Yuri Abramowitsch Levitin

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Yuri Abramovich Levitin ( Russian Юрий Абрамович Левитин , scientific. Transliteration Yuri Abramovich Levitin , December 15 * . Jul / 28. December  1912 greg. In Poltava , Russian Empire , now Ukraine ; †  26. July 1993 in Moscow ) was a Russian composer .

Life

He studied piano with Samari Ilyich Sawschinski at the Leningrad Conservatory until 1937 and composition with Dmitri Shostakovich until 1942. During his studies he worked as a pianist at the State Estradentheater and the Leningrad Philharmonic from 1931 to 1941 . In the war years 1941/42 he was evacuated and worked as musical director at the Estradentheater Tashkent . From 1942 he lived and worked in Moscow.

He left an extensive body of work in almost all genres - operas, oratorios, cantatas, symphonies, concerts, vocal and chamber music, especially string quartets. He dealt with the war in several larger works. In addition, he also composed a lot for the entertainment genre, such as songs that the Estrada singer Mark Bernes made popular. He also wrote the music for around 70 films. He wrote some works that conformed to the system, but some of his compositions were banned from performance in the course of the state campaign against formalism in 1948. When Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues came under suspicion of formalism in 1951, he was one of the few defenders of his teacher. He was considered a representative of the Leningrad School. Stylistically, his musical language remained moderately modern. Lewitin had been friends with Mieczysław Weinberg since the 1940s, and he dedicated two string quartets to him.

Awards

  • 1952: Stalin Prize
  • 1965: Honored Artist of the RSFSR
  • 1980: People's Artist of the RSFSR

Works (selection)

Operas

Operettas

  • Коронный удар (1972)

Oratorios

  • Священная война - The Holy War (1942)
  • Реквием памяти павших героев - Requiem in memory of the fallen heroes according to Vasily Lebedev-Kumach (1946)
  • Отчизна - Fatherland according to Vasily Lebedew-Kumach (1947)
  • Хиросима не должна повториться - Hiroshima must not repeat itself! (1967)
  • Памяти поэта after Nikolai Sabolozki (1988)
  • Огни над Волгой - Fire over the Volga (1951), awarded the Stalin Prize in 1952

Cantatas

  • Гори - Mountains on Akaki Tsereteli u. a. (1949)
  • Ленин жив - Lenin lives after Vladimir Mayakovsky a . a. (1960)
  • Путь борьбы и побед (1952, rev. 1975)
  • Веселые нищие - The Cheerful Beggars after Robert Burns (1963)
  • Слуга - царице after Alexander Blok (1972)
  • Разноцветные страницы according to Samuil Marschak (1973)
  • Старость after Nikolai Sabolozki (1976)

Symphonic works

  • 1st symphony Юность (1948, rev. 1955)
  • Sinfonietta No. 1 (1951)
  • 2nd symphony (1962)
  • В дни войны (1974)
  • Sinfonietta No. 2 (1974)
  • Sinfonietta No. 3 (1976)

Concerts

  • Concerto No. 1 for piano (1944)
  • Concerto for clarinet and bassoon (1949)
  • Concerto No. 2 for piano (1952)
  • Concerto for horn (1959)
  • Concerto for oboe (1959)
  • Concertino for cello (1960)

Chamber music

  • String quartets I (1940), II (1943), III (1944), IV (1946), V (1948), VI (1951), VII (1952), VIII (1958), IX (1968), X (1971) , XI (1974), XII (1976)
  • Sonata for double bass solo (1965)
  • Small suite for vibra, marimba and piano (1968)

Songs

  • Рабочий человек
  • В дальнем рейсе
  • Далеко от дома
  • Полевая почта

Filmography (selection)

  • Тихий Дон - The silent Don (1958)
  • Поднятая целина (1960)
  • Коллеги (1962)
  • Операция "Трест" (1967)
  • Угрюм-река (1968)
  • Освобождение - Liberation (1969)

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Most sources give the date of death July 26, 1993, which is also supported by the photo of the tombstone on bozaboza.narod.ru. Individual sources, however, mention August 2, 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alla Vladimirovna Grigor′yeva:  Levitin, Yury Abramovich. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  2. ^ Igor Karpinsky:  Levitin, Jurij Abramovič. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 11 (Lesage - Menuhin). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1121-7  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  3. ↑ a b c d e CV and list of works on kino-teatr.ru
  4. ↑ Short biography on rujen.ru
  5. ↑ a b c Dorothea Redepenning: The history of Russian and Soviet music . The 20th century. tape 2.1 . Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 2008, ISBN 978-3-89007-709-3 , p. 462 f., 505, 518 f .
  6. ↑ Brief vita on bard.ru
  7. ^ Levon Hakobian: Music of the Soviet Era: 1917-1991 . 2nd Edition. Routledge, London, New York 2017, ISBN 978-1-4724-7108-6 , pp. 194 .
  8. ^ Krzysztof Meyer : Schostakowitsch. His life, his work, his time . Gustav Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, ISBN 3-7857-0772-X , p. 355 .
  9. ↑ Boris Yoffe : In the flow of the symphonic . Wolke, Hofheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-95593-059-2 , pp. 480-481 .
  10. ↑ Weinberg's string quartets No. 7 (1957) and No. 14 (1978) are dedicated to Juri Lewitin, cf. David Fanning: Mieczysław Weinberg. In search of freedom . Wolke, Hofheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-936000-90-0 , p. 229, 231 .
personal data
SURNAME Levitin, Yuri Abramowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Левитин, Юрий Абрамович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Poltava
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1993
Place of death Moscow