Zhelobinsky, Valeri (Viktorovich)
Zhelobinsky, Valeri (Viktorovich)
Zhelobinsky, Valeri (Viktorovich), Russian composer, pianist, and teacher; b. Tambov, Jan. 27,1913; d. Leningrad, Aug. 13,1946. He studied in Tambov and with Shcherbachev at the Leningrad Cons. (1928-32). He taught at the Tambov Music School. As a pianist, he performed mainly his own compositions. His operas were written in a fine Romantic manner.
Works
dramatic: Kamarinsky muzhik, opera (Leningrad, Sept. 15,1933); Her Saint’s Day, opera (1934; Leningrad, Feb. 22, 1935); Mother, opera, after Maxim Gorky (Leningrad, Dec. 30, 1938); The Last Ball, operetta (Leningrad, March 30, 1939); film scores. ORCH.: 6 syms.: No. 1 (1930), No. 2, To the Memory of Revolutionary Victims (1932), No. 3, Dramatic (Moscow, Dec. 17,1939), No. 4 (Moscow, May 30,1943), No. 5 (1944), and No. 6 (1946); 3 piano concertos (1933, 1934, 1939); Violin Concerto (1934); Romantic Poem for Violin and Orch. (1939). P i a n o : 24 Preludes; 2 children’s albums.
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire