Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov (russian: Кирилл Владимирович Молчанов; 7 September 1922 – 14 March 1982) was a Russian and Soviet composer.
He was appointed director of the Bolshoi, at the time political disfavour had fallen on the lead soprano
Galina Vishnevskaya
Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya (russian: links=no, Галина Павловна Вишневская, Ivanova, Иванова; 25 October 192611 December 2012) was a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist o ...
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His works are in the Social Realist romantic tradition and were not warmly received when performed abroad.
[World affairs report 1975 "The Bolshoi Opera performed "The Dawns Are Quiet Here," by Kiril Molchanov at Lincoln Center's Metropolitan Opera House (NYT, 7/14). It is a piece of socialist realism about the heroism of women in an anti-aircraft company during World War II. It was panned by Harold C. Schonberg, who suggested the only reason it was performed was because Molchanov is director general of the Bolshoi Opera."]
Works
Operas
Taken from:
* ''The Stone Flower'' (Каменный цветок) inspired by
Pavel Bazhov
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Bazhov is best known for his collection of fairy tales '' The Malachite Box'', based on Ura ...
's story
of the same name, Moscow, 1950
* ''Dawn'' (Заря) on the play of
Boris Lavrenyov
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"Rift" «Разлом», Moscow, 1956
* ''Via del Corno'' (Улица дель Корно) based on a novel by
Vasco Pratolini
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He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
Biography
Born in Florence, Pratolini worked at various jobs before entering the l ...
, own libretto, Moscow, 1960
* ''Romeo, Juliet and Darkness'' (Ромео, Джульетта и тьма) based on the novel of
Jan Otčenášek, own libretto. Leningrad, 1963
* ''The Unknown Soldier'' (Неизвестный солдат) own libretto. Voronezh, 1967
* ''Russian woman'' (Русская женщина) (on the novel by
Yuri Nagibin "Petticoat Government" «Бабье царство» own libretto. Voronezh, 1969)
* ''
The Dawns Here Are Quiet'' (Зори здесь тихие) on the novel by
Boris Vasilyev own libretto, Frunze, 1973
Musicals
* ''Odysseus, Penelope, and others'' (Одиссей, Пенелопа и другие) inspired by Homer, own libretto, 1970
Works for soloist, chorus and orchestra
* Cantata poem "Song of Friendship" (lyrics by N. Dorizo, 1954)
Works for piano
* A cycle of Russian paintings (1953)
Works for voice and piano
* Cycle to words by the Cuban poet
Nicolás Guillén
Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista (10 July 1902 – 17 July 1989) was a Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba. (1956),
* Cycle to words by
Langston Hughes (1958),
* Cycle to the words of Soviet poets (1961)
* Cycle to the words of
F. Garcia Lorca (1963),
* Hiroshima Song (lyrics by modern Japanese poets, 1964)
* Black Box "Черная шкатулка", lyrics of the Czech writer
Ludwig Ashkenazy, (1967)
* Love lyrics of contemporary poets from different countries, (1972)
* To the words of
Sergei Yesenin (1972)
* The Sonnets of
Petrarch
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(1974)
* Miniatures, lyrics of
Bai Juyi
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, (1974)
Songs including:
* Here are the soldiers go (lyrics by
Mikhail Grigorievich Lvovskii 1919-1994)
* Fires are so many gold (lyrics by N. Dorizo)
Theatre Music
To over 30 dramatic productions, including:
* "Mary Stuart" Schiller (
Moscow Art Academic Theatre MAT, 1956)
* "Three Fat Men" Olesha (MAT, 1961)
* "Kola Bryunon" R. Rolland (MAT, 1972)
Music for films
More than 30, including:
* ''
Great is my Country'' ''Shyroka Strana Moya Rodnaya'' (1958)
* ''
It Happened in Penkovo'' «Дело было в Пенькове» (1957)
* "Intractable" «Неподдающиеся» (1959)
* "On the Seven Winds" «На семи ветрах» (1962)
* "Shore" «Увольнение на берег» (1962)
* "Halt" «Полустанок» (1963)
* ''
We'll Live Till Monday'' «Доживём до понедельника» (1968)
* ''
The Dawns Here Are Quiet'' «А зори здесь тихие» (1972).
Ballets
* Macbeth
* Three Cards (russian: Три карты, Tri karty)
Recordings
*''Macbeth'', Ballet: Alexei Fadayechev, Nina Timofeyeva, staged by Vladimir Vasiliev, the Bolshoi theater orchestra conducted by
Fuat Mansurov
Fuat Mansurov ( tt-Cyrl, Фоат Шакир улы Мансуров, russian: Мансуров, Фуат Шакирович) (January 10, 1928 – June 12, 2010) was a Soviet and Russian conductor.
Biography
Mansurov was born on 10 January 1928 ...
, D1115 Kultur.
References
External links
Кирилл Молчанов на портале Кино-Театр. РУ* Documentary
(Россия, 2007)
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1922 births
1982 deaths
Musicians from Moscow
Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Russian male classical composers
Soviet composers
Soviet male composers
Russian opera composers
Male opera composers
20th-century classical composers
20th-century Russian male musicians