Gennady Ivanovich Banshchikov

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Gennadi Ivanovich Banschtschikow ( Russian Геннадий Иванович Банщиков , born November 9, 1943 in Kazan ) is a Russian composer .

life and work

Gennady Banshchikov's family moved from Kazan to Ukraine after the Second World War . In 1953 he was admitted to the music school of the Leningrad Conservatory , where he first studied cello, then clarinet, and also piano, but then turned to composition. From 1961 to 1964 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Sergei Balasanjan and in 1965/66 at the Leningrad Conservatory with Boris Arapov , which was followed by postgraduate studies until 1969. In 1967 he became a member of the Soviet Composers Union . Since 1974 he has been teaching at the Petersburg Conservatory, from 1998 as a professor of instrumentation and composition.

The compositional work of Gennadi Banschtschikow so far includes four symphonies, concertos (so far only five for cello), operas (including the Richard Strauss dedicated chamber opera The Great squabble between Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich after the short story by Gogol ) and chamber music, including several sonatas for the bayan .

literature

  • Iosif Genrikhovich Rayskin:  Banshchikov, Gennady Ivanovich. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  • CD booklet Russian Disc, RD CD 11 052, 1995, Banschtschikow: Concert (No. 4) f. Cello and 11 instruments “Duodetsimet” (among others), text by Maya Pritsker

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of the stage works by Gennadij Banscikov based on the MGG in Operone
  2. Information on the opera in Sikorski