Kirill Molchanov
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Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov (Кирилл Владимирович Молчанов) (7 September 1922 - Moscow
, 14 March 1982) was a Russian and Soviet composer.
He was appointed director of the Bolshoi, at the time political disfavour had fallen on the lead soprano Galina Vishnevskaya
.
His works are in the Social Realist romantic tradition and were not warmly received when performed abroad.
Songs including:
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, 14 March 1982) was a Russian and Soviet composer.
He was appointed director of the Bolshoi, at the time political disfavour had fallen on the lead soprano Galina Vishnevskaya
Galina Vishnevskaya
Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya is a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966.-Biography:...
.
His works are in the Social Realist romantic tradition and were not warmly received when performed abroad.
Operas
- The Stone Flower (Каменный цветок) inspired by Ural Tales of P. BazhovPavel BazhovPavel Petrovich Bazhov was a Russian writer.Bazhov is best known for his collection of fairy-tale stories The Malachite Casket , based on the Urals folklore and published in the Soviet Union in 1939. In 1944, the translation of the collection into English was published in New York and London...
, Moscow, 1950 - Dawn (Заря) on the play of Boris LavrenyovBoris LavrenyovBoris Andreyevich Lavrenyov , born July 5 , 1891 in Kherson, died January 7, 1959 in Moscow, was a Soviet Russian writer and playwright....
"Rift" «Разлом», Moscow, 1956 - Via del Corno (Улица дель Корно) based on a novel by Vasco PratoliniVasco PratoliniVasco Pratolini was one of the most noted Italian writers of the twentieth century.Born in Florence, Pratolini worked at various jobs before entering the literary world thanks to his acquaintance with Elio Vittorini. In 1938 he founded, together with Alfonso Gatto, the magazine Campo di Marte...
, own libretto, Moscow, 1960 - Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (Ромео, Джульетта и тьма) based on the novel of Jan OtčenášekJan OtčenášekJan Otčenášek was a Czech novelist and playwright.Limping Orpheus is a semiautobiographical description of resistance by a group of young people mobilised by the Germans as munitions workers in the Totaleinsatz...
, own libretto. Leningrad, 1963 - The Unknown Soldier (Неизвестный солдат) own libretto. Voronezh, 1967
- Russian woman (Русская женщина) (on the novel by Yuri NagibinYuri NagibinYuri Markovich Nagibin was a Soviet writer, screenwriter and novelist.He is best known for his screenplays, but he also has written several novels and novellas, and many short stories. He is known for his novel The Red Tent that he later adapted for the screenplay for the film of the same name...
"Petticoat Government" «Бабье царство» own libretto. Voronezh, 1969) - The Dawns Here Are Quiet (Зори здесь тихие) on the novel by Boris VasilyevBoris VasilyevBoris Vasilyev is a Soviet writer. He was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.In October 1993, he signed the Letter of Forty-Two.-Selected filmography:* The Dawns Here Are Quiet...
own libretto, Frunze, 1973
Musicals
- Odysseus, Penelope, and others (Одиссей, Пенелопа и другие) inspired by Homer, own libretto, 1970
Works for soloist, chorus and orchestra
- Cantata poem "Song of Friendship" (lyrics by N. Dorizo, 1954)
Works for voice and piano
- Cycle to words by the Cuban poet Nicolás GuillénNicolás GuillénNicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista was a Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba.Guillén was born in Camagüey, Cuba...
(1956), - Cycle to words by Langston HughesLangston HughesJames Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance...
(1958), - Cycle to the words of Soviet poets (1961)
- Cycle to the words of F. Garcia Lorca (1963),
- Hiroshima Song (lyrics by modern Japanese poets, 1964)
- Black Box "Черная шкатулка" - lyrics of the Czech writer Ludwig Ashkenazy 1921-1986, (1967)
- Love lyrics of contemporary poets from different countries, (1972)
- To the words of Sergei YeseninSergei YeseninSergei Alexandrovich Yesenin was a Russian lyrical poet. He was one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century but committed suicide at the age of 30...
(1972) - The Sonnets of PetrarchPetrarchFrancesco Petrarca , known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch is often called the "Father of Humanism"...
(1974) - Miniatures - lyrics of Bai Juyi, (1974)
Songs including:
- Here are the soldiers go (lyrics by Mikhail Grigorievich Lvovskii 1919-1994)
- Fires are so many gold (lyrics by N. Dorizo)
Theatre Music
To over 30 dramatic productions, including:- "Mary Stuart" Schiller (Moscow Art Academic Theatre MAT, 1956)
- Three Fat Men Olesha (MAT, 1961)
- Kola Bryunon R. Rolland (MAT, 1972)
Music for films
More than 30, including:- Shyroka Strana Moya Rodnaya (1958)
- "It was in Penkovo" «Дело было в Пенькове»(1957)
- "Intractable" «Неподдающиеся»(1959)
- "On the Seven Winds" «На семи ветрах»(1962)
- "Shore" «Увольнение на берег» (1962)
- "Halt" «Полустанок»(1963)
- "We'll Live Till Monday" «Доживём до понедельника»(1968)
- "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" «А зори здесь тихие»(1972).