Vladimir Vladimirovich Shcherbachov (Shcherbachyov, Shcherbachev) (russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Щербачёв; 24 January 1889, in
Warsaw
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– 5 March 1952, in
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
) was a
Soviet
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composer.
He studied with
Maximilian Steinberg
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Though once considered the hope of Russian music, Steinberg is far less well known ...
,
Anatoly Lyadov
Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov (russian: Анато́лий Константи́нович Ля́дов; ) was a Russian composer, teacher, and conductor (music), conductor.
Biography
Lyadov was born in 1855 in Saint Petersburg, St. Petersbur ...
, and
Jāzeps Vītols
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Biography
Vītols, born in Valmiera the son of a sc ...
(Joseph Wihtol) at the
St. Petersburg Conservatory
The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (russian: Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория имени Н. А. Римского-Корсакова) (formerly known as th ...
from 1908 to 1914. While there he also worked as a
pianist
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for
Sergey Diaghilev and taught
theory
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. He served in
World War I
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and then worked in Soviet government music positions. In 1918-1923 he worked as a lecturer and ran the musical department of the
Narkompros The People's Commissariat for Education (or Narkompros; russian: Народный комиссариат просвещения, Наркомпрос, directly translated as the "People's Commissariat for Enlightenment") was the Soviet agency charg ...
. He later became a professor 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 ...
(1923-1931 and 1944-1948) and the
Tbilisi Conservatory. He counted
Boris Arapov,
Vasily Velikanov,
Evgeny Mravinsky,
Valery Zhelobinsky,
Gavriil Popov,
Valerian Bogdanov-Berezovsky,
Pyotr Ryazanov
Pyotr Borisovich Ryazanov (russian: Пётр Борисович Рязанов; – 11 October 1942) was a Russian composer, teacher, and musicologist.
Biography
Born in Narva into a musical family, he entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, ...
, and
Mikhail Chulaki
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He studied under the c ...
among his pupils, as well as various others.
Works
*''Anna Kolossova'', opera (1939, unfinished);
*''Tabachny Kapitan'', operetta (1943);
* Five symphonies:
**No. 1 (1914);
**No. 2 ("Blokovskaya” or "Blok", with soloists and chorus, 1925);
**No. 3 (Symphony-Suite, 1931);
**No. 4 ("Izhorskaya", with soloists and chorus, 1935);
**
No. 5 ("Russkaya", 1948, 2nd version in 1950);
*Nonet for 7 instruments, voice and dancer (1919);
*Suite for string quartet (1939) and other chamber music;
*Two piano sonatas and other piano works;
*Various Romances;
*Film music:
**''
The Thunderstorm
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'' (after
Aleksandr Ostrovsky
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, 1934);
**''
Peter I Peter I may refer to:
Religious hierarchs
* Saint Peter (c. 1 AD – c. 64–88 AD), a.k.a. Simon Peter, Simeon, or Simon, apostle of Jesus
* Pope Peter I of Alexandria (died 311), revered as a saint
* Peter I of Armenia (died 1058), Catholico ...
'' (1937-1939);
**''
Polkovodets Suvorov'' (1941);
*Two Suites:
** ''The Thunderstorm''
**''Peter I'';
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References
* Don Randel Don Michael Randel (born December 9, 1940) is an American musicologist, specializing in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in Spain and France. He is currently the Chair of the Board of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a trustee ...
, ''The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music''. Harvard, 1996, p. 831.
* Genrich Orlov, ''Vladmir Vladimirovich Shcherbachov'' (Leningrad, 1959)
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External links
Vladimir Shcherbachov on IMDb
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1889 births
1952 deaths
20th-century classical composers
Russian male classical composers
Russian opera composers
Male opera composers
Soviet composers
Soviet male composers
20th-century Russian male musicians