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Anatoly Bogatyrev

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Anatoly Vasilyevich Bogatyrev (, ; 13 August 1913 – 19 September 2003) was a Soviet and Belarusian composer and music teacher, seen as one of the leaders of the national school of Belarusian music. Biography Bogatyrev was born in Vitebsk Russian Empire, the son of a language teacher. He studied at the Vitebsk Music School, the Minsk School of Music, and the Conservatory of Belarus where he was taught composition by Vasily Zolotarev, a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov. He came to prominence while still in his twenties, being appointed chairman of the board of the Belarusian Union of Composers in 1938, and receiving the Stalin Prize in 1941. In 1948 he began teaching composition at the National Conservatory, Minsk, where he later became a deputy director. He joined the CPSU in 1954, and was made a People’s Artist of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1968. Bogatyrev died on 19 September 2003 in Minsk. Music Bogatyrev’s music is tonal with marked nationalist tendencies. His study of Belarusian folklore strongly influenced his music, not just in his folksong arrangements, but also in his choice sometimes to adopt modes and the rhythms of Belarusian folk music. He has been described

Dmitry Smolsky

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Dmitry Smolski (July 25, 1937 – September 29, 2017) was a Belarusian composer, Honored Artist of Belorussian SSR (1975), laureate of the State Prize of BSSR (1980), National Artist of the Republic of Belarus (1987), laureate of the Order of Francysk Skaryna (2013), and professor. Dmitry Smolsky was the father of Victor Smolski, best known as the guitarist of the German band Rage. Early life Dmitry Smolski was born on July 25, 1937, in Minsk in the family of a famous Belarusian musicologist Bronislaw Smolski. A musical environment surrounded him from early childhood contributed to an early demonstration of his musical talent (the first musical publication of the young composer refers to the age of 12). At the age of seven, Dmitry began regular music lessons (violin), first in the Moscow Central Music School and then at the Music School of Belarusian State Conservatory, where he also started to learn composition under the leadership of a famous Belarusian composer Evgeniy Tikotski. In 1955, Smolski entered the Moscow Conservatory to the class of prof. Yuri Shaporin, but a year later he had to return to Minsk for health reasons. D. Smolski graduated from the Belarusian State Conservat

Eta Tyrmand

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Eta Moiseyevna Tyrmand (; ; February 23, 1917 – April 29, 2008 ) was a Belarusian composer. Life and career Eta Tyrmand was born in Warsaw. She graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory in choral performance in 1938, and from the Belarusian State Conservatory in classical piano and composition in 1952. She located in Minsk in 1939, and during World War II lived in Frunze. She taught for nearly 40 years at the Belarusian State Conservatory where she trained several generations of highly accomplished musicians. References

Halina Harelava

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Halina Kanstancinaŭna Harełava, also known as Galina Gorelova (; ; born 5 March 1951), is a Belarusian contemporary composer. Biography Harełava was born in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR (now Belarus), and studied music at the National Conservatory in Minsk with Dźmitry Smolski, graduating in 1977. After completing her studies, she took at position teaching theory and composition at the Conservatory. She received the State Prize of Belarus in 1992 for Anno mundis ardentis. Works Harelava’s works incorporate elements of Belarusian folk themes, and she is noted for children’s compositions. Selected works include: *Liryčnaja kantata Lyrical Cantata (traditional Belarusian texts) for female chorus and orchestra, 1979 *Anno mundis ardentis (P. Antokol’sky, G. Appolinaire, L. Aragon, V. Bryusov, S. Kirsanov, A. Rimbault, A. Tarkovsky) for mezzo-soprano, baritone and orchestra, 1989 *Tysiača hadoŭ nadzieji A Thousand Years of Hope (poets of the 10th–20th centuries) for female voice and orchestra, 1990 *Violin Concerto, 1979 *Oboe Concerto, 1984 *Bandaroŭna, symphonic poem, 1986 *Balalaika Concerto, 1991 *Trumpet Concerto, 1992 *Guitar Concerto, 1994 *Concerto for viola, string orchestra and bel

Tatsiana Zelianko

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Tatsiana Zelianko (born 1980) is a composer and pianist in Luxembourg. Originally from Belarus, she was trained at the Academy of Music in Minsk, where she obtained a Master’s in instrumental performance (piano) and graduated as a piano teacher and chamber artist. She then worked at the Philharmonic of Brest, Belarus, as a concert pianist. After moving to Luxembourg in 2008, she turned to contemporary composition and began studying writing and musical analysis at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg, of which she won two first prizes. In 2015, she won first prize in the Senior section at the International Composition Competition “Artistes en Herbes” in Luxembourg. A year later, Tatsiana Zelianko obtained governmental artist status in Luxembourg. She has to her credit several dozen diverse and varied musical creations. The composer has already carried out a large number of musical commissions in Luxembourg in collaboration with Noise Watchers Unlimited, the CAPe, National Literature Center of Mersch, :fr:Ensemble Lucilin, :fr:Ars Musica, the CID Fraen an Gender, the Philharmonie Luxembourg and the Ministry of Culture of Luxembourg. Her partitions have been created in other co

Uladzimir Karyzna

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Uladzimir Ivanavich Karyzna (, ; 25 May 1938 – 5 March 2026) was a Belarusian poet. He co-wrote the lyrics of the current national anthem of Belarus, My Belarusy. Background Karyzna was born in Zakruzhka, Minsk District on 25 May 1938. He finished the Belarusian State University in the name of Vladimir Lenin (1961), and worked as a teacher of the Belarusian and Russian languages and literature in a village school in Opsa, Braslaw District of the Vitsebsk Region. During this time, Karyzna headed literary association in the regional newspaper Braslaw star. In 1967, he became an employee of Republican radio, where he worked for 13 years as an editor, senior editor, and in the head division of Belarusian music. He was an editor of the division of knowledge and arts in the magazine Polimya (1980–1981), senior editor, head of the editing of the edition Youth (1981–2001), and deputy of the main editor in the edition Well (2002). Karyzna died in Minsk on 5 March 2026, at the age of 87. Works and activity Karyzna was the author of more than 200 songs, written in sponsorship with well-known Belarusian composers. He is the author of the hymn of Nesvizh and co-wrote the lyrics of the Belarusia

Vyacheslav Kuznetsov (composer)

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Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Kuznetsov (; ; born 15 June 1955 in Vienna) is a Belarusian classical music composer. Selected works * Diary of a Madman (Записки сумасшедшего), Opera in 1 act after Nikolai Gogol * Capriccio (Капрыччио) for viola solo (1988) * Heterophony (Гетэрафонія) for oboe, violin and viola (1993) References External links * Vyacheslav Kuznetsov at the Living Composers Project * Композитор Вячеслав Кузнецов: «Партитуры не горят» (in Russian) * Оперный театр Беларуси - Записки сумасшедшего - YouTube * Вячеслав Владимирович Кузнецов (in Russian) * Композитор Вячеслав Кузнецов о том, как поставить балет и спеть Достоевского (in Russian) *Кузнецов Вячеслав Владимирович (in Russian) *ВЫСТАВКА “ПРОФЕССИЯ – КОМПОЗИТОР” К ЮБИЛЕЮ В.В. КУЗНЕЦОВА (in Russian) *Вячеслав КУЗНЕЦОВ: Musica Marginale (in Russian)