Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kobekin (Владимир Александрович Кобекин) (b. 22 July 1947,

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best known for his

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compositions. He studied under

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at the

Leningrad Conservatory The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (russian: Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория имени Н. А. Римского-Корсакова) (formerly known as th ...

. After graduating in 1971 he taught music composition at the

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(1971–1980). From 1992 to 1995 he served as chairman of the Ural branch of the

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. Since 1995 he has been a senior lecturer in the composition department at the Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire. Among his notable pupils is opera composer Anastasia Bespalova. In 1987 he won the Honoured Representative of the Arts Award, and later that year he was made a laureate of the

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Works

Operas

* ''Hamlet (Danish) a (Russian) Comedy'' ("Гамлет Датский, или Российская комедия") - musical comedy. premiered at the

Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre The Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre (russian: Московский академический Музыкальный театр имени народных артистов К. С. Станиславског ...

in 2008.Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre - "Hamlet (Danish)"
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'' "Маргарита" * ''The Prophet'' ("Пророк") libretto after Pushkin; 1984 Sverdlovsk Opera, conductor Titel. * ''Pugachev'' ("Пугачев") from the poem by Sergei Esenin; 1983, Leningrad, Maly Opera and Ballet Theater * ''Swan Song'' ("Лебединая песня") 1980,

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, after Anton Chekhov. * ''Diary of a Madman'' ("Дневник сумасшедшего") 1980, after

Lu Xun Zhou Shuren (25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936), better known by his pen name Lu Xun (or Lu Sun; ; Wade–Giles: Lu Hsün), was a Chinese writer, essayist, poet, and literary critic. He was a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. W ...

* ''The Idiot'' ("Идиот") 1995, after Dostoevsky

Sources

* Alla Vladimirovna Grigor′yeva. "Kobekin, Vladimir Aleksandrovich", in ''

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''. 1947 births Living people Russian male classical composers Russian opera composers Male opera composers People from Berezniki Saint Petersburg Conservatory alumni Recipients of the USSR State Prize 20th-century classical composers 21st-century classical composers 20th-century Russian male musicians 21st-century Russian male musicians {{russia-composer-stub