Fyodor Serafimowitsch Druzhinin
Fyodor Serafimowitsch Druzhinin ( Russian Фёдор Серафимович Дружинин ; born April 6, 1932 in Moscow ; † July 1, 2007 ) was a Russian violist and composer and teacher for viola.
Life
Fyodor Druzhinin was born in Moscow in 1932 . He began in 1944 at the music school of the Moscow Conservatory with the viola studies with Nikolai Sokolow and studied from 1950 at the Conservatory with Vadim Borisovsky. In 1964 Druschinin took his place in the Beethoven string quartet. He taught as a teacher at the Moscow Conservatory, where he was appointed head of the viola section in 1980. His most famous student is Yuri Bashmet .
Druschinin has dedicated important works for viola a. a. the composers Mieczysław Weinberg , Alfred Schnittke , Grigori Frid and especially the Sonata for Viola Op. 147 (1975) by Dmitri Shostakovich , which he also premiered. Druzhinin won first prize at the Moscow Music Competition in 1957. In 1988 he was appointed People's Artist of the RSFSR . In addition to his activities as a teacher and violinist, he also composed several works for viola.
Web links
- Entry in the encyclopedia of music (Russian)
- Second movement of Fyodor Druzhinin's sonata for viola solo interpreted by Julia Rebekka Adler
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| SURNAME | Druzhinin, Fyodor Serafimowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Дружинин, Фёдор Серафимович (Cyrillic); Druzhinin, Fyodor Serafimovich (English transcription) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 2007 |