Career
Between 1939 and 1945 he published three books of poetry, but only became better known after the death of Stalin. From 1955 his poems began to be published widely in magazines and in book form. His style is of the old school of the 1920s, with many local references to Siberia.Fifty Soviet poets Vladimir Ognev, Dorian Rottenberg 1969 "Leonid Martynov (b. 1905) is a true virtuoso, a skilled master of language with a sensitive understanding of the secret inner associations of words. Martynov's writing ts distinguished for the peculiar harmonizing of sounds he ..."Musical settings
Aleksandr Lokshin set five poems by Martynov in his Ninth Symphony.References
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