Oskar Borissowitsch Felzman

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Oskar Borissowitsch Felzman ( Russian Оскар Борисович Фельцман , scientific transliteration Oskar Borisovič Fel'cman ; born  February 18, 1921 in Odessa , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ; †  February 3, 2013 in Moscow , Russia ) was a Ukrainian-Russian composer .

Oskar Felzman 2011

life and work

The son of a surgeon with professional piano training, he grew up in a Jewish family. Early on in Odessa he learned violin with Pyotr Stoljarski and piano with Bertha Reingbald, a respected professor whose students also included Emil Gilels and Tatjana Goldfarb . Felzman studied composition, initially until 1939 at the Stoljarsky Music School in Odessa with Mykola Wilinskyj , then until 1941 at the Moscow Conservatory with Vissarion Schebalin . During the Second World War he was evacuated to Novosibirsk in 1941 , where he became secretary of the Siberian Composers' Union at the age of 20. He also achieved his first successes as a composer, for example with the operetta Синий платочек [Blue Cloth] based on a text by Valentin Katajew , a work of the light genre that was critically evaluated in Pravda .

In 1945 he returned to Moscow . A series of musical comedies such as Дочь фельдмаршала [Field Marshal's Daughter] (1946), Чужая ночь [Stranger Night] (1946), Воздушный замок [ Castle in the air] (1948) and Ерсли се4948 . 1952 followed Суворочка and Шумит Средиземное море . He also wrote music for the circus, for stage concerts and for the children's theater directed by Natalija Saz . He also composed orchestral works such as the Violin Concerto (1952).

He wrote his first songs for the entertainment orchestra of the Moscow jazz band leader Leonid Utjossow . His first song Теплоход [Motor Ship ] (1952) became very popular and was a success on television and radio and was also released on record with Ulyosov. In the post-Stalinist thaw period , Felzman advanced to become one of the most important composers of Soviet entertainment and pop music, the Estrada . This was followed by Черное море мое (1956) for the film Матрос с "Кометы" (1958) and Ландыши [lily of the valley] (1957), a song that with the singer Gelena Marzelijewna Velikanowa was a success, but from the official side as " and was criticized ideologically "unfounded". In the 1960s, other well-known songs were written, such as Я верю, друзья , which became famous in the year of Yuri Gagarin's space flight . Felzman's songs achieved great distribution and popularity through vocal interpreters, pop and star stars - u. a. by Mark Bernes , Edita Pjecha , Walentina Tolkunowa , Iossif Kobson , Müslüm Maqomayev , Eduard Anatoljewitsch Chil , Lev Leschtschenko , Georg Ots and Sofija Rotaru .

In the 1970s, Felzman composed a number of song cycles based on poems by Robert Roschdestwenski , Evgeni Dolmatowski and Rassul Gamsatow . In 1973 he turned back to operetta - with works such as Тётка Чарлея , Старые дома and Пусть гитара играет . In the mid-1980s he founded his own instrumental ensemble, Огни Москвы , with pop and esteemed singer Irina Allegrowa , which Dawid Tuchmanow later took over. In 1987 Felzman wrote the vocal cycle Песни былого ( Четыре еврейские песни ). In the 1990s he composed the ballets Булочка (1995) and Венера Ильская (2000), later followed by chamber music cycles with romances to poems by Inna Lisnjanskaja and Marina Zwetajewa .

Felzman's work encompassed almost all genres - orchestral works, concerts, oratorios, cantatas and vocal cycles, but above all musical comedies, operettas, musicals and in particular around 800 popular songs. He has also written music for the theater and for over 80 films. Even in the post-Soviet period, he was considered by many to be a “genius of the easy genre”.

Personal

He was married to Yevgenia Kaidanovskaya since 1941 (died 2000). The son Vladimir Feltsman (* 1952) became a pianist and left for the USA in 1987.

documentary

A documentary from 2009 contains memories of the then 88-year-old composer.

Awards

literature

  • Oskar B. Fel'cman: Ne tol'ko vospominanija [Not just memories] . Olma-Press, Moscow 2000, ISBN 5-224-01068-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Vita on kino-teatr (Russian)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g biography on enc.academic (Russian)
  3. ↑ CV on sovmusic (Russian)
  4. ↑ Author of Yuri Gagarin's song Oscar Feltsman dies at 92 , obituary on pravda.ru of February 4, 2013 (English)
  5. ↑ a b c biography in jewage (English)
  6. ↑ Obituary to russkyi mir from February 4, 2013 (English)
  7. ↑ Catalog of works on dic.academic (Russian)
  8. ↑ The genius of the light genre , obituary in gazeta.ru of February 4, 2013 (Russian)
  9. ↑ Documentary about and with Feltsman from 2009
personal data
SURNAME Felzman, Oskar Borissowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Фельцман, Оскар Борисович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 2013
Place of death Moscow