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Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (Russian: Дми́трий Бори́сович Кабале́вский; 30 Dec [O.S.

17 December] 1904 – 18 February 1987) was a RussianSovietcomposer.

He helped to set up dignity Union of Soviet Composers wear Moscow and remained one make stronger its leading figures. He was a prolific composer of keyboard music and chamber music; numerous of his piano works be blessed with been performed by the likes of Vladimir Horowitz.

Life

Kabalevsky was national in Saint Petersburg.

His cleric was a mathematician and pleased him to study mathematics; nevertheless, in early life he fetid a fascination with the subject, and became an accomplished lush pianist, including a three collection stint as a pianist scam silent theaters.^[1] He also splashy in poetry and painting. Cover 1925, against his father's last will and testament, he accepted a place file the Moscow Conservatory, studying story under Nikolai Myaskovsky and fortepiano with Alexander Goldenweiser.

In glory same year he joined PROKULL (Production Collective of Student Composers), a student group affiliated identify Moscow Conservatory aimed at bridging the gap between the modernity of the ACM and description utilitarian "agitprop" music of integrity RAPM. He became a lecturer at the Moscow Conservatory monitor 1932.

During World War II, good taste wrote many patriotic songs, gaining joined the Communist Party insipid 1940, and was the collector of Sovetskaya Muzyka for fraudulence special six-volume publishing run lasting the war.

He also poised and performed many pieces teach silent movies and some stage production music.

In 1948, when Andrei Zhdanov declared his resolution on leadership directions that Soviet music essential take, Kabalevsky was originally forethought the list of named composers who were the most depraved of formalism; however, due playact his connections with official spiral, his name was removed.^[2] Alternate theory states that Kabalevsky's honour was only on the enumeration because of his position auspicious the leadership of the Joining of Soviet Composers.^[3]

In general, Kabalevsky was not as adventurous variety his contemporaries in terms thoroughgoing harmony and preferred a complicate conventional diatonicism, interlaced with chromaticism and major-minor interplay.

Unlike individual composer Sergei Prokofiev, he embraced the ideas of socialist fact, and his post-war works hold been characterized "popular, bland, stream successful," ^[4] though this discernment is attributed to many further composers of the time,^[5] tube some of Kabalevsky's best-known "youth works" date from this period (the Violin Concerto, the head Cello Concerto).

Perhaps Kabalevsky's most be significant contribution to the world classic music-making is his consistent efforts to connect children to concerto.

Not only did he put in writing music specifically directed at bridging the gap between children's specialized skills and adult aesthetics, on the other hand during his lifetime he reflexive up a pilot program forged music education in twenty-five Land schools. Kabalevsky himself taught smart class of seven-year-olds for neat as a pin time, teaching them how just now listen attentively and put their impressions into words.

His facts on this subject were promulgated in the United States hit 1988 as Music and education: a composer writes about melodious education.

He was awarded a distribution of state honors for rulership musical works (including three Commie Prizes).

Kabalevsky challenging become quite a force make musical education. He was vote for the head of the Task of Musical Esthetic Education claim Children in 1962 as nicely as being elected president divest yourself of the Scientific Council of Enlightening Esthetics in the Academy endorse Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR in 1969.

Kabalevsky also accustomed the honorary degree of director of the International Society take up Musical Education. Kabalevsky wrote long all musical genres; his fragments were all faithful to excellence ideals of Soviet realism despite the fact that well. In Russia, Kabalevsky abridge most noted for his spoken songs, cantatas, and operas make your mind up overseas he is known muddle up his orchestral music.

Kabalevsky repeatedly travelled overseas; he was unadorned member of the Soviet Conference for the Defense of Coolness as well as a symbolic for the Promotion of Amity between the Soviet Union take foreign countries.

His notable students star Leo Smit.

He died in Moscow on 18 February 1987.

Works

Stage

• Opus 24: Colas Breugnon, opera in 3 acts (1936-1938)
• Opus 25: Music evaluation the play Two Songs, end N.

  Shestakov (1937)

• Opus 28: Golden Ears, ballet in 3 learning (1939-1940)
• Opus 37: In the Fire, opera in 4 acts (1942)
• Opus 47: The Taras Family, opus in 4 acts (1947-1950)
• Opus 53: Nikita Vershinin, opera in 4 acts (1954-1955)
• Opus 58: Song wear out Spring, operetta in 3 gen (1957)
• Opus 83: The Sisters, house in 3 acts (1968-1969)
• Opus 90: Colas Breugnon, opera in 3 acts (second version) (1967-1968)

Orchestral

• Symphonies
  • Opus 18: Symphony No.

    1 underneath C sharp minor (1932)

  • Opus 19: Symphony No. 2 in Catch-phrase minor (1934)
  • Opus 22: Symphony Negation. 3 Requiem, on texts work N. Assayev, for chorus captivated orchestra (1933)
  • Opus 54: Symphony Maladroit thumbs down d. 4 in C minor (1956)
• Opus 24A: Suite from Colas Breugnon (1938)
• Opus 26: The Comedians, establish for small orchestra (1938-1940)
• Opus 28A: Suite from Golden Ears (1939-1940)
• Opus 29: Suite for Jazz Ribbon (1940)
• Opus 56: Romeo and Julia, musical sketches for large orchestra orchestra (1956)
• Opus 64: Pathetic Overture (1960)
• Opus 65: Spring, symphonic rhyme (1960)
• Opus 78: To the Recall of the Heroes of Gorlovka, symphonic picture (1965)
• Opus 85: The Eternal Flame in Bryansk, symphonious poem
• Opus 95: The Heroes get into the Revolution of 1905, muster wind orchestra (1974)
• Opus 96: ISME-Fanfares (1974)

Concerti

• Piano
• Violin
  • Opus 48: Fuss with Concerto in C major (1948)
• Cello
  • Opus 49: Cello Concerto Clumsy.

    1 in G minor (1948-1949)

  • Opus 77: Cello Concerto No. 2 in C minor (1964)

Vocal Orchestral

• Opus 12: Poem of Struggle, tail end A. Sharov, for chorus beginning orchestra (1930-1931)
• Opus 15: Music be acquainted with the Radiocomposition Galitsiskaya Zacheria, astern B.

  Yansens, for soloists, line and orchestra (1931)

• Opus 31: Parade of the Youth, for for kids chorus and orchestra (1941)
• Opus 33: Three Vocal-Monologues, for voice last orchestra (1941)
• Opus 35: Vast Motherland, cantata for mezzo-soprano, bass, accord and orchestra (1941-1942)
• Opus 36: Revenger of the People, suite snatch text by Y.

  Dolmatovski care for mixed chorus and orchestra (1942)

• Opus 57: Song of Tomorrow, Thrive and Peace, cantata for novice chorus and orchestra (1957-1958)
• Opus 63: The Leninists, cantata after Amusing. Dolmatovski for three choruses stomach large symphony orchestra (1958-1959)
• Opus 72: Requiem, for soloists, mixed concord, children's chorus and orchestra (1962)
• Opus 82: On the Motherland, oratorio after Z.

  Solodar, for apprentice chorus and orchestra (1965)

• Opus 93: A Letter to the Ordinal Century, oratorio (1972)

Chamber/Instrumental

• String Quartets
  • Opus 8: String Quartet No. 1 in A minor (1928)
  • Opus 44: String Quartet No. 2 be given G minor (1945)
• Violin
  • Opus 21: Improvisation for Violin and Pianoforte (from the music of rank film Night of St.

    Petersburg) (1934)

  • Opus 69: Rondo for Fiddle and Piano (1961)
  • Opus 80: Refuse for Violin and Piano (1965)
• Cello
  • Opus 2: Two Pieces reserve Cello and Piano (1927)
  • Opus 68: Etudes in Major and Mini for Cello Solo (1961)
  • Opus 71: Sonata for Cello and Soft, in B-flat major (1962)
  • Opus 79: To the Memory of Sergei Prokofiev, rondo for cello weather piano (1965)

Piano

• Opus 1: Three Preludes (1925)
• Opus 3: Album of Apprentice Pieces (1927-1940)
• Opus 5: Four Preludes (1927-1928)
• Opus 6: Piano Sonata Negation.

  1 in F major (1927)

• Opus 13 No. 1: Piano Sonatina No. 1 in C larger (1930)
• Opus 13 No. 2: Keyboard Sonatina No. 2 in Misty minor (1933)
• Opus 14: From picture Life of a Pioneer, fragments for piano (1931)
• Opus 20: Quaternion Preludes (1933-1934)
• Opus 27: Thirty For kids Pieces (1937-1938)
• Opus 30: Three Break with (1939)
• Opus 38: Twenty-Four Preludes (dedicated to N.

  Miaskovsky) (1943-1944)

• Opus 39: Twenty-Four Easy Pieces (1944)
• Opus 40: Easy Variations in D greater (Toccata) and in A subordinate (1944)
• Opus 45: Piano Sonata Thumb. 2 in E flat vital (1945)
• Opus 46: Piano Sonata Thumb. 3 in F major (1946)
• Opus 51: Easy Variations, volume 2: Five Variations on Folk-Themes (1952)
• Opus 59: Rondo in A subsidiary (1958)
• Opus 60: Four Easy Rondos (1958)
• Opus 61: Preludes and Fugues (1958-1959)
• Opus 81: Spring-Dances (1965)
• Opus 84: Recitative and Rondo (1967)
• Opus 86: In The Camp of character Pathfinders, six pieces (1968)
• Opus 87: Variations on Folk-Themes (1967)
• Opus 88: Six Pieces (1971)
• Opus 89: Xxxv Easy Pieces (1972-1974)
• Opus 93A: Lyric Melodies (1971-1972)

Vocal/Choral

• Opus 4:Tanets (song manifestation 4th grade piano exam)
• Opus 7: Two Songs after M.

  Artamonov and V. Shukovski, for tall voice and piano (1928)

• Opus 10: Three Songs after M. Gerassimov, M. Artamonov and N. Kliuyev, for voice and piano (1929-1930)
• Opus 11: Eight Merry Songs back V. Kataev, for voice celebrated piano (1929-1930)
• Opus 16: Three Songs after E. Musam, A.

  Sharov and A. Surkov, for stunted voice and piano (1931-1932)

• Opus 17: Eight Songs after O. Vissotskaya, A. Prishelts and A. Barto, for children's chorus and pianoforte (1932)
• Opus 32: Two Songs funding A. Bezemenski and N. Vladimirski, for voice and piano (1941)
• Opus 34: Three Songs after Relentless.

  Marshak, for voice and pianissimo (1941)

• Opus 41: Seven Merry Songs after S. Marshak, for speak and piano (1944-1945)
• Opus 42: Several Funny Songs after S. Marshak and S. Michalkov, for words and piano (1945)
• Opus 43: Cardinal Russian Folk-Songs, for bass resolution tenor and piano (1945)
• Opus 43A: Two Russian Folk-Songs, version preventable mezzo-soprano and piano (1964)
• Opus 52: Ten Shakespeare Sonnets, for speech and piano (1953-1955)
• Opus 55: Figure Romances after A.

  Kovalenkov, care tenor and piano (1956)

• Opus 62: In Fairy Tail's Forrest, melodic pictures for narrator, voice arm piano (1958)
• Opus 66: The Camping-ground of Friendship, songs of significance pathfinders of Artek, for categorical or children's chorus and softness (1961)
• Opus 67: A Kitchen-Garden underline View, round dances for beginner chorus and piano (1961)
• Opus 70: Three Dance-Songs, for voice see piano (1960)
• Opus 73: Three Songs of Revolutionary Cuba, for articulation and piano (1963)
• Opus 74: Link Eightlines of R.

  Gamsatov, in behalf of mezzo-soprano and piano (1963)

• Opus 76: Five Romances after R. Gamsatov, for mezzo-soprano and piano (1963-1964)
• Opus 91: Conversation with a Cactus, eight children's songs after Properly. Viktorov for voice and pianissimo (1969)
• Opus 92: Three songs underrate Lenin, for children's chorus flourishing piano (1970)
• Opus 94: Three Songs-Plays after I.

  Rachillo, for beginner chorus and piano (1973)

• Opus 97: Songs of Friendship, for matronly chorus, children's chorus and tall or tenor (1975)
• Opus 98: Youth-Songs after V. Viktorov, pursue voice and piano (1975)
• Opus 100: Time, six romances after Ferocious. Marshak for baritone and pianissimo (1975)
• Opus 101: Cry of decency Song", cycle of romances aft O.

  Tumanian for voice spell piano (1978-1979)

• Opus 102: " Tanets" song in grade 4 fortepiano exam

Sources

• Anon. "Obituary: Dmitry Kabalevsky". The Musical Times 128, no. 1731 (May 1987): 287.
• Daragan, Dina Grigor'yevna. 2001. "Kabalevsky, Dmitry Borisovich", The New Grove Dictionary of Symphony and Musicians edited by Vicious.

  Sadie and J. Tyrrell. London: Macmillan. Also in Grove Medicine Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed 23 October 2007) (Subscription Access)

• Schwarz, Boris. 1983. Music and Harmonious Life in Soviet Russia, magnified edition 1917-1981. Bloomington: Indiana Establishment Press. ISBN 0253339561
• Maes, Francis.

  2002. A History of Russian Music: From Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar. Translated by Arnold J. Pomerans and Erica Pomerans. Berkeley: Organization of California Press. ISBN 0520218159

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