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Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky
Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1904. Though his family intended that he go into mathematics or economics, Dmitri Kabalevsky showed early artistic talent, both in painting and music. He continued to paint all his life, but it was music that became his profession.
Kabalevsky was a Soviet composer, whose music, often makes use of Russian folk melodies, and is heavily nationalistic and politically oriented. He was educated at the Scriabin Music School and the Moscow Conservatory. Kabalevsky was a pupil of Myaskocsky at the Moscow Conservatory, where he himself taught from 1932. He wrote many operas and operattas that enjoyed success in Russia. Kabalevsky had a straight forward lyrical style and a fluent technique. This enabled him to produce the kind of music that the Soviet authority preferred. They considered that concert music was intended for the broadest possible audience and insisted that music should be tuneful (often using folk tunes) and end in a major key.
Kabalevsky won the Stalin Prize three times. It was the highest award for a Soviet composer during the Stalin era. He was also awarded the Order of Lenin in 1965. He is considered one of the most accessible composers of the 20th century soviet era, well-known for his opera, The Craftsman of Clemacy, in 1937. It was based on the novel, Colas Breugnon, by Romain Rolland. Also, The Comedians Suite, and Romeo and Juliet are much admired. Kabalevsky's Symphony no. 3 is subtitled, Requiem for Lenin, and his opera, Before Moscow, written in 1942 for the 25th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, celebrates the defense of the capital in World War II. Kabalevsky also composed a chorale, Our Great Fatherland, in 1942. His three Piano Concertos and the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, written in 1948, was also popular. He wrote many other musical scores for several Soviet films, as well as, a series of piano pieces for children.
The year 1948 was particular crucial in the history of Soviet music, because the country's greatest composers were publicly attacked for music that showed signs of "bourgeois formalism." In that very year, Kabalevsky produced his sunny and tuneful Violin Concerto, the first of three concertos (the others were for cello and piano) written between 1948 and 1952 for young virtuosi. Its directness and lively charm have made it a repertory work ever since. Then on February 16, 1987, Kabalevsky died in Moscow.
'Εργα
Opus 1 Three Preludes for piano (1925)
Opus 2 Two Pieces for cello and piano (1927)
Opus 3 Album of Children's Pieces for piano (1927-1940)
Opus 4 Three Poems after A. Blok for singer and piano (1927)
Opus 5 Four Preludes for piano (1927-1928)
Opus 6 Piano Sonata No. 1 in F major (1927)
Opus 7 Two Songs after M. Artamonov and V. Shukovski for high voice and piano (1928)
Opus 8 String Quartet No. 1 in A minor (1928)
Opus 9 Piano Concerto No. 1 in A minor (1928)
Opus 10 Three Songs after M. Gerassimov, M. Artamonov and N. Kliuyev for voice and piano (1929-1930)
Opus 11 Eight Merry Songs after V. Kataev for voice and piano (1929-1930)
Opus 12 Poem of Struggle after A. Sharov for chorus and orchestra (1930-1931)
Opus 13 No. 1 Piano Sonatina No. 1 in C major (1930)
Opus 13 No. 2 Piano Sonatina No. 2 in G minor (1933)
Opus 14 From the Life of a Pioneer, pieces for piano (1931)
Opus 15 Music to the Radiocomposition "Galitsiskaya Zacheria" after B. Yansens for solists, chorus and orchestra (1931)
Opus 16 Three Songs after E. Musam, A. Sharov and A. Surkov for low voice and piano (1931-1932)
Opus 17 Eight Songs after O. Vissotskaya, A. Prishelts ans A. Barto for children's chorus and piano (1932)
Opus 18 Symphony No. 1 in C sharp minor (1932)
Opus 19 Symphony No. 2 in C minor (1934)
Opus 20 Four Preludes for piano (1933-1934)
Opus 21 Improvisation for violin and piano (from the music of the film "Night of St. Petersburg" (1934)
Opus 22 Symphony No. 3 "Requiem" on text of N. Assayev for chorus and orchestra (1933)
Opus 23 Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor (1935)
Opus 24 "Colas Breugnon", opera in 3 acts (1936-1938)
Opus 24A Suite from the opera "Colas Breugnon" for orchestra (1938)
Opus 25 Music to the play "Two Songs" after N. Shestakov (1937)
Opus 26 "The Comedians", suite for small orchestra (1938-1940)
Opus 27 Thirty Children's Pieces for piano (1937-1938)
Opus 28 "Golden Ears", ballet in 3 acts (1939-1940)
Opus 28A Suite from the ballet "Golden Ears" for orchestra (1939-1940)
Opus 29 Suite for jazz orchestra (1940)
Opus 30 Three Pieces for piano (1939)
Opus 31 "Parade of the Youth" for children's chorus and orchestra (1941)
Opus 32 Two Songs after A. Bezemenski and N. Vladimirski for voice and piano (1941)
Opus 33 Three Vocal-Monologues for voice and orchestra (1941)
Opus 34 Three Songs after S. Marshak for voice and piano (1941)
Opus 35 "Vast Motherland", cantata for mezzo-soprano, bass, chorus and orchestra (1941-1942)
Opus 36 "Revenger of the People", suite on text by Y. Dolmatovski for mixed chorus and orchestra (1942)
Opus 37 "In the Fire", opera in 4 acts (1942)
Opus 38 Twenty-Four Preludes for piano (decicated to N. Miaskovsky) (1943-1944)
Opus 39 Twenty-Four Easy Pieces for piano (1944)
Opus 40 Easy Variations for piano in D major ("Toccata") and in A minor (1944)
Opus 41 Seven Merry Songs after S. Marshak for voice and piano (1944-1945)
Opus 42 Four Funny Songs after S. Marshak and S. Michalkov for voice and piano (1945)
Opus 43 Two Russian Folk-Songs for bass or tenor and piano (1945)
Opus 43A Two Russian Folk-Songs, version for mezzo-soprano and piano (1964)
Opus 44 String Quartet No. 2 in G minor (1945)
Opus 45 Piano Sonata No. 2 in E flat major (1945)
Opus 46 Piano Sonata No. 3 in F major (1946)
Opus 47 "The Taras Family", opera in 4 acts (1947-1950)
Opus 48 Violin Concerto in C major (1948)
Opus 49 Cello Concerto No. 1 in G minor (1948-1949)
Opus 50 Piano Concerto No. 3 in D major (1952)
Opus 51 Easy Variations for piano, volume 2| Five Variations on Folk-Themes (1952)
Opus 52 Ten Shakespeare Sonnets for voice and piano (1953-1955)
Opus 53 "Nikita Vershinin", opera in 4 acts (1954-1955)
Opus 54 Symphony No. 4 in C minor (1956)
Opus 55 Two Romances after A. Kovalenkov for tenor and piano (1956)
Opus 56 "Romeo and Julia", musical sketches for large symphony orchestra (1956)
Opus 57 "Song of Tomorrow, Spring and Peace", cantata for children's chorus and orchestra (1957-1958)
Opus 58 "Song of Spring", operetta in 3 acts (1957)
Opus 59 Rondo for piano in A minor (1958)
Opus 60 Four Easy Rondos for piano (1958)
Opus 61 Preludes and Fugues for piano (1958-1959)
Opus 62 "In Fairy Tail's Forrest", musical pictures for narrator, voice and piano (1958)
Opus 63 "The Leninists", cantata after Y. Dolmatovski for three choruses and large symphony orchestra (1958-1959)
Opus 64 Pathetic Overture for orchestra (1960)
Opus 65 "Spring", symphonic poem for orchestra (1960)
Opus 66 "The Camp of Friendship", songs of the pathfinders of Artek for voice or children's chorus and piano (1961)
Opus 67 "A Kitchen-Garden on View", round dances for children's chorus and piano (1961)
Opus 68 Etudes in Major and Minor for cello solo (1961)
Opus 69 Rondo for violin and piano (1961)
Opus 70 Three Dance-Songs for voice and piano (1960)
Opus 71 Sonata for cello and piano in B major (1962)
Opus 72 Requiem for soloists, mixed chorus, children's chorus and orchestra (1962)
Opus 73 Three Songs of Revolutionary Cuba for voice and piano (1963)
Opus 74 Three Eightlines of R. Gamsatov for mezzo-soprano and piano (1963)
Opus 75 Rhapsody on a Theme of the Song "Schoolyears" for piano and orchestra (1963)
Opus 76 Five Romances after R. Gamsatov for mezzo-soprano and piano (1963-1964)
Opus 77 Cello Concerto No. 2 in C major (1964)
Opus 78 To the Memory of the Heroes of Gorlovka, symphonic picture in E sharp minor (1965)
Opus 79 To the Memory of Sergei Prokofiev, rondo for cello and piano (1965)
Opus 80 Pieces for violin and piano (1965)
Opus 81 "Spring-Dances" for piano (1965)
Opus 82 "On the Motherland", cantata after Z. Solodar for children's chorus and orchestra (1965)
Opus 83 "The Sisters", opera in 3 acts (1968-1969)
Opus 84 Recitative and Rondo for piano (1967)
Opus 85 "The Eternal Flame in Bryansk", symphonic poem
Opus 86 "In The Camp of the Pathfinders", six pieces for piano (1968)
Opus 87 Variations on Folk-Themes for piano (1967)
Opus 88 Six Pieces for piano (1971)
Opus 89 Thirty-Five Easy Pieces for piano (1972-1974)
Opus 90 "Colas Breugnon", opera in 3 acts (second version) (1967-1968)
Opus 91 "Conversation with a Cactus", eight children's songs after V. Viktorov for voice and piano (1969)
Opus 92 Three songs about Lenin for children's chorus and piano (1970)
Opus 93 "A Letter to the 30th Century", oratorio (1972)
Opus 93A "Lyric Melodies" for piano (1971-1972)
Opus 94 "Three Songs-Plays" after I. Rachillo for children's chorus and piano (1973)
Opus 95 "The Heroes of the Revolution of 1905" for wind orchestra (1974)
Opus 96 "ISME-Fanfares" for symphony orchestra (1974)
Opus 97 "Songs of Friendship" for female chorus, children's chorus and soprano or tenor (1975)
Opus 98 "Two Youth-Songs" after V. Viktorov for voice and piano (1975)
Opus 99 Piano Concerto No. 4 "Prague Concerto" (1975)
Opus 100 "Time", six romances after S. Marshak for baritone and piano (1975)
Opus 101 "Cry of the Song", cycle of romances after O. Tumanian for voice and piano (1978-1979)
Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1904. Though his family intended that he go into mathematics or economics, Dmitri Kabalevsky showed early artistic talent, both in painting and music. He continued to paint all his life, but it was music that became his profession.
Kabalevsky was a Soviet composer, whose music, often makes use of Russian folk melodies, and is heavily nationalistic and politically oriented. He was educated at the Scriabin Music School and the Moscow Conservatory. Kabalevsky was a pupil of Myaskocsky at the Moscow Conservatory, where he himself taught from 1932. He wrote many operas and operattas that enjoyed success in Russia. Kabalevsky had a straight forward lyrical style and a fluent technique. This enabled him to produce the kind of music that the Soviet authority preferred. They considered that concert music was intended for the broadest possible audience and insisted that music should be tuneful (often using folk tunes) and end in a major key.
Kabalevsky won the Stalin Prize three times. It was the highest award for a Soviet composer during the Stalin era. He was also awarded the Order of Lenin in 1965. He is considered one of the most accessible composers of the 20th century soviet era, well-known for his opera, The Craftsman of Clemacy, in 1937. It was based on the novel, Colas Breugnon, by Romain Rolland. Also, The Comedians Suite, and Romeo and Juliet are much admired. Kabalevsky's Symphony no. 3 is subtitled, Requiem for Lenin, and his opera, Before Moscow, written in 1942 for the 25th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, celebrates the defense of the capital in World War II. Kabalevsky also composed a chorale, Our Great Fatherland, in 1942. His three Piano Concertos and the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, written in 1948, was also popular. He wrote many other musical scores for several Soviet films, as well as, a series of piano pieces for children.
The year 1948 was particular crucial in the history of Soviet music, because the country's greatest composers were publicly attacked for music that showed signs of "bourgeois formalism." In that very year, Kabalevsky produced his sunny and tuneful Violin Concerto, the first of three concertos (the others were for cello and piano) written between 1948 and 1952 for young virtuosi. Its directness and lively charm have made it a repertory work ever since. Then on February 16, 1987, Kabalevsky died in Moscow.
'Εργα
Opus 1 Three Preludes for piano (1925)
Opus 2 Two Pieces for cello and piano (1927)
Opus 3 Album of Children's Pieces for piano (1927-1940)
Opus 4 Three Poems after A. Blok for singer and piano (1927)
Opus 5 Four Preludes for piano (1927-1928)
Opus 6 Piano Sonata No. 1 in F major (1927)
Opus 7 Two Songs after M. Artamonov and V. Shukovski for high voice and piano (1928)
Opus 8 String Quartet No. 1 in A minor (1928)
Opus 9 Piano Concerto No. 1 in A minor (1928)
Opus 10 Three Songs after M. Gerassimov, M. Artamonov and N. Kliuyev for voice and piano (1929-1930)
Opus 11 Eight Merry Songs after V. Kataev for voice and piano (1929-1930)
Opus 12 Poem of Struggle after A. Sharov for chorus and orchestra (1930-1931)
Opus 13 No. 1 Piano Sonatina No. 1 in C major (1930)
Opus 13 No. 2 Piano Sonatina No. 2 in G minor (1933)
Opus 14 From the Life of a Pioneer, pieces for piano (1931)
Opus 15 Music to the Radiocomposition "Galitsiskaya Zacheria" after B. Yansens for solists, chorus and orchestra (1931)
Opus 16 Three Songs after E. Musam, A. Sharov and A. Surkov for low voice and piano (1931-1932)
Opus 17 Eight Songs after O. Vissotskaya, A. Prishelts ans A. Barto for children's chorus and piano (1932)
Opus 18 Symphony No. 1 in C sharp minor (1932)
Opus 19 Symphony No. 2 in C minor (1934)
Opus 20 Four Preludes for piano (1933-1934)
Opus 21 Improvisation for violin and piano (from the music of the film "Night of St. Petersburg" (1934)
Opus 22 Symphony No. 3 "Requiem" on text of N. Assayev for chorus and orchestra (1933)
Opus 23 Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor (1935)
Opus 24 "Colas Breugnon", opera in 3 acts (1936-1938)
Opus 24A Suite from the opera "Colas Breugnon" for orchestra (1938)
Opus 25 Music to the play "Two Songs" after N. Shestakov (1937)
Opus 26 "The Comedians", suite for small orchestra (1938-1940)
Opus 27 Thirty Children's Pieces for piano (1937-1938)
Opus 28 "Golden Ears", ballet in 3 acts (1939-1940)
Opus 28A Suite from the ballet "Golden Ears" for orchestra (1939-1940)
Opus 29 Suite for jazz orchestra (1940)
Opus 30 Three Pieces for piano (1939)
Opus 31 "Parade of the Youth" for children's chorus and orchestra (1941)
Opus 32 Two Songs after A. Bezemenski and N. Vladimirski for voice and piano (1941)
Opus 33 Three Vocal-Monologues for voice and orchestra (1941)
Opus 34 Three Songs after S. Marshak for voice and piano (1941)
Opus 35 "Vast Motherland", cantata for mezzo-soprano, bass, chorus and orchestra (1941-1942)
Opus 36 "Revenger of the People", suite on text by Y. Dolmatovski for mixed chorus and orchestra (1942)
Opus 37 "In the Fire", opera in 4 acts (1942)
Opus 38 Twenty-Four Preludes for piano (decicated to N. Miaskovsky) (1943-1944)
Opus 39 Twenty-Four Easy Pieces for piano (1944)
Opus 40 Easy Variations for piano in D major ("Toccata") and in A minor (1944)
Opus 41 Seven Merry Songs after S. Marshak for voice and piano (1944-1945)
Opus 42 Four Funny Songs after S. Marshak and S. Michalkov for voice and piano (1945)
Opus 43 Two Russian Folk-Songs for bass or tenor and piano (1945)
Opus 43A Two Russian Folk-Songs, version for mezzo-soprano and piano (1964)
Opus 44 String Quartet No. 2 in G minor (1945)
Opus 45 Piano Sonata No. 2 in E flat major (1945)
Opus 46 Piano Sonata No. 3 in F major (1946)
Opus 47 "The Taras Family", opera in 4 acts (1947-1950)
Opus 48 Violin Concerto in C major (1948)
Opus 49 Cello Concerto No. 1 in G minor (1948-1949)
Opus 50 Piano Concerto No. 3 in D major (1952)
Opus 51 Easy Variations for piano, volume 2| Five Variations on Folk-Themes (1952)
Opus 52 Ten Shakespeare Sonnets for voice and piano (1953-1955)
Opus 53 "Nikita Vershinin", opera in 4 acts (1954-1955)
Opus 54 Symphony No. 4 in C minor (1956)
Opus 55 Two Romances after A. Kovalenkov for tenor and piano (1956)
Opus 56 "Romeo and Julia", musical sketches for large symphony orchestra (1956)
Opus 57 "Song of Tomorrow, Spring and Peace", cantata for children's chorus and orchestra (1957-1958)
Opus 58 "Song of Spring", operetta in 3 acts (1957)
Opus 59 Rondo for piano in A minor (1958)
Opus 60 Four Easy Rondos for piano (1958)
Opus 61 Preludes and Fugues for piano (1958-1959)
Opus 62 "In Fairy Tail's Forrest", musical pictures for narrator, voice and piano (1958)
Opus 63 "The Leninists", cantata after Y. Dolmatovski for three choruses and large symphony orchestra (1958-1959)
Opus 64 Pathetic Overture for orchestra (1960)
Opus 65 "Spring", symphonic poem for orchestra (1960)
Opus 66 "The Camp of Friendship", songs of the pathfinders of Artek for voice or children's chorus and piano (1961)
Opus 67 "A Kitchen-Garden on View", round dances for children's chorus and piano (1961)
Opus 68 Etudes in Major and Minor for cello solo (1961)
Opus 69 Rondo for violin and piano (1961)
Opus 70 Three Dance-Songs for voice and piano (1960)
Opus 71 Sonata for cello and piano in B major (1962)
Opus 72 Requiem for soloists, mixed chorus, children's chorus and orchestra (1962)
Opus 73 Three Songs of Revolutionary Cuba for voice and piano (1963)
Opus 74 Three Eightlines of R. Gamsatov for mezzo-soprano and piano (1963)
Opus 75 Rhapsody on a Theme of the Song "Schoolyears" for piano and orchestra (1963)
Opus 76 Five Romances after R. Gamsatov for mezzo-soprano and piano (1963-1964)
Opus 77 Cello Concerto No. 2 in C major (1964)
Opus 78 To the Memory of the Heroes of Gorlovka, symphonic picture in E sharp minor (1965)
Opus 79 To the Memory of Sergei Prokofiev, rondo for cello and piano (1965)
Opus 80 Pieces for violin and piano (1965)
Opus 81 "Spring-Dances" for piano (1965)
Opus 82 "On the Motherland", cantata after Z. Solodar for children's chorus and orchestra (1965)
Opus 83 "The Sisters", opera in 3 acts (1968-1969)
Opus 84 Recitative and Rondo for piano (1967)
Opus 85 "The Eternal Flame in Bryansk", symphonic poem
Opus 86 "In The Camp of the Pathfinders", six pieces for piano (1968)
Opus 87 Variations on Folk-Themes for piano (1967)
Opus 88 Six Pieces for piano (1971)
Opus 89 Thirty-Five Easy Pieces for piano (1972-1974)
Opus 90 "Colas Breugnon", opera in 3 acts (second version) (1967-1968)
Opus 91 "Conversation with a Cactus", eight children's songs after V. Viktorov for voice and piano (1969)
Opus 92 Three songs about Lenin for children's chorus and piano (1970)
Opus 93 "A Letter to the 30th Century", oratorio (1972)
Opus 93A "Lyric Melodies" for piano (1971-1972)
Opus 94 "Three Songs-Plays" after I. Rachillo for children's chorus and piano (1973)
Opus 95 "The Heroes of the Revolution of 1905" for wind orchestra (1974)
Opus 96 "ISME-Fanfares" for symphony orchestra (1974)
Opus 97 "Songs of Friendship" for female chorus, children's chorus and soprano or tenor (1975)
Opus 98 "Two Youth-Songs" after V. Viktorov for voice and piano (1975)
Opus 99 Piano Concerto No. 4 "Prague Concerto" (1975)
Opus 100 "Time", six romances after S. Marshak for baritone and piano (1975)
Opus 101 "Cry of the Song", cycle of romances after O. Tumanian for voice and piano (1978-1979)
