Nadezhda Simonyan
Nadezhda Simonyan (26 February 1922 - 7 June 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 Rostov-on-the-Don. She studied composition and piano at 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
[edit | edit source]- Sonata (violin and piano)[4]
Circus
[edit | edit source]- incidental music[4]
Film scores
[edit | edit source]- Adventures of Prince Florizel[8]
- Chief of Chukotka[9]
- Day of Happiness[9]
- Duel[4]
- Fifth Quarter[9]
- Flying Carpet[4]
- For No Apparent Reason[9]
- Green Dale[4]
- In the Town of S[9]
- Izhora Battalion[9]
- Lady with the Dog[10]
- Lyalka-Ruslan and His Friend Sanka[8]
- Nights of Farewell (with Yuri Prokoviev)[8]
- Old Man Khottabych[5]
- Only One[8]
- Pani Mariya[8]
- Sinful Angel[8]
- Smart Things[8]
- Snow Queen[8]
- Strict Male Life[8]
- Twelve Months[9]
- Two Lines in Small Font[8]
- Vesenniye Perevyortyshi[8]
- While the Mountains Still Stand[8]
Orchestra
[edit | edit source]- Concerto for Piano and Orchestra[11]
Piano
[edit | edit source]- pieces[4]
Radio scores
[edit | edit source]Vocal
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