Isaak Ossipowitsch Dunajewski

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Isaak Ossipowitsch Dunajewski

Isaak Ossipowitsch Dunajewski ( Russian Исаак Осипович Дунаевский ; * January 18 July / January 30,  1900 greg. In Lochwyzja ; †  July 25, 1955 in Moscow ) was a Soviet composer .

Life

He studied violin with Joseph Achron and composition with Semjon Bogatyrjow at the Kharkov Conservatory until 1919 . From 1924 he was musical director at the Satire Theater in Moscow, from 1929 at the Music Hall in Leningrad, where he also worked with the Leonid Ulyossov jazz orchestra and directed the song and dance ensemble of the Pioneer Palace. From 1936 to 1941 he lived on Gorokhovaya Street in Leningrad . In 1943 he moved back to Moscow.

Dunajewski achieved great popularity through his film scores, operettas and Estrada entertainment hits in the 1930s and 1940s. He also wrote hits with western influences ( foxtrot and jazz ) , which made him popular among young people. When the war began, his star began to decline - heroic battle songs were required instead of the harmless, happy songs. That was not so much Dunayevsky's case. After 1945, the self-confessed communist and Stalin Prize winner in 1941 suffered from the anti-Semitism of the late Stalin era . The last years of his life were determined by unsuccessful attempts to build on his former successes. In 1955 he died of a heart attack. There are rumors of suicide that have not been substantiated.

The asteroid (4306) Dunaevskij is named after him.

Works

  • Entrée marsch from the film “Zirkus” (mostly performed in the version for wind orchestra by Walter Tuschla ) - 1936 / SBZ February 15, 1946
  • Moonlight waltz from the film "Circus" - 1936 / SBZ February 15, 1946
  • There was once a captain from the film “The Children of Captain Grant” - 1936 / SBZ August 31, 1945
  • numerous operettas, u. a. "Free Wind", "The Golden Valley", "Straw Hat", "White Acacia"
  • Tango Herz mein from the film "Funny journeymen" - 1934 / SBZ December 28, 1945

Filmography (selection)

Songs

  • My Moscow (Моя Москва), since 1995 hymn of Moscow
  • Fatherland, no enemy should endanger you (Широка страна моя родная)
  • March of the Enthusiasts (Марш энтузиастов) from the movie "The Bright Way"
  • Sports march (Спортивный марш)
  • March of the Happy Children (Марш весёлых ребят) from the film "Happy Children"
  • Lullaby (Колыбельная) from the film "Circus"
  • School Walzer (Школьный вальс)
  • Flies, pigeons (Летите, голуби) from the film "We are for peace"
  • Song about Kachowka (Песня о Каховке)
  • Heart, you don't want peace (Сердце, тебе не хочется покоя)
  • Spring is coming (Весна идет)

Awards

literature

  • Matthias Stadelmann: Isaak Dunaevskij, singer of the people: a career under Stalin . Boehlau Verlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3-412-06703-8 , pp. 505 .
  • Nils Grosch and Elmar Juchem: The reception of the Broadway musical in Germany . Waxmann Verlag GmbH, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-8309-2614-6 , p. 148-149 .

Web links

Commons : Isaak Dunajewski  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Marina Lobanova:  Dunaevskij, Isaac Osipovic. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 5 (Covell - Dzurov). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2001, ISBN 3-7618-1115-2  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  2. Information on vmiremusiki.ru
  3. ^ Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Volume 1 in the Google Book Search
  4. ^ Works by Isaak Dunajewski. Retrieved May 1, 2018 (Russian).