Yuri Alexandrovich Falik

Yuri Alexandrowitsch Falik ( Russian Юрий Александрович Фалик ; born July 30, 1936 in Odessa , Ukraine , † January 23, 2009 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian composer and conductor .

Falik studied at the Leningrad Conservatory from 1955 to 1964 and in 1962 received first prize at the International Cello Competition at the VIII World Festival in Helsinki . In addition, compositions have already been written that show the influence of his teacher Arapov in addition to his musical role models Stravinsky , Prokofiev and Shostakovich . The works created from 1968 onwards are described as having matured and detached from the models.

Falik was a professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and has performed as a conductor in Russia and abroad.

Works

• Study time: five piano preludes, oboe concerto, symphony for strings and percussion
• 1965: 2nd string quartet
• 1966: Skomorochi - Concerto for wind quintet and percussion
• 1967: Ballet mystery in one act: Tyll Ulenspiegel (after Charles de Coster ); in the same year combined into a one-movement, four-part concert for orchestra
• 1968: Oresteia , Choreographic Tragedy
• Inventions for vibraphone , marimbaphone and five tom-toms
• Easy symphony
• 1971: Violin Concerto
• 1975: 3rd string quartet
• 1975: Elegic Music - In memory of Igor Stravinsky
• 1976: Quartet No. 4
• 1977: Symphonic Etudes
• 1978: Quartet No. 5
• 1984: Scapin's pranks , opera (based on Molière )
• 1993: Symphony No. 2 Kaddish
• 1996: Mass for soloists, choir and chamber orchestra
• 2001: Elegies for solo soprano and a cappella choir (based on texts by Akhmatova and Gumiljow )

Sound carrier

• String quartet No. 3 / elegiac music / concert for orchestra (based on motifs from Tyll Ulenspiegel) - Melodia / Eterna 8 27 369, 1980
• New recordings by the Atrium Quartet after 2000

Web links

• Works by and about Juri Alexandrowitsch Falik in the catalog of the German National Library
• Juri Falik on kino-teatr (Russian)