Mikhail Iosifovich Nosyrev (; May 28, 1924 – March 28, 1981) was a Soviet composer. He was born in

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and died in

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Biography

Nosyrev was born in Leningrad on May 28, 1924 and quickly began learning violin and piano at the age of eight. In 1941, during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, he was a first year student at the

Leningrad Conservatory The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory () (formerly known as the Petrograd Conservatory and Leningrad Conservatory) is a school of music in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty members ...

. Two years later he became an orchestra soloist at the radio orchestra of Leningrad. In 1943, Nosyrev was arrested by the

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along with his mother and stepfather and condemned to death according to the

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of the penal code of the

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. The main evidence of the counter-revolutionary activities of Nosyrev was his diary discovered during the search of his home containing "anti-Soviet" content. One month later, his death penalty was commuted into ten years in a

gulag The Gulag was a system of Labor camp, forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The word ''Gulag'' originally referred only to the division of the Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies, Soviet secret police that was in charge of runnin ...

, that he served in the camp of

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in the

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, 2,500 km away from

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. He began composing during his prison sentence. After serving his term, he was exiled in the town of

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where he worked as the conductor of the State Theater due to a loss of civil rights for a period of five years. From 1958 to 1981, Nosyrev was the director of the opera and ballet theater of Voronezh. In 1967, he became a member of the

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. His membership in it was supported by

Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer. Shostak ...

's recommendation. He wrote four symphonies, three concertos (for violin, piano and cello), four string quartets, the ballets ''The Unforgettable'', ''The River Don Cossacks'', ''Song of Triumphant Love'' (from

Ivan Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev ( ; rus, links=no, Иван Сергеевич ТургеневIn Turgenev's day, his name was written ., p=ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf; – ) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poe ...

's novel of the same name) and around 100 pieces of

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...

. In 1988, seven years after his death at the age of 56, he was completely forgiven by the Supreme Court of the USSR.

Works

Symphonies

* First Symphony (1965) * The Second Symphony in Memory of D. D.

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(1977) * Third Symphony (1978) * Fourth Symphony (1980)

Concerts

* Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1971) * Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1973) * Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1974)

Ballets

* "This Cannot Be Forgotten" (1966) * "Song of Triumphant Love" (1969) - based on the story by I. S.

Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev ( ; rus, links=no, Иван Сергеевич ТургеневIn Turgenev's day, his name was written ., p=ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf; – ) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poe ...

* "The Don Freemen" (1976)

Chamber instrumental works

* Sonatina for piano (1947) * Four Preludes for Harp (1964) * Nocturne for Flute and Piano (1968) * Three Quartets (1968, 1972, 1980)

Essays of different genres

* Fairy Tale. Symphonic Poem (1947) * Capriccio for violin and orchestra (1957) * Ballad of a Fallen Warrior for soloist, choir and orchestra (1958) * Nocturne for mixed choir a cappella (1979)

References

External links

*http://www.nosyrev.com/biography 1924 births 1981 deaths Russian ballet composers Gulag detainees Modernist composers Russian opera composers Soviet male opera composers Russian male classical composers Soviet artists 20th-century Russian male musicians Soviet composers {{Russia-composer-stub