Nadezhda Simonyan

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Nadezhda Simonyan (26 February 1922 - 7 June 1997) was a Russian composer, [1] who wrote over 40 film scores [2] for movies, radio, and television, as well as chamber and orchestral works, and music for circus performances. [3]

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Simonyan was born in Rostov-on-the-Don. She studied composition and piano at Leningrad Conservatory, where she received a diploma in 1950 and earned a medal. Her teachers included Oles Chishko and Venedikt Pushkov. [4]

In 1956, Simonyan wrote her first film soundtrack for Old Man Khottabych , a children's film by Gennadii Kazanskii. Peter Rollberg described Simonyan's strength as a composer as a “. . . warm melodiousness that equally energizes cheerful, dramatic, and tragic episodes with a pragmatic, flexible approach to instrumentation.” [5] In 1960, Italian film maker Federico Fellini praised her soundtrack for the movie Lady with the Dog. [6] She often used smaller chamber orchestras, sometimes with folk instruments, for her film scores. [7]

Chamber

Circus

Film scores

Orchestra

Piano

Radio scores

Vocal

References

  1. ↑ Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN   0-8108-2769-7. OCLC   28889156.
  2. ↑ "Nadezhda Simonyan". Moviefit. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  3. ↑ "Nadezhda Simonyan". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. Books & Music (USA). ISBN   978-0-9617485-2-4.
  5. 1 2 Rollberg, Peter (2008-11-07). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN   978-0-8108-6268-5.
  6. ↑ Egorova, Tatiana (2014-07-10). Soviet Film Music. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-134-37725-1.
  7. ↑ Jaffé, Daniel (2022-02-15). Historical Dictionary of Russian Music. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN   978-1-5381-3008-7.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Simonyan, Nadezhda - listen online, download, sheet music". classical-music-online.net. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Hoovies". hoovies.net. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  10. ↑ Москва в кино (in Russian). Контакт-Культура. 2008. ISBN   978-5-93882-035-7.
  11. ↑ Smith, Steven (1984). The Piano Concerto After Bartok: A Survey for Performers of the Piano Concerto Literature with Emphasis on the Postwar Era, 1945-1970. University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music.
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