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)
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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 |