diznilend, SKC, Belgrade 1994), along with short stories, Krakov also published his essay on theory of poetry “Return of Poetry to Singing”, in which he claimed that poetry which exists only in written form reminds of a “once powerful tribe which now scrapes in reservation”. He advocated the singing as a natural incarnation of poetry, which should reemerge as more appreciated model, while “pencil” poetry should remain what musical notation is to music. Having for a long time fav

Vladimir Martynov

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Vladimir Ivanovich Martynov (Russian: Владимир Иванович Мартынов) (Moscow, 20 February 1946) is a Russian composer, known for his compositions in the concerto, orchestral music, chamber music, and choral music genres. Life Vladimir Martynov studied piano as a child. Gaining an interest in composition, he enrolled in the Moscow Conservatory where he studied piano under Mikhail Mezhlumov and composition under Nikolai Sidelnikov, graduating in 1971. In his early works, such as the String Quartet (1966), the Concerto for Oboe and Flute (1968), Hexagramme for Piano (1971), and Violin Sonata (1973), Vladimir Martynov used serial music (or twelve-tone) technique. In 1973 he got a job at the studio for electronic music of the Alexander Scriabin Museum. For Soviet composers of this era, this studio had much the same meaning as the RAI Electronic Music Studio in Milan, the West German Radio studio, and the ORTF Studio in Paris, providing a meeting ground for the avant-garde musicians. Sofia Gubaidulina, Sergei Nemtin, Alfred Schnittke, and Edison Denisov were among the composers regularly working and meeting there. Martynov helped to form a rock group called Boomerang at the Scriabin Studio.

Vladimir Matetsky

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Vladimir Leonardovich Matetsky (; born 14 May 1952 in Moscow ) is a Russian and Soviet composer, producer, and radio presenter. Personal Life and Career Matetsky is a member of the Russian Authors’ Society. He is married and has one daughter, Maria (born 1987) and son, Leonid (born 2001). Matetsky started to take music classes under the direction of Sofija Moisseevna Karpilovskaya, a student of Elena Fabianovna Gnesina. Vladimir learned to play guitar just as piano. He was particularly influenced by The Beatles. At the end of the 1960s, Matetsky started to play in various rock bands, piano, guitar, bass-guitar. Around the same time he first started writing songs–unusually, in English rather than Russian. His major success is considered to be his song Lavanda, which was written for Sofia Rotaru. It was awarded a golden disc by Melodiya. Currently he lives and works in Moscow. Popular Songs * “Lavanda” (“Лаванда”) by Sofia Rotaru and Jaak Joala * “Hutoryanka” (“Хуторянка”) by Sofia Rotaru * “Luna, luna” (“Луна, луна”) by Sofia Rotaru * “Bilo, No proshlo’” (“Было, но прошло”) by Sofia Rotaru * “Tolko etogo malo’” (“Только этого мало”) by Sofia Rotaru * “Lunnaya raduga’” (“Лунная радуг

Vladimir Migulya

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Vladimir Georgievich Migulya (; August 18, 1945 – February 16, 1996) was a Soviet and Russian musician, singer and composer. He authored many popular songs in the 1970s and the 1990s. He collaborated with the group Zemlyane. In 1988 he was named Migulya wrote the music of the first Hymn of Cosmonautics of Russia Grass by the Home. He was a 14-times laureate of the festival Pesnya Goda. Biography Vladimir Migulya was born on August 18, 1945, in Stalingrad (today’s Volgograd). His father Georgy Fyodorovich Migulya was a military pilot, while his mother Lyudmila Aleksandrovna was a medical statistician and lieutenant of medical service during the World War II. He graduated from a music school in Volgograd. From 1965 to 1968, Migulya studied at the Volgograd School of Arts at the Department of Music Theory. In 1963 he entered the Volgograd State Medical University. In 1968 he graduated from both educational institutions and entered the Leningrad State Conservatory (composition class of Sergei Slonimsky). After graduating from the conservatoire, in 1974 he moved to Moscow. Migulya collaborated with Simon Osiashvili and Larisa Rubalskaya. Vladimir Migulya’s songs are included in the repe

Vladimir Nazarov (composer)

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Vladimir Vasilievich Nazarov (; born February 24, 1952) is a Russian composer, singer, actor, film director, artistic director of the Music Theatre of National Arts, Professor Gnessin State Musical College and R. Glier Kyiv Institute of Music. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1987). People’s Artist of Russia (2004). Member of the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation and Union of Cinematographers the Russian Federation. Biography Vladimir Nazarov was born February 24, 1952, in the town of Novomoskovsk Dnipropetrovsk region in the family chauffeur. His mother worked in a hospital. The future composer was the middle of three brothers. He graduated with honors from high school and music class school bayan (pedagogue Pyotr Martynovich Kostev) Then he entered the Dnipropetrovsk cultural-educational school specialty Manager of the orchestra of folk instruments. He graduated from the Moscow State Art and Cultural University After serving in the Army, he moved to Moscow. Career Founder and director of the ensemble of Russian folk wind instruments Zhaleika (1975–1982), Ensemble of Folk Music (1982–2002) and the State Music Theater of National Art (2002). Since 1984, Vladimir Nazaro

Vladimir Rebikov

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Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov (, ); born May 31 OS May 19 1866 - Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia — died October 1, 1920 - Yalta, Crimea) was a late romantic 20th-century Russian composer and pianist. Biography Born into a family of distant Tatar ancestry, Rebikov began studying the piano with his mother. His sisters also were pianists. He graduated from the Moscow University faculty of philology. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Nikolai Klenovsky, a pupil of Tchaikovsky, and then for three years in Berlin and Vienna with K. Mayrberger (music theory), O. Jasch (instrumentation), and T. Müller (piano). Rebikov taught and also held successful concerts in various parts of the Russian Empire: Moscow, Odessa, Kishinev, Yalta, as well as in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, Florence and Paris, where he met Claude Debussy, Oskar Nedbal, Zdeněk Nejedlý, and others. Rebikov settled in Yalta in 1909. Works and style Early works suggest the influence of Peter Tchaikovsky and Grieg. and Divine Art Recordings, and are widely accessible on Spotify, bringing his music to new audiences. In academic circles, Dr. Ivan Hurd’s 2023 presentation at the MTNA National Conference examined Rebikov’s evol

Vladimir Shainsky

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Vladimir Yakovlevich Shainsky (, ; 12 December 1925 – 25 December 2017) was a Soviet and Russian composer. He was a recipient of the People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1986). Biography Shainsky was born in Kiev to a Jewish family. He first studied violin at the music school in Kiev. His studies there were interrupted in 1941 by World War II, when his family was evacuated to Tashkent in the Uzbek SSR. He continued his musical education at the , until he was enlisted in the Red Army. After the war he entered Moscow Conservatory, where he graduated as a violinist. In the 1950s, Shainsky played in Leonid Utyosov’s orchestra, taught students, and worked as a music manager at various dance orchestras. He later studied composition at the Baku Conservatory. His first compositional works were a string quartet, created in 1963 during his studies at the Baku Conservatory, and a symphony, written in 1965. During his career as a composer, Shainsky wrote a large number of works for children. He created music and songs for cartoons such as Cheburashka, Katerok, Mamontenok and Kroshka Enot; also for films including Breakfast on the Grass, Aniskin and Fantomas, Aniskin Again, School Waltz, Finist, the B

Vladimir Shcherbachov

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Shcherbachov (Shcherbachyov, Shcherbachev) (; 25 January 1889, in Warsaw – 5 March 1952, in Leningrad) was a Soviet composer. He studied with Maximilian Steinberg, Anatoly Lyadov, and Jāzeps Vītols (Joseph Wihtol) at the St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1908 to 1914. While there he also worked as a pianist for Sergey Diaghilev and taught theory. He served in World War I and then worked in Soviet government music positions. In 1918-1923 he worked as a lecturer and ran the musical department of the Narkompros. He later became a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory (1923-1931 and 1944-1948) and the Tbilisi Conservatory. He counted Boris Arapov, Vasily Velikanov, Evgeny Mravinsky, Valery Zhelobinsky, Gavriil Popov, Valerian Bogdanov-Berezovsky, Pyotr Ryazanov, and Mikhail Chulaki among his pupils, as well as various others. Works *Anna Kolossova, opera (1939, unfinished); *Tabachny Kapitan, operetta (1943); * Five symphonies: **No. 1 (1914); **No. 2 (“Blokovskaya” or “Blok”, with soloists and chorus, 1925); **No. 3 (Symphony-Suite, 1931); **No. 4 (“Izhorskaya”, with soloists and chorus, 1935); **No. 5 (“Russkaya”, 1948, 2nd version in 1950); *Nonet for 7 instr

Vladimir Sokalsky

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Vladimir Ivanovich Sokalsky (; , 1863 - 1919) was a composer, musical critic, and lawyer. Biography Vladimir Ivanovich Sokalsky was born in the family of Ivan Petrovich Sokalsky, a Russian writer. He was born on 24 April 1863 at Heidelberg, in the Grand Duchy of Baden. He graduated from Kharkiv musical school, a branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Community, where studied music from Peter Petrovich Sokalsky, and compositions from Iwan Knorr. He also graduated from Kharkiv University (the faculty of law). He was a conductor of an orchestra in opera-enterprise of Vasily Nikolaevich Andreev-Burlak. Since 1882 contributed as a musical reviewer of the “South country” newspaper, under a pseudonym Don-Diez. At meetings of the Kharkov branch of Russian musical society its products were executed, and the opera “Repka” was performed in Poltave, Smolensk, Tiflis and Kharkov. In 1902 he was a prosecutor at the Ust-Medveditsa district court. In the autumn of 1911, he became the Chairman of the Vologda district Court. In 1918 in Vologda, he performed several lectures and concerts devoted to creativity of Beethoven and Grieg with his daughter Lydia, and son-in-law Ilya Ginetsinsky. In 1919, he

Vladimir Sverdlov-Ashkenazy

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Vladimir Leonidovich Sverdlov-Ashkenazy (; born on July 21, 1976, Moscow) is a Russian pianist and composer. Family Vladimir Sverdlov comes from a family of musicians. His grandfather David Ashkenazy was a pianist, accompanist and composer, People’s Artist of the USSR. His mother, Elena Ashkenazy, is a pianist and teaches piano at Musashino Academia Musicae in Tokyo. His uncle, Vladimir Ashkenazy, is a famous pianist and conductor. Education Vladimir Sverdlov studied at the Central Music School at the Moscow Conservatory under Professor Vladimir Krainev. At the age of 14, in 1990, became the winner of the Moscow City Piano Competition. He continued his education at the Hannover Higher School of Music under Professor Arie Vardi. Career At the age of 16, in 1992, Vladimir embarked on his first tour through Germany, accompanied by the Radio Frankfurt Orchestra conducted by Dmitry Kitayenko. In 1993 Vladimir Sverdlov won the Grand Prix at the Citta di Senigallia International Competition in Italy. His performance has garnered him a great acclaim among the public and led to many professional engagements. After this the rapid rise of the pianist began. In 2000 Vladimir Sverdlov made his

Vladimir Tarnopolsky

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Vladimir Grigoryevich Tarnopolsky (, born April 30, 1955, in Dnipro, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian-Ukrainian composer. Biography The composer has written music since childhood, having mastered the bases of composition independently. After his studies at the Dnepropetrovsk Glinka Music College (1970–1973) majoring in piano (studying with Mikaela Alexandrova) and music theory, he studied composition at the Moscow State Conservatory with Nikolai Sidelnikov and the theoretical disciplines of harmony, form and counterpoint with Yuri Kholopov (1973–1980). A special role in Tarnopolsky’s compositional development has been played by Edison Denisov, who gave him the first professional advice and recommendations, first by correspondence, and then at the Conservatory he became his teacher of orchestration, at the same time, having preserved a certain amount of influence in the sphere of musical composition, as well. During his student years, Tarnopolsky entered the so-called “Denisov circle” of composers, who assumed an alternative position in regard to the official standards of the Soviet ideology and in the late 1980s formed the active core of the artistic group of the Association of Contempo

Vladimir Ussachevsky

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Vladimir Alexeevich Ussachevsky (November 3, 1911 in Hailar, China – January 2, 1990 in New York City) was a Russian-American composer, particularly known for his work in electronic music. Biography Vladimir Ussachevsky was born in the Hailar District of China, in modern-day Inner Mongolia to an Imperial Russian Army officer assigned to protect Trans-Siberian Railway interests. He emigrated to the United States in 1930 and studied music at Pomona College in Claremont, California (B.A., 1935), as well as at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York (M.M., 1936, Ph.D., 1939). Ussachevsky’s early, neo-Romantic works were composed for traditional instruments, but in 1951 he began composing electronic music. He served as president of the American Composers Alliance from 1968 to 1970 and was an advisory member of the Composers Recordings, Inc. record label, which released recordings of a number of his compositions. Recordings of his music have also been released on the Capstone, d’Note, and New World labels. Teaching career In 1947, following a stint with the U.S. Army Intelligence division in World War II, Ussachevsky joined the faculty of Columbia University, teaching there un

Vladimir Vavilov (composer)

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Vladimir Fyodorovich Vavilov (; 5 May 1925 – 11 March 1973) References External links *Complete bio in Russian *“Vladimir F. Vavilov” in Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedic Dictionary * *“Ave Maria” Giulio Caccini. By Vavilov. (Musical hoaxes)

Vladimir Vlasov

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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Vlasov (; 7 January 1903, Moscow – 7 September 1986, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian composer and conductor. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory from 1924 to 1931 under such teachers as Georgy Catoire, Abram Yampolsky, and Nikolai Zhilyayev. In 1936 he founded the Music and Drama Theatre in Frunze, working as the company’s artistic director until 1942. He worked as the artistic director of the Moscow PO from 1942 to 1949. He was made a People’s Artist of the RSFSR and of the Kirghiz SSR. As a composer, Vlasov is known for his numerous operas, six of which were written in a Soviet government assigned collaboration with Vladimir Fere and Abdylas Maldybaev. The collective is usually hyphenated as Vlasov-Fere-Maldybaev, which also composed the Kirghiz national anthem. Discography His work has been recorded and issued on media including: * Ai-Churek (1938) LP Melodiya D 07269-74: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Khirgiz State Theatre Opera & Ballet, DZhumakhmatov (conductor) * Five Pieces for violin and piano 1. Romance; 2. Waltz; 3. Folk Dance; 4. Nocturne; 5. Scherzo CD Russia Revelation RV 10071: Leonid Kogan (violin), Alexander Marakov (piano) (Rec: 1

Vladislav Kazenin

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Vladislav Igorevich Kazenin (; May 21, 1937, Kirov – February 17, 2014, Moscow) was Soviet and Russian composer and musician. Chairman of the Union of Russian Composers (since 1990), Deputy Minister of Culture of the USSR (1987–1990), member of the Commission under the President of the Russian Federation on State Prizes of the Russian Federation in Literature and Art, member of the Board of the Ministry of Culture of Russia and the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Culture and Art (1996–2001). People’s Artist of the Russian Federation (1996), laureate of the State Prize of Russia (2003), Honorary Citizen of the city of Kirov (2009). Biography He was born on May 21, 1937 in Kirov in the family of musician Igor Vikentyevich Kazenin. His father worked as the director of the Kirov Children’s Music School and the Kirov College of Music. He gave his son his first piano lessons. His mother, Valentina Nikolaevna, worked as a track service engineer on the railroad. During the Great Patriotic War, creative evenings were often held in the Kazenin house with the participation of cultural and art figures evacuated to Kirov. Among them were Emil Gilels, Lev Oborin, David

Vladislav Shoot

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Vladislav Shoot (, Vladislav Alekseyevich Shut’ (also spelled Chout, Schut, Sciut, Shut or Szut); 3 March 1941 – 9 March 2022) was a Russian-British composer of contemporary classical music. Born in Voznesensk, Soviet Union, now Ukraine, he moved to the United Kingdom in the early 1990s, settling on the artists’ estate of Dartington Hall. Biography He was born Vladislav Shut in Voznesensk, Soviet Union, to Valentina (née Nizovaya) and Alexei Shut, an officer in the navy. He was raised in Sevastopol, where he attended School N14. Shoot’s music is published by M.P. Belaieff – Edition Peters (Frankfurt-am-Main)/Schott (Mainz). He married the artist Irina Karpey in 1970. Shoot died on 9 March 2022. Music Shoot’s works met with much admiration in the West from the 1980s onward. He preferred smaller ensembles, up to a chamber orchestra, which he tied into sound compositions or groups of overlapping sound layers. Even his symphonies, excepting the High Cross Symphony (1998), are chamber symphonies. He retained serial processes, used post-Romantic elements, and quoted composers of the past, with Alban Berg as the clearest influence. His music has been performed at numerous venues and festi

Vladislav Soyfer

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Vladislav Soyfer (, 16 July 1961 — 31 July 2021) was a composer, music teacher, arranger, and translator. Biography Born in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR (present-day Ukraine), Soyfer spent his childhood in Tashkent before moving to Moscow. He initially enrolled at the Moscow Land Development Institute but later followed his passion for music by entering the October Revolution Music School. There, he studied under Vasily Gorbatov, a blind musician and music theorist. Concurrently, Soyfer served in a military band. From 1984 to 1989, Soyfer studied composition at the Moscow Conservatory under Edison Denisov, Nikolai Sidelnikov, and others. His most significant musical development, however, came through private lessons with the Romanian-born composer Philip Herschkowitz between 1986 and 1989. A student of Alban Berg and Anton Webern, Herschkowitz had a profound influence on Soyfer, who dedicated his work to continuing the traditions of the Second Viennese School. From 1989 to 1996, Soyfer also attended lectures as a non-degree student in the philosophy and philology faculties at Moscow State University. These included lectures by Mikhail Gasparov, Sergey Averintsev, and Alexander Dobrokhoto

Vlado Milošević

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Vlado Milošević (; 1901–1990) was a Bosnian composer and ethnomusicologist from Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina. His hometown of Banja Luka holds an annual musical festival named after the composer. He attended elementary school and gimnazija in Banja Luka. He studied history and geography in Belgrade, then in Zagreb, and finished his music (pedagogy) studies. He taught in Banja Luka and Niš, and subsequently worked at the Museum of Bosanska Krajina, and conducted the Serbian Singing Society (SPD) “Jedinstvo” (“Unity”) choir. Milošević’s last years were spent in one of the villas in today’s King Petar I Karađorđević Street, Banja Luka, which holds Milošević’s memorial room. References External links * Profile, riznicasrpska.net * The Digitized Legacy of academician Vlado Milošević * Gimnazija, Banja Luka website

Vladyslav Zaremba

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Vladyslav Ivanovych Zaremba (27 June 1833 – 24 October 1902) was a Ukrainian composer and pianist of Polish origin. He was the brother of Nikolai Zaremba and the father of Sigizmund Zaremba. Zaremba was born in Dunaivtsi. His family moved to Kamianets-Podilskyi in 1846, where he studied music with Józef and Antoni Kocipiński. After completing his studies, he lived outside of Kamianets-Podilskyi. Zaremba returned in 1854 and worked as an organist in a church. For unknown reasons, Zaremba was under polish surveillance at this time. In 1856 he moved to Zhytomyr, where he began to teach, perform, and compose music. His son Sigizmund was born there. From 1862 he lived in Kyiv, giving piano and choral singing lessons at various institutions. He was also a music critic and an active member of the Russian Musical Society. Zaremba was a conductor of some amateur choirs. He died in Kyiv, aged 69, and was buried in the Baikove Cemetery. The Zaremba street in Kyiv was named in honor of Vladyslav Zaremba. The Khmelnytskyi Music College is also named after him. The composer wrote plays and arranged Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian folk music for piano. He also composed over thirty songs and romanc

Vlastimil Lejsek

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Vlastimil Lejsek (21 July 1927 – 12 March 2010 in Brno) was a Czech composer and pianist. Biography Lejsek was born on 21 July 1927 in Brno. He was the son of the Moravian choirmaster František Květoslav Lejsek. He studied at the Brno Conservatory and the Academies of Music in both Prague and Brno with František Schafer, Jan Erml and František Maxián. During his studies he received awards at many competitions, such as the International Smetana Competition (Prague) and Franz Liszt Competition (Budapest). With his wife, Věra Lejsková, he established a famous piano duo, collaborating with composers such as Milhaud, Britten, Lutoslawski and Shostakovich, and recording for the first time Dvořák’s 4-hand works and many more. As a solo pianist, he premiered many works of his colleagues, as well as of his own. The main body of his musical output consists music for piano duo (like Brazilian Dances, Dances of Masters, Inventions, Moravian Ballades) and piano solo (Preludes, Sonatella, Pianists and Horses, The Moon Suite). Besides being a composer and a performing and recording pianist, Lejsek also served at the music faculties of the Conservatory and Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brn

Vlastimir Peričić

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Vlastimir Peričić (7 December 1927 in Vršac – 1 March 2000 in Belgrade) was a Serbian composer and one of the most important theoreticians of Serbian music, well-known musicologist and the author of extremely valuable university textbooks, as well as a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences. Biography Vlastimir Peričić was the son of Juraj and Jelica Peričić, maiden name Nikolajević . Attended elementary school in Zemun from 1934 to 1938, grammar school in Zemun from 1938 to 1941 and in Belgrade from 1941 to 1946. Enrolled high school of music at the Belgrade Academy in 1941, the Music Academy in 1945, graduated from the Department of Composition at the Music Academy of Belgrade (the class of professor Stanojlo Rajičić) in 1951. In the period from 1945 to 1947 worked as an intern in the Natural History Museum in Belgrade, from 1948 to 1951 as a part-time lecturer of solfeggio and basic music theory at the Music School Josif Marinković in Belgrade, from 1951 to 1955 as a professor of theoretical subjects in the Secondary School of Music at the Academy of Music (now the School of Music Slavenski ). Vlastimir Peričić spent the school year 1955—1956 training a