Dmitrij Borisovič Kabalevskij (RussianДмитрий Борисович Кабалевский, commonly transliterated in English as Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky) (1904 - 1987)
His Life
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Kabalevsky was a celebrated Soviet composer. He was born in St. Petersburg on December 30, 1904. His father was a mathematician and expected Dmitri to study math. Against his father's will, Dmitri studied at the Moscow Conservatory in 1925, where he studied with Miaskovsky and became a professor in the Conservatory in 1932. During World War II, he wrote many patriotic songs since he joined the Communist Party in 1940. He died in Moscow in 1987 on February 14, 1987.
He was awarded a number of state honours for his musical works. He wasn't just a celebrated composer, but also a writer and pianist. In the 1950's and 1960's, he became a public figure in Soviet Union.
His Works
Among his works were:
Violin Concerto (op. 48, 1948)
24 Little Preludes (op. 38, 1924), based on Russian Folksongs by Rimsky-Korsakov.
Soviet composer Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky was born in St. Petersburg in December 1904 and began piano studies at an early age.
Kabalevsky's own compositional style is rooted firmly in the 19th-century tradition of Borodin, Tchaikovsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov and is marked by folk-like melodic simplicity, traditional forms, tonal harmony, and rich, skillful orchestration.
DmitryKabalevsky composed the last of his musical works in the late 1970s and died in Moscow in February 1987.
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