Nadezhda Simonyan

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Nadezhda Simonyan (February 26, 1922 - June 7, 1997) was a Russian composer,[1] who wrote over 40 film scores[2] for movies, radio, and television, as well as chamber and orchestral works, and music for circus performances.[3]

Simonyan was born in

Leningrad Conservatory, where she received a diploma in 1950 and earned a medal. Her teachers included Oles Chishko and Venedikt Pushkov.[4]

In 1956, Simonyan wrote her first film soundtrack for

Old Man Khottabych, a children's film by Gennadii Kazanskii. Peter Rollberg described Simonyan's strength as a composer as a “. . . warm melodiousness that equally energizes cheerful, dramatic, and tragic episodes with a pragmatic, flexible approach to instrumentation.”[5] In 1960, Italian film maker Federico Fellini praised her soundtrack for the movie Lady with the Dog.[6] She often used smaller chamber orchestras, sometimes with folk instruments, for her film scores.[7]

Chamber

Circus

  • incidental music[4]

Film scores

Orchestra

  • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra[11]

Piano

Radio scores

  • Golden Apples[4]
  • On the Bank of Sevan[4]
  • Story of Turkey[4]
  • Three Bears[4]
  • Year of My Birth[4]

Vocal

References

  1. OCLC 28889156
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  2. ^ "Nadezhda Simonyan". Moviefit. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  3. ^ "Nadezhda Simonyan". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
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  11. ^ Smith, Steven (1984). The Piano Concerto After Bartok: A Survey for Performers of the Piano Concerto Literature with Emphasis on the Postwar Era, 1945-1970. University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music.