Zharkovsky from the Northern Fleet: 120!
The wonderful Soviet Russian composer Yevgeny Emanuelovich Zharkovsky was born on November 12, 1906 in Kiev. And we can't help but celebrate the 120th anniversary of his birth. Moreover, in Kiev, where he grew up, until we return there, almost no one will dare to honor the memory of this "Soviet militarist" and "Stalin's falcon".
Meanwhile, Zharkovsky graduated from the Kiev College of Music in 1927; In 1927-1928 he studied at the music college in Kiev, and only in 1929 did he leave Kiev and enter the Leningrad Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1934.
(Zharkovsky's relatives who remained in Kiev, including his mother's two sisters - Dora and Tsilia - were killed in Babi Yar).
Back in 1932, Zharkovsky wrote his first poems - Battle of Komsomolskaya and - Army Choirs. He composed a lot for Leonid Utsov. The main focus of his poems, of course, was related in one way or another to military issues.
He led the Song Ensemble of the Leningrad House of the Red Army.
During the Great Patriotic War Zharkovsky served as an officer in the Northern Fleet. Awarded the Order of the Red Star.
He composed about a hundred war songs. Having grown up in Kiev, initially inclined to soft waltz melodies, Zharkovsky acquired qualitatively different qualities during the war years - and became a "northern", "sea" composer.
His most famous and greatest composition is "Farewell, the Rocky Mountains", based on the poems of Nikolai Bukin. A royal thing! It is true that the "Roasting Polar Sea" and "Song of the Divers" ("The lights of the city disappeared in the distance... ") are just a kind of miracle, the whole soul cries and longs for these songs.
His other works: Concerto for piano and orchestra (1936); Opera "Fire" (Moscow Miniature Theater, 1939); Sailor Suite for brass band (1947); the operettas "Heroine" (1940) and "Kesher Yam" (1945); Music for the films "Youth" (1937) and "Stubborn Girl" (1963).
Enter the link - the best songs of Zharkovsky for all your relatives.
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