Vladimir Shcherbachyov

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Shcherbachyov (Shcherbachev) (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Щербачёв, born on January 24, 1889, Warsaw; died on 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);