Yevgeny Brusilovsky

Yevgeny Grigorievich Brusilovsky (Template:Lang-rus; Template:OldStyleDateTemplate:Spaced ndash9 May 1981) was a Soviet Russian composer who settled in Kazakhstan. He wrote the first Kazakh opera, co-wrote the music for the Anthem of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, and was a People's Artist of the Kazakh SSR.

Biography

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Yevgeny Brusilovsky on a Kazakhstan stamp

Brusilovsky was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia in 1905. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory and later at the Leningrad Conservatory, under Maximilian Steinberg.<ref name=scribd>scribd</ref>

In 1933 he was sent to Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan (then the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic) to study the folk music of the region, and stayed there for the rest of his life.<ref name=art>The Art-Music Forum</ref> From 1934 to 1936 he was the Music Director of the Kazakh National Theatre, and from 1949 to 1951 the Artistic Director of the Philharmonic.<ref name=scribd/> He founded the Abay Opera House in 1934.<ref name=dsch>DSCH Journal</ref>

Brusilovsky taught at the Alma-Ata Conservatory (now the Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory) from 1944, becoming Professor of Composition in 1955. His students included A. Zatsepin, B. Baikadamov, M. Tulebaev, B. Yerzakovich, K. Kuzhamyarov, E. Rakhmadiyev and S. Mukhamedzhanov.<ref name=scribd/>

He died in Moscow in 1981, aged 75.

Works

Yevgeny Brusilovsky frequently used the music and legends of Kazakhstan in his compositions.<ref name=stamp/> They include:

• 9 operas
  • Kyz Zhibek (1934)
  • Zhalbyr (1935)
  • Er Torgyn (Er-Targhin)<ref name=art/> (1936)
  • Aiman-Sholpan (1938)
  • Golden Grain (1940)
  • The Guard, forward! (1942)
  • Amangeldy (1945, co-author M. Tulebayev)
  • Dudarai (1953)
  • Heirs (1962)
• 4 ballets
  • Gulyandom (1940; the first Uzbek national ballet)<ref name=stamp>Stamps of Music</ref>
  • Kozy Korpesh and Bojan Sulu (1967)
• 8 symphonies<ref>Enciclopedia della Musica e dei Musicisti UTET (Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians UTET)</ref><ref name=russ>russiancomposers.org.uk</ref>
  • Symphony No. 1 (1931)
  • Symphony No. 2 (1932)
  • Symphony No. 3 "The Golden Steppe" (1944) <ref name=art/>
  • Symphony No. 4 in C minor (1957)
  • Symphony No. 5 in D minor (1961)
  • Symphony No. 6 in G "On a Theme of Kurmangazy" (1965; State Prize of Kazakhstan, 1967)
  • Symphony No. 7 (1969)
  • Symphony No. 8 (1972)
• Lyric Poem "Lonely Birch" for orchestra (1942)<ref name=art/>
• Anthem of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (1945, with M. Tulebaev and L. Hamidi)
• Piano Concerto in D minor (1947) <ref name=art/>
• Trumpet Concerto (1967) <ref name=art/>
• Cello or Viola Concerto (1969) <ref name=art/>
• Zheldrme pamyati Baizkova for folk orchestra<ref name="russ"/>
• 2 string quartets (1944, 1951)
• Violin Sonata<ref name=russ/>
• Boz Aygir (The Wild Horse; violin and piano<ref name=dsch/>
• Scherzo, violin and piano
• a large number of choral and vocal works
  • Dzhambul, Cycle for tenor and orchestra<ref name=russ/>
  • Soviet Kazakhstan Cantata, narrator, soloists, chorus and orchestra<ref name=russ/>
  • Songs of Life for voice and piano<ref name=russ/>
• 500 songs and ballads