Boris Petrovich Kravchenko (Борис Петрович Кравченко) (29 November 1929 in Leningrad – 9 February 1979 in Leningrad) was a Russian composer.

Works

* Puppet opera for the

State Puppet Theatre of Fairy Tales The Saint Petersburg State Puppet Theatre of Fairy Tales also known as the "Fairy Tale Theater" is an all-ages, Russian puppet theatre focused on imaginative, morallic performances based around personifying the world through quixotic fantasy and p ...

after Pushkin's

The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda "The Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda" (russian: «Сказка о попе и о работнике его Балде», Skazka o pope i o rabotnike yego Balde) is a fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin wrote the tale ...

(Сказка о попе и работнике его Балде) 1972Georgi Turayev "The State Puppet Theatre of Fairy Tales" in ed. Malcolm Knight ''Proceedings of the Soviet/British Puppetry Conference: Glasgow'' 1992 p52 "The composer Boris Kravchenko, an old friend who wrote music for many of the company's productions, ... Boris Kravchenko wrote wonderful music, similar to folk music, which followed the simple and expressive style of Russian folk songs "

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kravchenko, Boris Russian composers Russian male composers 1929 births 1979 deaths 20th-century Russian male musicians