Snow Storm Waltz - Music

Georgy Sviridov Георгий Васильевич Свиридов Georgij Vasil'evič Svirídov December 16 1915 – January 5 1998 Was A Russian And Soviet Neoromantic Composer. In 1935 Sviridov Composed A Cycle Of Lyrical Romances Based On The Poetry Of Alexander Pushkin Which First Brought Him Critical Acclaim. During His Studies In Leningrad Conservatory 1936–1941 Sviridov Experimented With Different Genres And Different Types Of Musical Composition. He Completed His Piano Concerto No. 1 1936 – 1939 Symphony No. 1 And Chamber Symphony For Strings 1940 . Later Sviridov Would Turn To The Rich Russian Musical Heritage Including The Folk Songs For Inspiration. Among Sviridov's Most Popular Orchestral Pieces Are The Romance And The Waltz From His The Blizzard Musical Illustrations After Pushkin 1975 That Were Originally Written For The Eponymous 1964 Film Based On The Short Story From Pushkin's The Tales Of The Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin. A Short Segment From His Score For The 1967 Film Time Forward! Время Вперёд! Was Selected As The Opening Theme For The Main Evening TV News Program Vremya Время 'time' And Became The Staple Of Soviet Life For Several Generations. Poetry Always Occupied An Important Place In Sviridov's Artistic Universe. He Wrote Songs And Romances To The Lyrics Of Mikhail Lermontov 1938 1957 Alexander Blok 1941 William Shakespeare 1944–1960 And Robert Burns In Russian Translation 1955 . Despite The Popularity Of Sviridov's Instrumental Works Both The Composer Himself And The Music Critics Regarded Vocal And Choral Music To Be His Main Strengths. Pathetic Oratorio 1959 After Vladimir Mayakovsky Has Been Called A Masterful Musical Rendering Of One Of The Most Popular Russian Poets Of Revolution And Early Soviet Time. Sviridov's Prolific Vocal Chamber And Vocal Symphonic Output Includes Oratorio To The Memory Of Sergei Yesenin 1956 Little Cantata Wooden Russia 1964 After Yesenin Cantata Songs Of Kursk 1964 Spring Cantata 1972 After Nikolai Nekrasov Songs Romances And Cantatas After Fyodor Tyutchev Sergei Yesenin Alexander Blok Boris Pasternak Alexander Prokofiev Robert Rozhdestvensky. He Also Wrote One Opera Twinkling Lights 1951 . While Sviridov's Music Remains Little Known In The West His Works Received High Praise In His Homeland For Their Memorable Lyrical Melodies And National Flavor. read less