Soviet composer
The grave of Vladimir Shcherbachov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Shcherbachov (Shcherbachyov, Shcherbachev ) (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Щербачёв ; 24 January 1889, in Warsaw – 5 March 1952, in Leningrad ) was a Soviet composer.
He studied with Maximilian Steinberg , Anatoly Lyadov , and Jāzeps Vītols (Joseph Wihtol) at the St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1908 to 1914. While there he also worked as a pianist for Sergey Diaghilev and taught theory . He served in World War I and then worked in Soviet government music positions. In 1918-1923 he worked as a lecturer and ran the musical department of the Narkompros . He later became a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory (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 , and Mikhail Chulaki among his pupils, as well as various others.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
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:
Two Suites:
References
Don Randel , The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music . Harvard, 1996, p. 831.
Genrich Orlov, Vladmir Vladimirovich Shcherbachov (Leningrad, 1959)
Haas, David (1992). "Boris Asafyev and Soviet Symphonic Theory". The Musical Quarterly . 76 (3): 410–432. doi :10.1093/mq/76.3.410 .
External links
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