Sabre Dance is performed in the final act of what ballet created by a leading Soviet composer?
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Sabre Dance "Sabre Dance" (Armenian: Սուսերով պար, "Suserov par" ; Russian: Танец с саблями, "Tanets s sablyami" ) is a movement in the final act of Aram Khachaturian's ballet "Gayane" (1942), where the dancers display their skill with sabres. It is Khachaturian's best known and most recognizable work. Its middle section is based on an Armenian folk song. According to Tigran Mansurian, it is a synthesis of an Armenian wedding dance tune from Gyumri tied in a saxophone counterpoint "that seems to come straight from America."
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Aram Khachaturian Aram Il'yich Khachaturian ( ; Russian: Ара́м Ильи́ч Хачатуря́н ; Armenian: Արամ Խաչատրյան , "Aram Xačatryan"; ] ; 6 June [O.S. 24 May] 1903 1 May 1978) was a Soviet Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Soviet composers.
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Prince Igor Prince Igor (Russian: Князь Игорь , "Knyaz' Igor'") is an opera in four acts with a prologue, written and composed by Alexander Borodin. The composer adapted the libretto from the Ancient Russian epic "The Lay of Igor's Host", which recounts the campaign of Rus' prince Igor Svyatoslavich against the invading Cuman ("Polovtsian") tribes in 1185. He also incorporated material drawn from two medieval Kievan chronicles. The opera was left unfinished upon the composer's death in 1887 and was edited and completed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov. It was first performed in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1890.
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Vaslav Nijinsky Vaslav Nijinsky (also Vatslav; Russian: Ва́цлав Фоми́ч Нижи́нский ; ] ; Polish: "Wacław Niżyński" ; 12 March 1889/18908 April 1950) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent, cited as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century. He was celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations. He could dance "en pointe", a rare skill among male dancers at the time and was admired for his seemingly gravity-defying leaps.
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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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Symphony No. 3 (Rachmaninoff) Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44 between 1935 and 1936. The Third Symphony is considered a transitional work in Rachmaninoff's output. In melodic outline and rhythm it is his most expressively Russian symphony, particularly in the dance rhythms of the finale. What was groundbreaking in this symphony was its greater economy of utterance compared to its two predecessors. This sparer style, first apparent in the "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini", enhances the emotional power of the work.
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Vladimir Bourmeister Vladimir Bourmeister was a Soviet choreographer best known for his choreography of Swan Lake by Peter Tchaikovsky.
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Iron Foundry Factory: machine-music (Russian: Завод: музыка машин , "Zavod: muzyka mashin "), Op. 19, commonly referred to as the Iron Foundry, is the most well-known work by Soviet composer Alexander Mosolov and a prime example of Soviet futurist music. It was composed between 1926 and 1927 as the first movement of the ballet suite "Stal" ("Steel"). The remaining movements of "Steel", "In Prison," "At the Ball," and "On the Square" have been lost, and "Iron Foundry" is performed today as a standalone orchestral episode.
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Symphony No. 1 (Prokofiev) Sergei Prokofiev began work on his Symphony No. 1 in D major (Op. 25) in 1916, but wrote most of it in 1917, finishing work on September 10. It is written in loose imitation of the style of Haydn (and to a lesser extent, Mozart), and is widely known as the "Classical" Symphony, a name given to it by the composer. It premiered on April 21, 1918 in Petrograd, conducted by Prokofiev himself, and has become one of his most popular and beloved works.
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Vladislav Shoot Vladislav Shoot (Russian: Владислав Алексеевич Шуть , "Vladislav Alekseyevich Shut' "; also spelled Chout, Schut, Sciut, Shut or Szut; born 3 March 1941) is a Russian-British composer of contemporary classical music. Born in Voznesensk, Soviet Union, now Ukraine, he moved to the United Kingdom in the early 1990s, settling on the artists' estate of Dartington Hall.
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Eugene Onegin (opera) Eugene Onegin (Russian: Евгений Онегин , "Yevgény Onégin"), Op. 24, is an opera ("lyrical scenes") in 3 acts (7 scenes), composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto, organised by the composer himself, very closely follows certain passages in Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse, retaining much of his poetry. Tchaikovsky's friend Konstantin Shilovsky contributed M. Triquet's verses in Act 2, Scene 1, while Tchaikovsky himself arranged the text for Lensky's arioso in Act 1, Scene 1, and almost all of Prince Gremin's aria in Act 3, Scene 1.
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Vasili Vainonen Vasili Ivanovich Vainonen, also spelled Vasily (Russian: Васи́лий Ива́нович Вайно́нен ) (1901-1964), was a renowned Soviet choreographer, mainly for the Kirov Ballet, now known as the Mariinsky Ballet, with which he worked from 1930 to 1938.
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Vitaly Chekhover Vitaly Alexandrovich Chekhover (also spelled Tschechower or Czechower, pronounced "chekh a VYAIR") (Russian: Вита́лий Алекса́ндрович Чехове́р ) (December 22, 1908 – February 11, 1965) was a Soviet chess player and chess composer. He was also a pianist.
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Symphonic Dances (Rachmaninoff) The Symphonic Dances, Op. 45, is an orchestral suite in three movements. Completed in 1940, it is Sergei Rachmaninoff's last composition. The work summarizes Rachmaninoff's compositional output.
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Leonid Kubbel Leonid Ivanovich Kubbel (Russian: Леонид Иванович Куббель ) was a Russian composer of chess endgame studies and problems.
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Yuri Shaporin Yuri Alexandrovich Shaporin (Russian: Юрий (Георгий) Александрович Шапорин ) (November 8 [O.S. October 27] 1887 – 9 December 1966) was a Russian-Ukrainian Soviet composer. His first name is sometimes rendered as Iurii or Yury.
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The Stone Flower (Fridlender) The Stone Flower (Russian: Каменный цветок ), is a ballet by the Soviet composer Alexander Fridlender, based on the Russian Ural folk tale "The Stone Flower" by Pavel Bazhov. Iosif Keller wrote the Russian language libretto.
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Le chant du rossignol The opera, the first act written in 1908 and the later two in 1913-14, was the first ever to be written by Stravinsky. The delay between writing the first and the latter acts was caused by his commissions to write "The Firebird", "Petrushka", and "The Rite of Spring" for impresario Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. After this lapse of time, during which Stravinsky established himself as a ballet composer, he was unsure of returning to "Le rossignol", and although he did finish it, he chose to also create a purely symphonic version, "Le chant du rossignol".
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Vladimir Vasiliev (dancer) Vladimir Viktorovich Vasiliev (Russian: Влади́мир Ви́кторович Васи́льев), born 18 April 1940 in Moscow, Russia, is a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer. He was a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and its director from 1995 to 2000.
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Andrei Volkonsky Prince Andrei Mikhaylovich Volkonsky (also "Andrey, André, Mikhailovich, Michailovich, Volkonski, Volkonskiy") (Russian: Андрей Михайлович Волконский ; 14 February 1933 in Geneva, Switzerland – 16 September 2008 in Aix-en-Provence, France) was a Russian composer of classical music and harpsichordist. He was a key figure in Early Music Revival in Russia.
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Natalia Makarova Natalia Romanovna Makarova (Russian: Ната́лия Рома́новна Мака́рова , born 21 November 1940) is a Soviet-Russian-born prima ballerina and choreographer. "The History of Dance", published in 1981, notes that “her performances set standards of artistry and aristocracy of dance which mark her as the finest ballerina of her generation in the West.”
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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.