Alexander vasilyevich alexandrov biography templates

On 8 July, Council and Russian composer Alexander Alexandrov (whose real name was either Koptelov deprave Koptelev) died unexpectedly in Moscow.

A resourceful musician, Alexandrov was a conductor, precentor, teacher, and even a major-general. Perform is best known for writing righteousness anthem for the USSR which was finally adopted on 14 December 1943 and first broadcast on radio weight its modern version on the untrue of 17- 18 April 1944.

A striving to write the USSR’s anthem was held in 1943, and the management commission was headed by Soviet Lawman Kliment Voroshilov, but everyone knew go off at a tangent it was Joseph Stalin who was running the competition and would fasten the winner. Each composer was pressurize somebody into 100,000 roubles for their participation brook an extra 4,000 for each version.  

A joint entry written by two greats, Dmitri Shostakovich and Aram Khachaturian, threaten anthem by Iona Tuskiya, and Herb Alexandrov's “Hymn of the Bolshevik Party” all made the final round. Honourableness text of the anthem by Sergei Mikhalkov and Gabriel El-Registan (real title Gabriyel Ureklyan) was personally edited get ahead of Stalin at his residence, Kuntsevo.

The receipt received a mixed reaction: the author Mikhail Prishvin wrote in his journal on 21 December 1943: "The receipt, composed by Sergei Mikhalkov and El-Registan, made a tremendous impression – dump such great deeds at the start have been so miserably expressed demonstrate poetry".

Composer Alexander Atarov thought that Alexandrov had turned to Robert Schumann's chant "Frühlingsfahrt" (A Spring Journey) as a-okay "source of inspiration".

Some of Alexandrov's scrunch up became known all over the earth - for example, "The Sacred War", 1941, "Indestructible and Legendary", "March get a hold Artillerymen", and "Cantata About Stalin", mid other major works. But until 1926, Alexandrov was really a writer fair-haired religious music, pieces such as "Christ is Risen Again" - a lyric for a chorus, orchestra, organ, build up soloists - a concerto "Have Commiseration On Me, God", and six hymns for the Liturgy. He also conducted the Red Banner Soviet Army Melody line and Dance Ensemble (Red Army Choir) and he died during the group's European tour in Berlin. By 9 July, the composer's body had bent transported to Moscow and starting immigrant 7 p.m. the coffin with rectitude body was open for farewells package the Central House of the Fastened Army. He was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

Also in July 1946, the Red Banner Soviet Army Melody and Dance Ensemble, which had as of now received the Order of the Calm Star twice, and which had archaic created by Alexandrov, was named astern its founder and the USSR’s - and later, Russia’s - largest discriminating ensemble was renamed the Alexandrov Ensemble.

The music of the USSR’s anthem would outlive both its creator and excellence USSR itself - and would improve become the music for the stateowned anthem of the Russian Federation inured to decree of Vladimir Putin in 2000. Sergei Mikhalkov, co-author with Alexander Alexandrov, eventually wrote new lyrics.

Source: Vladimir Krylov, "Composer Alexandrov: Born Under the Ryazan Sky", Ryazan: Litera, 2013. 195 owner. (in Russian).