Revol Bounine – Wikipedia

Revol Samoïlovitch Bounine (in Russian : Revolus Samoilovich Bunin ), born the April 6, 1924 in Moscow and died the July 3, 1976 In Moscow, is a Soviet composer.

The father of Revol Bounine, Samouil Markovitch, was a Bolshevik, a member of the Bolshevik party before the Russian revolution and taught the social economy in a Moscow Institute. Bounine was called Revol Because of the Russian Revolution.

Revol was 6 years old when he started writing music. He began by writing scores, but in Soviet Russia post-revolutionary years music paper being rare, he wrote above all on simple paper. Revol Bounine writes steps, waltzes, polka and minuets.

Bounine’s mother, sick, died when he was 14, leaving him to the education of his father. It was she who made him play piano.

In 1938, Bounine began his composition studies at the Moscow music school, with Professor Ilya Litinsky. During his third year of studies, he was admitted to the Conservatory and continued his studies with Professor Vissarion Chebaline, who was, at the time, director of the Conservatoire. In 1941, he was first summoned to work in a military factory in Moscow, then he was integrated into active service, but taking into account his musical donations, he remained parked near Moscow in order to be able to continue his studies. He was demobilized for health reasons in mars 1943 . In June 1943 , Dimitri Chostakovitch came to teach at the Moscow Conservatory and chose Bounine as the first student. For a while, Bounine was the only student of Chostakovitch. He left the conservatory with the honors in 1945. Chebaline could not forgive Bounine from having dismissed him for the benefit of Chostakovitch, and he prevented his name was added to the honor table of exemplary students.

In 1947, Bounine settled in Leningrad, where he taught musical arrangement at the Leningrad Conservatory and Assisted Chostakovitch as a composition co -production. The same year he created his second symphony under the direction of the conductor Ievgueni Mravinski. In 1948 he returned to Moscow and became a music publisher for the state.

Following a Soviet decree establishing strict rules for musical composition and art, Chostakovitch was sent from his post as a professor to the Conservatory. Bounine, who was then his assistant, lost his post at the same time and became for a time persona non grata . He earned his life by writing for other composers. His music nevertheless won the Stalin Prize several times, but without Bounine being present or even mentioned in the selection committee.

Revol Bounine died on July 3, 1976 In Moscow, surrounded by his wife and many students. He had no children. He was never rewarded by the State, still having, unlike many of his colleagues, refused to join the Communist Party.

Bounine left the scores of 48 films, cartoons and documentaries. He wrote 45 major compositions, including nine symphonies, sonatas, many quartets and trios, an opera, romances and several concertos for piano and violin. His concerto for Alto (op. 22) was composed in 1953 and dedicated to his nearby friend, the violist Roudolf Barchaï, who was later to found and direct the Moscow Chamber Orchestra.

Non -exhaustive list

Scenic works

• Masquerade (Маскарад), Opera (1944); According to Mikhail Lermontov’s “masquerade” drama
• Narodovoltsi (Народоволцы), opera in 3 acts, 10 scenes with prologue and epilogue; Livret of A. Medvedev after Sergei Stepniak-Kravtchinski’s novel, Andreï Kojoukhov (Andrey Kozhukhov); 1889

Works for orchestra

• Symphony n ° 1 (1943)
• Symphony n ° 2 (1945)
• Stone guest (Stone Guest), Poème Symphonique d’Après Alexandre Puchkine (1949)
• Ouverture-Fantaisie (Enterprise-Fantasia) (1953)
• Symphony n ° 3 (1957)
• Symphony n ° 4, open. 30 (1959)
• Symphony n ° 5, open. 32 (1961)
• Concerto for chamber orchestra (1961)
• Musique Pour Cordes (string music) En Ré Mineur, Op. 36 (1965)
• Symphony n ° 6, open. 37 (1966)
• Symphonic poem, op. 38 (1967)
• Symphony n ° 7 (1969)
• Symphony n ° 8 for chamber orchestra (1970)
• Symphony n ° 9 (1975)
• Symphony n ° 10

Concert

• Poem for viola and orchestra (1952)
• Concerto in major soil for viola and orchestra, op. 22 (1953)
• Concerto in minor soil for organ and chamber orchestra, op. 33 (1961)
• Concerto in minor for piano and orchestra, op. 34 (1963)
• Symphonie Concertante (Concert Symphony), Concerto Pour Vioolon et Orchestre, Op. 43 (1972)

Chamber music

• String quartet n ° 1 (1943)
• Quintet with piano (1946)
• Trio with piano (1946)
• Sonata for violin and piano (1955)
• Sonata in a minor for viola and piano, op.26 (1955)
• Suite for Alto and Piano (1955)
• String quartet n ° 2, op. 27 (1956)

Piano works

• Sonatine (1939)
• Match n ° 1 pour piano (1947)
• Match n ° 2 pour piano (1951)
• Album Pour Enfants (Children’s Album) (1961)
• Sonata for piano in fa ♯ minor, op. 42 (1971)

Vocal works

• Lead us (Lead us, road), Oratorio Pour Solistes, Chœur et Orchestre Après William Shakespeare, Op. 35 (1964)
• Stone strip , cycle of poems for choir (1958); Text by Nikolay Nekrassov
• Chansons Sur des Poèmes de Sergei Essenine (romances on the verses of Sergei Yesenin) Pour Voix Moyenne et Piano; Texte Par Sergueï Essenine

Movie soundtrack

• Two lives (Two lives, Aussi Appelé “Sisters”, Sists) (1956); Dirigé par Constantin voinov
• Ten days that shook the world (Ten days that shocked the world) (1968), d’Après le livre de John Reed (1919)

Cartoons

• Two gourmet bear (Two greedy bear cubs) (1954)
• Three penguins (Three penguins) (1961)
• The flying proletarian (Flying proletarian) (1962)
• Moskvichok (Muscovite) (1963)