Vladimir Shcherbachev

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Shcherbachev, (also Shcherbachyov) (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Щербачё́в, born: January 24, 1889 Warsaw – died: March 5, 1952 Leningrad) was a Russian composer of the Soviet era.

He studied with Maximilian Steinberg, Anatoly Lyadov, and Jasep Vitols (Joseph Witol) at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In 1918-1923 he worked as a lector and ran the musical department of the Narkompros. He later became a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory (1923-1930 and 1946-1948) and the Tiflis (Tbilisi) Conservatory. He counted Boris Arapov, Vasily Velikanov, Evgeny Mravinsky, Gavriil Popov, and Mikhail Chulaki among his pupils, as well as various others.

[edit] Works

  • Anna Kolossova, opera (1939, unfinished);
  • Tabachny Kapitan, operetta (1943);
  • Five symphonies:
No. 1 (1914),
No. 2 (with soloists and chorus, 1925);
No. 3 (Symphony-Suite, 1931);
No. 4 (Izhorskaya, with soloists and chorus, 1935);
No. 5 (Russian, 1948, 2nd version in 1950);
  • Two Suites; The Thunderstorm and Peter I;
  • 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:
The Thunderstorm (after Alexander Ostrovsky, 1934);
Peter I (1937-1939);
Polkovodets Suvorov (1941);
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