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Isaak Dunayevsky

Isaak Osipovich Dunayevsky also Dunaevsky or Dunaevski (Template:Lang-ru; 30 January [O.S. 18 January] 1900 Lokhvitsa, Poltava - 25 July 1955, Moscow) was a Soviet composer who specialized in "light music" for operetta and film comedies, frequently working with the film director Grigorij Aleksandrov.

Biography

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Komandarm A.I.Loktionov, composer A.V.Aleksandrov, I.O.Dunayevsky, D.I.Pokrass and artist I.M.Moskvin

Dunayevsky studied at the Kharkiv Musical School in 1910 where he studied violin under Joseph Akhron (1886-1943). During this period he started to study theory of music under Semyon Bogatyrev (1890-1960). He graduated in 1919 from the Kharkiv Conservatory. He worked in Leningrad (1929-1941), where he wad a director and conductor of the "Music-Hall" (1929-1934) and then moved to Moscow.

He was named a People's Artist of the USSR (1950) and was awarded the USSR State Prize (twice in 1941, 1951), two orders, and many medals (for instance, Order of the Red Labour Banner, Order of the Red Star, and the Badge of Honour).

He was one of the first composers in the Soviet Union to start using jazz. His music is comprehensible and accessible to the masses. His wrote simple, melodious and memorable music that made his success.

His son Maksim, also a well-known composer, continues the traditions of his father in musical and operetta.

He listed in a reply to the British book The World of Music the following as his chief works: The Golden Valley, (1937) operetta, The Free Wind, (1947) operetta, Music to the film "Circus" (1935), Music to the film "The Kuban Cossacks" (1949)

Works

  • "The Tranquillity of Faun", ballet (1924)
  • "Murzilka", ballet for children (1924)
  • "For Us and You, operetta (1924)
  • "Bridegrooms", operetta (1926)
  • "The Knives", operetta (1928)
  • "Polar Passions", operetta (1928)
  • "Million Langours", operetta (1932)
  • "The Golden Valley", operetta (1937)
  • "The Road to Happiness", operetta (1939)
  • "Moscow", suite for solovoices, chorus and orchestra (1941)
  • "Glory of the Railwaymen, cantata (1966)
  • "Our Homeland May Flourish!", cantata (1972)
  • Ballet Suite for orchestra
  • Suite on Chinese themes for orchestra
  • Rhapsody on Songs of the people of the Soviet Union for jazzorchestra
  • "The Musicstore" for jazzorchestra
  • String Quartet
  • Music to the Film "The Merry Boys"
  • Music to the Film "Circus"
  • Music to the Film "Song of the Fatherland"
  • Requiem for narrator and quintet
  • Song of Stalin for chorus and orchestra

Also:

  • Songs
  • Film music
  • Pieces for chamberorchestra
  • Incidental music for theatre

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