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Grigory Frid
Grigory Samuilovich Frid also known as Grigori Fried (russian: Григо́рий Самуи́лович Фри́д, 22 September N.S. 1915 – 22 September 2012) was a Russian composer of music written in many different genres, including chamber opera. Early life and education Born in Petrograd, now St. Petersburg, Frid studied in the Moscow Conservatory with Heinrich Litinsky and Vissarion Shebalin. He was a soldier in the Second World War. Career Frid was a prolific composer. His most notable works are his two chamber operas, both to his own libretti. ''The Diary of Anne Frank'' is a monodrama in 21 scenes for soprano and chamber orchestra, lasting about one hour. It was composed in 1968 and given a first performance with piano accompaniment at the All-Union House of Composers in Moscow on either 17 or 18 May 1972.SikorskiThe Diary of Anne Frank/ref>New Grove Dictionary of Opera. "Grigory Frid", volume II, page 303. ''The Letters of Van Gogh'' is a mono-opera in two parts for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigory Frid 2004 Ruza
Grigory, Grigori and Grigoriy are Russian masculine given names. It may refer to watcher angels or more specifically to the egrḗgoroi or Watcher angels. Grigory * Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009), Russian novelist * Grigory Barenblatt (19272018), Russian mathematician * Grigory Bey-Bienko (1903–1971), Russian entomologist * Grigory Danilevsky (1829–1890), Russian novelist * Grigory Falko (born 1987), Russian swimmer * Grigory Fedotov (1916–1957), Soviet football player and manager * Grigory Frid (1915–2012), Russian composer * Grigory Gagarin (1810–1893), Russian painter and military commander * Grigory Gamarnik (born 1929), Soviet wrestler * Grigory Gamburtsev (1903–1955), Soviet seismologist * Grigory Ginzburg (1904–1961), Russian pianist * Grigory Grum-Grshimailo (1860–1936), Russian entomologist * Grigory Gurkin (1870–1937), Altay landscape painter * Grigory Helbach (1863–1930), Russian chess master * Grigory Kiriyenko (born 1965), Russian fencer * Grigor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music. People who create new compositions are called composers. Composers of primarily songs are usually called songwriters; with songs, the person who writes lyrics for a song is the lyricist. In many cultures, including Western classical music, the act of composing typically includes the creation of music notation, such as a sheet music "score," which is then performed by the composer or by other musicians. In popular music and traditional music, songwriting may involve the creation of a basic outline of the song, called the lead sheet, which sets out the melody, lyrics and chord progression. In classical music, orchestration (choosing the instruments of a large music ensemble such as an orchestra which will play the different parts of music, such as the melody, accompaniment, countermelody ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Erik Deckert
Hans Erik Deckert (born 1927 in Hamburg) is a German cellist. He began his musical career at the Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt with Kurt Thomas. After 1945, he took up studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. Later, he studied among others with Sergiu Celibidache. In addition to teaching at various Scandinavian conservatories from 1960 to 1989, Deckert has been active internationally as a soloist, chamber musician and conductor. on Researchgate.net He is founder and president of the Danish section of the European String Teachers Association (ESTA), initiator of the Cello Academy and member of the orchestra of the Royal Opera Copenhagen. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yury Solomin
Yury Mefodievich Solomin (russian: Ю́рий Мефо́диевич Соло́мин; born June 18, 1935 in Chita) is a Soviet and Russian actor and director who has been art director of the Maly Theatre in Moscow since 1988. Minister of Culture of the RSFSR in 1990-1991. Biography Solomin studied at the Malyi theatre school and joined its troupe in 1957. He was acclaimed as Khlestakov in Igor Ilyinsky's production of ''The Government Inspector'' (1966), Tsar Feodor in ''Tsar Feodor Ioannovich'' (1976), Slavin in '' TASS Is Authorized to Declare...'' TV series (1984), Nicholas II in ''Az Vosdam...'' (1990), and Famusov in his own production of ''Woe'' ''from Wit'' (2000). Solomin was cast as a Russian imperial officer in many Soviet movies, including Akira Kurosawa's ''Dersu Uzala'' (1975), which won him a Japanese decoration for the outstanding contribution to the world culture (1993). Solomin served as the Russian Minister of Culture from 1990 to 1992. March 11, 2014 signed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Yutkevich
Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich (russian: Серге́й Ио́сифович Ютке́вич, 28 December 1904 – 23 April 1985) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1962) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1974). Life and career He began work as a teen doing puppet shows. Between 1921 and 1923 he studied under Vsevolod Meyerhold. Later he helped found the ''Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS)'', which was primarily concerned with circus and music hall acts. He entered films in the 1920s and began directing in 1928. His films often were cheerier than most Russian films as he was influenced by American slapstick, among other things. However he also did serious historical films, docudramas, and biopics. He won Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director twice: for ''Othello'' in 1956 and for ''Lenin in Poland'' in 1966. Of his later films ''Lenin in Paris'' is among the best known. In 1959, 1961 and 1967 respectively, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuil Zalmanovich Galkin
Shmuel Zalmanovich Halkin ( yi, שמואל האַלקין; be, Самуіл Залманавіч Галкін, ''Samuil Zalmanavič Halkin''; ; December 5, 1897 – September 21, 1960), also known as Samuil Galkin, was a Jewish poet of the Soviet Union who wrote lyric poetry and translated many writers into Yiddish. Biography Halkin was born in Rahachow, in what was then the Russian Empire (now Belarus) on December 5, 1897. He was the youngest of nine children in a Hasidic, Jewish household and a cousin of Simon and Abraham Halkin. Halkin was interested in Jewish culture as a child, later as a young man he would become interested in painting and literature before ultimately deciding to become a poet. In his youth he wrote his poetry in Hebrew, but from 1921 onwards he wrote in Yiddish. Halkin's first poems were published in 1917 in an anthology. He would then move to Moscow in 1922, after having lived in Kiyv for a year, where he published his debut collection ''Lider'' (Son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ho Chi Minh
(: ; born ; 19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), commonly known as ('Uncle Hồ'), also known as ('President Hồ'), (' Old father of the people') and by other aliases, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman. He served as Prime Minister of Vietnam from 1945 to 1955 and as President from 1945 until his death in 1969. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, he served as Chairman and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam. was born in Nghệ An province in the French protectorate of Annam. He led the independence movement from 1941 onward. Initially, it was an umbrella group for all parties fighting for Vietnam's independence, but the Communist Party gained majority support after 1945. led the Communist-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, defeating the French Union in 1954 at the Battle of , ending the First Indochina War, and resulting in the division of Vietnam, with the Communists in control of North Vietnam. He was a key figure in the Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. He remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, a=ru-Pushkin.ogg; ) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.Basker, Michael. Pushkin and Romanticism. In Ferber, Michael, ed., ''A Companion to European Romanticism''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poetShort biography from University of Virginia . Retrieved 24 November 2006.Allan Rei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenin In Paris
''Lenin in Paris'' (russian: Ленин в Париже, Lenin v Parizhe) is a Soviet biopic directed by Sergei Yutkevich in 1981 on Mosfilm. Synopsis Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin spent four years in Paris (1909–1912), and this historical docudrama explores those years with a certain amount of humor. Lenin is shown visiting with friends, the meetings with his later mistress Inessa Armand (in the movie she is in love with a young communist, Trofimov), while several of his philosophical views and economic and political theories are mouthed by a former colleague who narrates the film and brings the material into the present. Cast * Yuri Kayurov as Vladimir Lenin *Claude Jade as Inessa Armand * Vladimir Antonik as Aleksandr Trofimov *Valentina Svetlova as Nadezhda Krupskaya * Pavel Kadochnikov as Paul Lafargue *Antonina Maksimova as Laura Lafargue * Boris Ivanov as Jacob Zhitomirsky *Sergei Pozharsky as Montéhus * Albert Filozov as leader of the anarchists *Yelena Koreneva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Korolenko
Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko (russian: Влади́мир Галактио́нович Короле́нко, ua, Володи́мир Галактіо́нович Короле́нко; 27 July 1853 – 25 December 1921) was a Ukrainian-born Russian writer, journalist, human rights activist and humanitarian of Ukrainian and Polish origin. His best-known work include the short novel '' The Blind Musician'' (1886), as well as numerous short stories based upon his experience of exile in Siberia. Korolenko was a strong critic of the Tsarist regime and in his final years of the Bolsheviks. Biography Early life Vladimir Korolenko was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine (Volhynian Governorate), then part of the Russian Empire.Tyunkin, K.I. Foreword. The Works by V.G. Korolenko in 6 volumes. Pravda Publishers. Ogonyok Library. Moscow, 1971. Vol. 1, pp. 3-38 His Ukrainian Cossack father, Poltava-born Galaktion Afanasyevich Korolenko (1810-1868), was a district judge who, "amongst the people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuil Marshak
Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (alternative spelling: Marchak) (russian: link=no, Самуил Яковлевич Маршак; 4 July 1964) was a Russian and Soviet writer of Jewish origin, translator and poet who wrote for both children and adults. He translated the sonnets and some other of the works of William Shakespeare, English poetry (including poems for children), and poetry from other languages. Maxim Gorky proclaimed Marshak to be "the founder of Russia's (Soviet) children's literature". Early years Marshak was born to a Jewish family on 3 November 1887 in Voronezh.''Samuil Marshak.'' An anthology of Jewish-Russian literature. Maxim Shrayer. p. 192. (M.E. Sharpe February 15, 2007Google Books/ref> His father was a foreman at a soap-making plant. He had a good home education and later studied at the gymnasium (secondary school) of Ostrogozhsk, a suburb of Voronezh. He started to write poetry during his childhood years in Voronezh. His brother Ilya (who wrote under the pseudon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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