#Russian composer

[lesser-known-composers]

Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924) - 3 Pieces, Op. 1

Performer: Florian Noack on piano

[vintage-russia]

Italian opera singer Nini Giani as Lubava in Rimskiy-Korsakov's opera "Sadko",Italy (XX century)

[stranger15]

No matter what you say,

I love him anyway...

Music: P. I. Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake Ballet op.20 (Dance of the Swans)

[menandwomanofhistory]

Boris Tchaikovsky

[kafka-ohdear]

why would you say i love you when rachmaninoff was the pallbearer at scriabin's funeral in 1915 and then, 28 years later when his death was coming in 1943, he wished to be buried in novodevichy cementary, besides scriabin.

[attendtobeauty]

It's a great pleasure to share the delightful performance by Le Off (musiciens de l'Orchestre de Paris) of Stravinsky's Pastorale, a composition so different from his ballet and orchestral works.

[sarahtheflutist]

Born in Petrograd, Ustvolskaya studied from 1937 to 1939 at the college attached to the Leningrad Conservatory (later renamed the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory). From 1947 till 1977 she taught composition at this college. In 1939 she entered Dmitri Shostakovich's composition class at the Conservatory as the only female student in his class. Her composition teacher said of her:

"I am convinced that the music of G. I. Ustvolskaya will achieve world fame, and be valued by all who hold truth to be the essential element of music."[1]

Shostakovich sent some of his own as yet unfinished works to Ustvolskaya, attaching great value to her comments. Some of these pieces contain quotations from his pupil's compositions; for example, he employed the second theme of the Finale of her clarinet trio throughout the Fifth String Quartet and in the Michelangelo Suite (no. 9).

Ustvolskaya was a pupil of Shostakovich from 1939 to 1941 and from 1947 to 1948, but her works from the 1950s onwards retain little influence of his style. Until 1961 none of her true works were performed other than patriotic pieces written for official consumption. The middle of the 1960s witnessed greater tolerance for modernist music, and interest in Ustvolskaya began to grow – the Leningrad Union of Composers organized in the 1970s evenings of her music, which received high praise from listeners and critics. Widespread recognition came after her music was performed in several concerts of the 1989 Holland Festival.

[brummie-man-interests]

Lev Knipper [Lev Konstantinovich Knipper] (3 December [O.S. 21 November] 1898 – 30 July 1974) was a Soviet and Russian composer and OGPU/NKVD agent.

[nurhanarman]

Sergei Prokofiev: Visions Fugitive Nos 1, 3 & 4

[soviet-amateurs]

Dmitry Shostakovich on the Red Arrow train.

Photo by Tarasevich, 1966

[lesser-known-composers]

Jules Conus (1869-1942) - Violin Concerto in E Minor ·

Sergey Ostrovsky, violin

Conductor: Thomas Sanderling

Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

[vintage-russia]

Scene from an unknown opera in the Nikolay Andreyevich Rimskiy-Korsakov Conservatory Hall,Saint Petersburg (1910s)

[threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat]

oh a french horn is an unexpected inclusion in a musical with a four-part orchestra, but it's definitely a reference to Peter and the Wolf, a Prokofiev symphony where every animal character has not only their own motif but a specific instrument they're associated with. the wolf is a french horn. if you stretch a bit, you can say there are three houses plus a wolf just as there are three instruments plus a horn

[la-nero-maestro]

13 Preludes, Op.32 : No. 11 In B-Major

Composition Year : 1910

By Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff

Ruth Laredo, Pianist

[hanakihan]

i absolutely beg that if one day Tchaikovsky will end up as a servant in FGO he’ll be an archer class purely because of his 1812 overture

‘Sir you can’t use canons in music’

‘Watch me’

[wanderingmoonmen]

for my classical music heads