Vladimir Jakowlewitsch Schainski

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Wladimir Schainski at the award of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland (Level IV) by Vladimir Putin in 2005

Wladimir Jakowlewitsch Schainski ( Russian Владимир Яковлевич Шаинский ; born December 12, 1925 in Kiev ; † December 25, 2017 in San Diego ) was a Soviet or Russian composer. He gained fame at home and abroad since 1969 with his children's songs for Soviet cartoons, e.g. B. Antoschka and the songs of the crocodile Gena in the Cheburashka films.

life and work

Wladimir Schainski already received musical training at the conservatory as a student in Kiev, which he completed in 1943 after his family had to be relocated to Tashkent ( Uzbekistan ) due to the war . He then served in the Central Asian region until the end of the war in the Soviet Army . After the war he continued his education at the orchestral faculty of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory . He then worked in various orchestras, including that of the well-known jazz singer and bandleader Leonid Utjossow (1895–1982) from 1949 .

From 1962 to 1965 Schainski studied at the composing faculty of the Baku Music Academy ( Baku , Azerbaijan ), where he was part of the folk music class of Kara Karajew (1918–1982). During this time he began composing with a string quartet (1963) and a symphony (1965).

In 1969 the Soviet animation studio Soyuzmultfilm opened its new series Happy Carousel (Russian Весёлая карусель ) and filmed the song Antoschka von Schainski for the first episode (text: Juri Entin ). The song became very popular in the Soviet Union. Up to the present day it has been a folk song in Russia, and it has reached over ten million views on the YouTube video portal .

Since 1971 Schainski wrote the songs for the Cheburashka cartoons. Two of them, the song of the crocodile Gena (1971) and Blauer Wagon (1973) achieved enormous fame after the choir boy Serjoscha Paramonov performed them with the Great Children's Choir of Soviet television and radio . Schainski's songs were part of the program of the TV music festival Song of the Year , which was a highly regarded end-of-year program in the Soviet Union.

Schainski wrote a total of around 300 songs, mainly for children's cartoons, many of which are known to subsequent generations even after the end of the Soviet Union. He has also created the music for feature films and a documentary film since the 1970s. In 1974 he composed a children's opera, later several musicals - two of them after the end of the Soviet Union, in 1993 and 1994.

Wladimir Schainski was married three times and has two sons (* 1971, * 1987) and a daughter (* 1991) from the last two marriages. He lived in Moscow until 2000 , then in Israel and since 2004 in San Diego , USA . Schainski died in the United States at the age of 92.

He was a member of the United Russia party , which supports Russian President Vladimir Putin .

honors and awards

In the GDR , Wladimir Schainski received the medal for German-Soviet friendship in silver (1971) and gold (1972) as well as the GDR Art Prize (1976) at the very beginning of his fame . In the Soviet Union he was awarded high prizes and awards, including the State Prize of the USSR (1981), the Komsomol Prize (1980) and the award as People's Artist of Russia (1986). He was also honored for his work in post-Soviet Russia , including the award of the Order of Friendship (1995), the Order of Honor (2001) and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland 4th grade (2005).

Web links

Commons : Wladimir Schainski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Russian text and notes by Antoschka
  2. ↑ Antoschka from Merry Carousel No. 1 ( Весёлая карусель №1 ) . Retrieved February 3, 2012
  3. ↑ http://www.mk.ru ( Moskovsky Komsomolez of December 26, 2017; Russian)
  4. ↑ www.kp.ru (Komsomolskaya Pravda of August 15, 2006; Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Schainski, Vladimir Jakowlewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Шаинский, Владимир Яковлевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet or Russian composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 2017
Place of death San Diego