Oscar Borisovich Feltsman (Russian: Оскар Борисович Фельцман; b. February 18, 1921, Odessa) is a Soviet/Russian composer, father of Vladimir Feltsman.
[edit] Biography
Oscar B. Feltsman was born on February 18, 1921 in Odessa. His father, orthopedic surgeon Boris Osipovich Feltsman, played the piano professionally.
Oscar Feltsman from early childhood prevented any concert speakers and toured in Odessa musicians.
At the age of five Oscar Feltsman began playing the violin with a famous teacher Piotr Stolyarsky. Playing on the piano, he studied by Bertha Reynbald, which dealt with Emil Gilels, Tatiana Goldfarb and other famous pianists.
First piano piece played by Oscar Feltsman - "Autumn" came in a year when Oscar Feltsman was six years old.
In 1939, O. Feltsman graduate school named by Stolyarsky, where he studied composition with famous composer Nikolai Vilinsky[1]. Then he was admitted to Moscow Conservatory, the class of composer Vissarion Shebalin, who on behalf of the Moscow Conservatory sent Nikolai Vilinsky a letter of thanks for the training O. Feltsman as a composer.
During the Great Patriotic War Feltsman was evacuated to Novosibirsk, where at the age of 20 became the executive secretary of Siberian Union of Composers.
In Novosibirsk Feltsman wrote music for the philharmonic, Leningrad Alexandrinsky Theater, Jewish theater of Belarus. In the same period Feltsman wrote the operetta based on the playing of Valentin Kataev "Blue Scarf", which was defeated in the newspaper "Pravda".
In 1941, in Novosibirsk Oscar Feltsman married the student-choral conducting faculty of the Moscow Conservatory Evgenia Kaydanovskaya. In Moscow, he returned with his wife in 1945. Temporarily settled with relatives in Krivoarbatsky lane.
In 1948, at the Moscow theater operetta the premiere of the musical comedy "air castle". In 1952, were held two more premieres - in the Operetta Theater - "Suvorochka" and the Theater of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko - "Mediterranean Sea Make a Noise". Feltsman also began to write music for the circus show, variety show, staged by Natalia Sats for children.
In 1952, Oscar Feltsman wrote the Violin Concerto in three parts. Then he wrote a few songs - the first of these was the "Cruise" on poems B. Dragunsky and L. Davidovich. Played song Leonid Utyosov.
Most popular song received "Convallarias", written in verse Olga Fadeeva and for the first time sung by Gelena Velikanova. Because of this song Feltsman has been opale for 23 years.
In art song Oscar Feltsman collaborated with various poets, among them Andrey Voznesensky, Rasul Gamzatov, Eugene Dolmatovsky, Mihail Matusovsky, I. Kohanovsky, Mark Lisyansky, Lev Oshanin, Robert Rozhdestvensky, V. Kharitonov, I. Shaferan, M. Tanich, V. Orlov, N. Olev, M. Ryabinin.
The songs by Feltsman sang L. Utesov, Mark Bernes, Vladimir Troshin, Joseph Kobzon, Muslim Magomaev, Edita Piekha, E. Hil, V. Tolkunova, Yuri Gulyaev, G. Ots, Lev Leshchenko, O. Anofriev, M. Pahomenko, L. Serebrennikov. In 1973, Oscar Feltsman wrote music for productions "Charley's Aunt", "The Old Houses" and "Let the Guitar to Play". In mid-1980s, Feltsman arranged for his authorship of concerts instrumental ensemble "The Lights of Moscow" with soloist Irina Allegrova, after two years of success passed it to David Tuhmanov.
In 1987, Oscar Feltsman written vocal cycle "Songs of Bygone", music to a few Jewish folk songs on the text of the book "Songs of Bygone. From Jewish Folk Poetry", translated by Naum Grebnev, M., 1986. Played a cycle of songs Joseph Kobzon.
In the late 1990s Feltsman wrote 12 songs on the poetry of Yuri Garin. Music performed in Odessa on their copyright in concert celebrates 200th anniversary of the city. These songs are performed including Alla Yoshpe and Stahan Rakhimov, Klara Novikova.
Oscar Feltsman wrote a number of chamber works: "Ten romances on the poems of Inna Lisnyanskaya", "The cycle of romances on the poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva", "The cycle of songs on poems Hayyim Nahman Bialik".
He was awarded the Order "For Service to Fatherland" third degree.
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[edit] External links
Oscar Feltsman at the Internet Movie Database