Vasily Ivanovich Lebedew-Kumach

Vasily Lebedew-Kumatsch, 1941

Lebedev-Kumach's tombstone in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow

Vasily Lebedev-Kumach ( Russian Василий Иванович Лебедев-Кумач ; scientific. Transliteration Vasilij Ivanovich Lebedev Kumač ; July 24 * ^{. Jul} / 5. August 1898 ^greg. In Moscow , † 20 February 1949 ) was a Soviet song writer, Estrada hit songwriter , satirist and screenplay writer.

biography

Lebedev-Kumach worked from 1919 to 1921 in the press office of the Revolutionary Military Council (Реввоенсовет) chaired by Leon Trotsky and for the propaganda department Agit-ROSTA. He studied at Moscow State University and made a name for himself as a writer of satirical poems, short stories and essays, which were published in various newspapers and magazines and as his own collections. He wrote for the stage and for the sound film, especially song lyrics.

Lebedev-Kumach is considered to be one of the founders of the genre of the Soviet mass song. Many of his songs became known throughout the Soviet Union, some even internationally: Марш весёлых ребят (1934), Песня о Родине (1936; both to melodies by IO Dunajewski ), Гимн партики маски Мольшевикосв and Мольшевикосв Мольшевикосв .

Two days after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Pravda and Der Rote Stern (the newspaper of the Red Army ) published a poem by Lebedev- Kumach with the title Священная война ( The Holy War ), which was published a few days later by AA Alexandrow was set to music and premiered and soon became the "war anthem of the Soviet Union". In 1941 he received the State Prize of the Soviet Union .

Many of Lebedew-Kumatsch's songs were copied in numerous languages, including German (by Stephan Hermlin and Erich Fried, among others ) and Chinese.

Works

satire

Развод , 1925
Чаинки в блюдце , 1925
Со всех волостей , 1926
Печальные улыбки , 1927
Людишки и делишки , 1927

Texts for film music

Весёлые ребята
Цирк

Collective works

Лирика. Сатира. Фельетон , 1939
Песни и стихотворения , 1960

literature

В. Ардов, Путь В. И. Лебедева-Кумача . In: Красная новь , 1938, № 6.
М. Беккер, Творческий путь В. И. Лебедева-Кумача . In: О поэтах , 1961.

Web links

Footnotes

↑ Helmut Berding, Klaus Heller, Winfried Speitkamp (eds.), War and Memory. Case studies on the 19th and 20th centuries , Göttingen, Vandenhoeck / Ruprecht 2000, ISBN 3-525-35423-1 , p. 160.
↑ Yuan Fan 苑范 (ed.), E-Su gequ zhenpin xuanji 俄苏歌曲珍品选集, Shanghai yinyue chubanshe 上海音乐出版社 2007, ISBN 978-7-80751-123-6 .

personal data
SURNAME	Lebedew-Kumatsch, Wassili Iwanowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Лебедев-Кумач, Василий Иванович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet songwriter, satirist and film script writer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 5, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow
DATE OF DEATH	February 20, 1949
Place of death	Moscow

[1] Helmut Berding, Klaus Heller, Winfried Speitkamp (eds.), War and Memory. Case studies on the 19th and 20th centuries , Göttingen, Vandenhoeck / Ruprecht 2000, ISBN 3-525-35423-1 , p. 160.

[2] Yuan Fan 苑范 (ed.), E-Su gequ zhenpin xuanji 俄苏歌曲珍品选集, Shanghai yinyue chubanshe 上海音乐出版社 2007, ISBN 978-7-80751-123-6 .