Stepan Anikiyevich Degtyarev (Степан Аникиевич Дегтярёв) (17665 May 1813), was a renowned Russian

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

of the late 18th century. He was most famous for his nationalistic Russian Choral Music. His oratorio ''Minin and Pozharsky - or the Liberation of Moscow'' (1811) concerned the 1612 liberation of Moscow from Polish occupation during the

Time of Troubles The Time of Troubles (russian: Смутное время, ), or Smuta (russian: Смута), was a period of political crisis during the Tsardom of Russia which began in 1598 with the death of Fyodor I (Fyodor Ivanovich, the last of the Rurik dy ...

interregnum by the Second Zemschina Army led by

Kuzma Minin Kuzma (Kozma) Minin (; full name Kuzma Minich Zakhariev-Sukhoruky, born late 1570s - died 1616) was a Russian merchant from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, who, together with Prince Dmitry Pozharsky, became a national hero for his role in defending the ...

-Sukhoruk, a fishmonger, and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky.

Works, editions and recordings

Works * Oratorio ''Minin and Pozharsky - or the Liberation of Moscow'' «Минин и Пожарский, или освобождение Москвы» 1811 Recordings * ''Minin and Pozharsky - or the Liberation of Moscow'', Conductor

Sergei Skripka Sergei Ivanovich Skripka (russian: Серге́й Иванович Скрипка; October 5, 1949 in Kharkov) is a Soviet and Russian conductor, and a People's Artist of Russia People's Artist of the Russian Federation (russian: Народны� ...

, The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Melodiya 1990 (2CD)

References

* Ritzarev, Marina (2006), ''Eighteenth-Century Russian Music'' (Ashgate)

External links

Book on Degtiarev
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