Leonid Ossipowitsch Utjossow

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Leonid Ossipowitsch Utjossow
Postage stamp of Russia , Leonid Ulyosov, 1999 , 2 rub. (Michel 756, Scott 6542)

Leonid Osipovich Utjossow ( Russian Леонид Осипович Утёсов , Ukrainian Леонід Осипович Утьосов ; real name Lazar [ Lejser ] white leg , Russian Лазарь [Лейзер] Иосифович Вайсбейн , Ukrainian Лазар [Лейзер] Йосифович Вайсбейн ; born March 9 . Jul / 21st March  1895 greg . in Odessa ; † March 9, 1982 in Moscow ) was a popular jazz singer, band leader and actor in the Soviet Union .

Life

Ulyossov was born in 1895 to a Jewish family in Odessa . From 1911 he made his first artistic steps with a theater with which he traveled across the country and also appeared in Moscow and Leningrad . At the end of the 1920s he built his first jazz orchestra. His first venue was the Small Opera in Leningrad, where he celebrated his first major successes. In the following years, Ulyossov was the charismatic leader and front man of his bands. In 1934 he appeared in Funny Boys , the Soviet Union's first film musical. Even after that, Utjossow appeared regularly in films as an actor.

He covered a wide range of musical genres: jazz (especially the swing style of the 1930s) was just as much a part of it as Soviet light music ( Estrada ), film music and recordings with so-called crook chansons .

On May 9, 1945, he performed alongside other musicians on Red Square in Moscow at the victory celebrations at the end of the Second World War. He was an active musician until the end of his life. To this day he is one of the most important artists in the first decades of the Soviet Union.

In 1965 he received the People's Artist of the USSR award . In 1982 Ulyossov died in Moscow.

Honorary degrees and awards

Filmography

Photo from the film "Funny Lads"
  • 1928 stranger ( Чужие )
  • 1934 Funny guys ( Весёлые ребята )
  • 1954 Funny Stars ( Веселые звезды )
  • 1963 Melodies by Dunayevsky ( Мелодии Дунаевского )
  • 1975 Arkadi Raikin ( Аркадий Райкин )

Films using Ulyosov's recordings

  • 1959 The first day of peace ( Первый день мира )
  • 1967 Spring on the Oder ( Весна на Одере )
  • 1974 departure is delayed ( Вылет задерживается )
  • 1979 The Black Cat ( Место встречи изменить нельзя )
  • 1982 The Pokrovsky Gates ( Покровские ворота )
  • 1982 Old record ( Старая пластинка )
  • 2007 liquidation ( Ликвидация )

Songs

  • Baron von der Pshik ( Барон фон дер Пшик ; S. Secunda  - A. Fidrowsky)
  • March of merry lads ( Марш веселых ребят ; I. Dunajewski  - W. Lebedew-Kumach )
  • Everything perfect, Mme la Marquise ( Всё хорошо, прекрасная маркиза ; P. Misraki  - P. Misraki, A. Besymenski )
  • Ah, my Odessa ( Ах, Одесса моя ; A. Eschpai  - V. Kotow)
  • In Zemlyanka ( В землянке ; K. Listow - A. Surkow)
  • The way to Berlin ( Дорога на Берлин ; M. Fradkin - E. Dolmatowski)
  • Havana ( Гавана ; L.Utjossow)
  • Two friends ( Два друга ; S. Germanow - V. Gusew)
  • The Moscow Windows ( Московские окна ; T. Chrennikow  - M. Matusowski)
  • Lullaby ( Колыбельная ; M. Blanter  - A. Kovalenkow)
  • Heart ( Сердце ; I. Dunajewski  - W. Lebedew-Kumach )

literature

  • Barry Dean Kernfeld (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz . 2nd ed. Grove, New York 2002, ISBN 0-333-69189-X .

Web links

Commons : Leonid Utesov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Leonid Utjossow - biography. Retrieved May 14, 2018 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Ulyossov, Leonid Ossipowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Utesov, Leonid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1982
Place of death Moscow