Vladimir Shcherbachov

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The grave of Vladimir Shcherbachov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Shcherbachov (Shcherbachyov, Shcherbachev) (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Щербачёв; 24 January 1889, in Warsaw – 5 March 1952, in Leningrad) was a Soviet composer.

He studied with Maximilian Steinberg, Anatoly Lyadov, and Jāzeps Vītols (Joseph Wihtol) at the St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1908 to 1914. While there he also worked as a pianist for Sergey Diaghilev and taught theory. He served in World War I and then worked in Soviet government music positions. In 1918-1923 he worked as a lecturer and ran the musical department of the Narkompros. He later became a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory (1923-1931 and 1944-1948) and the Tbilisi Conservatory. He counted Boris Arapov, Vasily Velikanov, Evgeny Mravinsky, Valery Zhelobinsky, Gavriil Popov, Valerian Bogdanov-Berezovsky, Pyotr Ryazanov, and Mikhail Chulaki among his pupils, as well as various others.

Works

  • Anna Kolossova, opera (1939, unfinished);
  • Tabachny Kapitan, operetta (1943);
  • Five symphonies:
    • No. 1 (1914);
    • No. 2 ("Blokovskaya” or "Blok", with soloists and chorus, 1925);
    • No. 3 (Symphony-Suite, 1931);
    • No. 4 ("Izhorskaya", with soloists and chorus, 1935);
    • No. 5 ("Russkaya", 1948, 2nd version in 1950);
  • Nonet for 7 instruments, voice and dancer (1919);
  • Suite for string quartet (1939) and other chamber music;
  • Two piano sonatas and other piano works;
  • Various Romances;
  • Film music:
  • Two Suites:
    • The Thunderstorm
    • Peter I;

References

  • Don Randel, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard, 1996, p. 831.
  • Genrich Orlov, Vladmir Vladimirovich Shcherbachov (Leningrad, 1959)
  • Haas, David (1992). "Boris Asafyev and Soviet Symphonic Theory". The Musical Quarterly. 76 (3): 410–432. doi:10.1093/mq/76.3.410.

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