Sergei Artemyevich Balasanyan

Sergei Artemyevitch Balassanjan ( Russian Сергей Артемьевич Баласанян * August 13 ^{. Jul} / 26. August 1902 ^greg. In Ashgabat ; † 3. June 1982 in Moscow ) was a Soviet composer of Armenian descent.

After studying in Tbilisi , Leningrad and with Dmitri Kabalewski in Moscow, Balasanjan worked for radio. He was involved in founding the Tajik Opera and Ballet Theater in Dushanbe , which opened in 1937. With Der Wose-Aufstand ( Shurishi Wose ), performed in 1939, Balasanjan composed the first Tajik national opera from forms of Armenian and Tajik music . Since 1948 he was a composition teacher at the Moscow Conservatory .

Balassanjan also used material from Afghan, Indian and Indonesian folk music in his works. In addition to four operas and two ballets , piano works, choirs, songs , stage and film music, he composed numerous programmatic orchestral works.

Works

Stage works

Восстание Восе - The Wose Uprising (1939), opera
Лейли и Меджнун (1947/1956/1964), ballet

Orchestral works

Tajik Suite (1943)
Armenian Rhapsody (1944)
Pamir (1944)
Seven Armenian Songs (1955)
Afghan Suite (1956)
The islands of Indonesia (1960)
Rhapsody on Themes by Rabindranath Tagore (1961)

literature

Baker's biographical dictionary of twentieth-century classical musicians. Schirmer Books, New York 1997, ISBN 0-02-871271-4 , p. 66.
Article Balasanjan, Sergei Artemjewitsch in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)

Web links

Galina Grigor′yeva: Balasanyan, Sergey Artem′yevich. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
Biography and catalog raisonné on kino.teatr.ru

Individual evidence

↑ Ernst Stöckl: Balasanjan, Sergej Artem'evič. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 2 (Bagatti - Bizet). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1112-8 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

personal data
SURNAME	Balasanjan, Sergei Artemjewitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	soviet composer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 26, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ashgabat
DATE OF DEATH	3rd June 1982
Place of death	Moscow

[1] Ernst Stöckl: Balasanjan, Sergej Artem'evič. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 2 (Bagatti - Bizet). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1112-8 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)