Orest Alexandrovich Jewlachow

Orest Alexandrovich Jewlachow ( Russian Орест Александрович Евлахов , scientific. Transliteration Orest Aleksandrovič Evlachov ; born January 4 ^{. Jul} / 17th January  1912 ^greg. In Warsaw , Congress Poland ; †  15. December 1973 in Leningrad , Soviet Union ) was a Russian composer and pedagogue .

Life

Jewlachow studied with Pyotr Ryazanov and until 1941 with Dmitri Shostakovich at the Leningrad Conservatory . In 1947 he became a lecturer there, and then in 1963 professor of composition. He was considered a classic of the Leningrad School and composed, among other things, three symphonies, symphonic suites, concerts, ballets, chamber, theater and film music. He became known through the ballad The Night Patrol , which - like Shostakovich's 7th Symphony - was created during the siege of Leningrad . His students included composers such as Boris Tishchenko , Sergei Slonimski , Andrei Petrow , Valeri Gawrillin , Isaak Schwarz and German Okunew .

Works (selection)

• Piano Concerto No. 1 (1940)
• The Night Patrol (1942/43), Dramatic ballad for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, in: Leningrad cycle (1944)
• Symphony No. 1 (1944-46)
• Symphony No. 2 (1963)
• Symphony No. 3 (1967)
• Concerto-Poem for violin and orchestra (1971)

literature

• Detlef Gojowy :  Yevlakhov, Orest Aleksandrovich. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
• Igor 'Karpinsky:  Evlachov, Orest Aleksandrovič. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 6 (Eames - Franco). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2001, ISBN 3-7618-1116-0  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
• Andrei Petrov: Orest Evlakhov . Sovetskij kompozitor, Leningrad 1981, OCLC 16226526 .
• Izrail Gusin: Orest Evlakhov . Muzyka, Leningrad 1964, OCLC 28931108 .

Web links

• Data on Evlachov, Orest Aleksandrovič in the catalog of the German National Library
• Orest Jewlachow on Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Detlef Gojowy:  Yevlakhov, Orest Aleksandrovich. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
2. ^ Krzysztof Meyer : Schostakowitsch. His life, his work, his time . Gustav Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, ISBN 3-7857-0772-X , p. 256 f .
3. ↑ Orest Jewlachow on biografija.ru (Russian)
4. ↑ Boris Yoffe : In the flow of the symphonic . Wolke, Hofheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-95593-059-2 , pp. 469 f .
5. ↑ Евлахов, Орест Александрович. In: Большая биографическая энциклопедия , 2009 (Russian).
6. ↑ Igor 'Karpinskij:  Evlachov, Orest Aleksandrovič. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 6 (Eames - Franco). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2001, ISBN 3-7618-1116-0  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)