Nadezhda Simonyan

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Nadezhda Simonyan (February 26, 1922 - June 7, 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]

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Radio scores

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