Are Sergei Prokofiev and Modest Mussorgsky both Soviet composers?
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Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev ( ; Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев , "Sergej Sergejevič Prokofjev" ; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet composer, pianist and conductor. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous musical genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard works as the March from "The Love for Three Oranges," the suite "Lieutenant Kijé", the ballet "Romeo and Juliet" – from which "Dance of the Knights" is taken – and "Peter and the Wolf." Of the established forms and genres in which he worked, he created – excluding juvenilia – seven completed operas, seven symphonies, eight ballets, five piano concertos, two violin concertos, a cello concerto, a Symphony-Concerto for cello and orchestra, and nine completed piano sonatas.
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Modest Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (Russian: Моде́ст Петро́вич Му́соргский ; ] ; 21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839 – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881 ) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five". He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.
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Lev Naumov Lev Nikolayevich Naumov (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Нау́мов ; February 12, 1925, Rostov – August 21, 2005, Moscow) was a Russian classical pianist, composer and educator. Received a title of People's Artist of Russia and was nicknamed the "Godfather of the Russian piano school".
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Nikolai Zverev Nikolai Sergeyevich Zverev (Russian: Николай Серге́евич Зве́рев , sometimes transliterated Nikolai Zveref; 183212 October [O.S. 30 September] 1893 ) was a Russian pianist and teacher known for his pupils Alexander Siloti, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin, Konstantin Igumnov, Alexander Goldenweiser, and others.
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Vladimir Fontikov Vladimir Karnikovich Fontikov (May 17, 1941 – October 12, 1987) was a Soviet opera singer best known for his interpretation of Modest Mussorgsky's "Boris Gudunov".
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Mussorgskij (crater) Mussorgskij is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 125 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979. Mussorgskij is named for the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky, who lived from 1839 to 1881.
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Nikolai Sidelnikov Nikolai Nikolayevich Sidelnikov (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Сиде́льников ; June 5, 1930, Tver – June 20, 1992) was a Russian Soviet composer.
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Alexander Kasyanov Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kasyanov (Александр Александрович Касьянов; 17 August 1891 - Gorki 13 February 1982) was a Soviet Russian composer, conductor, pianist and professor. He received the Order of Lenin in 1967, Order of the October Revolution 1981, and People's Artist of the USSR 1971.
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Sigizmund Kats Sigizmund Abramovich Katz (Russian: Сигизмунд Абрамович Кац ; April 4, 1908 – June 17, 1984), was a Soviet composer who specialized in writing popular songs. One of the founding fathers of the genre of the Soviet "mass song", Katz became famous in the 1940s and 1950s. His songs ranged from lyrical serenades and ballads to marches and quasi-Straussian waltzes. Sigizmund Katz' professional reputation now rests primarily on his war-time song "And the Briansk Forest Rustled Sternly" (Шумел сурово Брянский лес…), with lyrics by Anatoly Sofronov, which is dedicated to the struggles of Soviet partisans against Nazi invaders, and which earned him the Stalin Prize (1950).
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Anatoly Dneprov (singer) Anatoly Semyonovich Dneprov (Gross) (Ukrainian: Анатолій Семенович Днепров , Russian: Анатолий Семёнович Днепров ) was a Soviet and Russian singer, musician, composer and lyricist.
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Violin Sonata No. 1 (Prokofiev) Sergei Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op 80, written between 1938 and 1946 (completed two years after Violin Sonata No. 2), is one of the darkest and most brooding of the composer's works.
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Isaac Schwartz Isaac Iosifovich Schwartz (Russian: Исаак Иосифович Шварц ; 13 May 1923 – 27 December 2009), also known as Isaak Shvarts, was a Soviet composer.
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Sergei Slonimsky Sergei Mikhailovich Slonimsky (Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович Слони́мский , born August 12, 1932, Leningrad) is a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist and musicologist.
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Night on Bald Mountain Night on Bald Mountain (Russian: Ночь на лысой горе, "Noch′ na lysoy gore" ), also known as Night on the Bare Mountain, is a series of compositions by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). Inspired by Russian literary works and legend, Mussorgsky composed a "musical picture", "St. John's Eve on Bald Mountain" (Russian: Иванова ночь на лысой горе, "Ivanova noch′ na lysoy gore" ) on the theme of a witches' sabbath occurring on St. John's Eve, which he completed on that very night, 23 June 1867. Together with Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov's "Sadko" (1867), it is one of the first tone poems by a Russian composer.
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The Song of the Flea ""The Song of the Flea"" (Russian: "Песня о блохе" ) is a song with piano accompaniment, composed by Modest Mussorgsky in 1879. The lyrics are from the Russian translation of Goethe's Faust.
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Fyodor Druzhinin Fyodor Serafimovich Druzhinin, also Fedor, (Russian: Фёдор Серафимович Дружинин ; 6 April 1932 in Moscow – 1 July 2007) was a Soviet violist, composer and music teacher.
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Youri Egorov Youri Aleksandrovich Egorov (Russian: Юрий Александрович Егоров ; 28 May 1954 – 16 April 1988) was a Soviet classical pianist.
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Symphony No. 5 (Prokofiev) Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major (Op. 100) in Soviet Russia in one month in the summer of 1944.
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Oleg Karavaychuk Oleg Nikolayevich Karavaichuk (Russian: Оле́г Никола́евич Каравайчу́к ; 28 December 1927 – 13 June 2016) was a Soviet and Russian composer, author of music for many films and theater performances.
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Mikhail Kovalyov Colonel-General Mikhail Prokofievich Kovalyov (Russian: Михаил Прокофьевич Ковалёв ) (7 July [O.S. 26 June] 1897 – 31 August 1967) was a Soviet military officer.
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German Galynin German Germanovich Galynin (Russian: Герман Германович Галынин , "German Germanovich Galynin"; March 30, 1922, Tula, Russia – June 18, 1966, Moscow, Russia, USSR) was a Soviet (Russian) composer, student, and continuer of the Shostakovich and Myaskovsky line in Soviet classic music.
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Le pas d'acier (Prokofiev) Le pas d'acier ("The Steel Step" or "The Leap of Steel"; Russian: Стальной скок ) is a 1926 ballet in two scenes (Op. 41) containing 11 dances composed by Sergei Prokofiev. Prokofiev also created an orchestral 4 movement suite from the ballet (Op. 41b).