Grigori Samuilowitsch Frid
Grigori Frid Samuilowitsch ( Russian Григорий Самуилович Фрид ., Scientific transliteration Grigory Frid Samuilovič ; born September 9, jul. / 22. September 1915 greg. In Petrograd ; † 22 September 2012 in Moscow ) was a Russian composer , painter and writer .
Life
Grigori Frid was born in 1915 as the son of a literary journalist and a pianist. Many of Frid's family members perished from persecution under Stalin's rule. In 1927 the father was exiled to Siberia. In Irkutsk , Frid began studying music, which he finished in 1935 at the Moscow Conservatory in the composition class of Heinrich Litinski and Vissarion Schebalin .
Frid taught music theory at the Conservatory from 1936 to 1939. During the Great Patriotic War , he worked as a medic and in musical ensembles at the front. From 1947 to 1961 he taught composition at the Music School of the Moscow Conservatory and worked as a composer for the radio.
In 1965 the Moscow Youth Music Club was founded, which Frid organized and directed. As part of this, seminars and concerts were also offered, which often unofficially presented new works by Sofia Gubaidulina , Edison Denissow and Alfred Schnittke .
Grigori Frid was named an Honored Artist in 1986 , and in 1996 he was a Moscow Prize Winner.
Works (selection)
Film music
- Lenin in Paris , Mosfilm 1981, directed by Sergei Jutkewitsch
Operas
- The diary of Anne Frank , monooper in two acts for soprano and orchestra (1969), text: G. Frid, German translation: Ulrike Patow; also as a chamber opera in 2 reduced versions
- Letters of Van Gogh , mono-opera in two parts for baritone and orchestra (1975)
Concerts
- Concerto for viola and chamber orchestra (1965)
- Concerto for viola, piano and strings (1981)
orchestra
- Symphony No. 3 (1964)
- Overture for orchestra (1967)
Chamber music
- String Quartet No. 3 (1949)
- String Quartet No. 4 (1957)
- Six pieces for string quartet (1972)
- Sonata for Viola and Piano No. 1 (1975)
- String Quartet No. 5 (1977)
- Piano Quintet (1981)
- Romance from the film Lenin in Paris for solo violoncello, violoncello ensemble and piano (1981)
- Phaedra for solo viola, two violins, cello and piano (1985)
Vowel cycles
- Poetry for two voices, clarinet, violoncello and percussion based on words by Lorca 1971
- Winter , 5 songs for high voice and piano based on words by Luís de Camões 1985
piano
- Children's Pieces, Op. 39 (1960)
- Inventionen (1964) (also arr. For orchestra)
- Children's Pieces op. 41 (1965)
- Hungarian album (1966)
- Sonata for 2 pianos (1985)
literature
- Anatolij Moiseevič Cuker, Aleksandr Jakovlic Selickij: Grigorij Frid . Sovetskij Kompozitor, Moscow 1990, ISBN 978-5-85285-086-7 .
- Ulrike Patow: Frid, Grigorij Samuilovič. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 7 (Franco - Gretry). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7618-1117-9 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
- Nelli Grigor′yevna Shakhnazarova: Frid, Grigory Samuilovich. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
Web links
- Literature by and about Grigori Frid in the catalog of the German National Library
- Grigori Frid in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- CV at Sikorski
- Biography on kino-teatr.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography , accessed September 25, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d Ulrike Patow: Frid, Grigorij Samuilovič. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 7 (Franco - Gretry). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7618-1117-9 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frid, Grigory Samuilovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Фрид, Григорий Самуилович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian composer, painter and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Petrograd |
| DATE OF DEATH | 22nd September 2012 |
| Place of death | Moscow |