Fyodor Druzhinin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Fyodor Druzhinin

Russian composer and musician

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1932

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 01-Jul-2007

Profession: composer, musician, pedagogue, music pedagogue

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Fyodor Druzhinin

  • Fyodor Serafimovich Druzhinin, also Fedor, (Russian: ????? ??????????? ????????; 6 April 1932 in Moscow – 1 July 2007) was a Soviet violist, composer and music teacher. Druzhinin studied viola at the Moscow Central Music School with Nikolai Sokolov (1944–1950) and at the Moscow Conservatory with Vadim Borisovsky (1950–1957).
  • In 1957, he won first place at the All-Union Competition of Musicians in Moscow.
  • He replaced Borisovsky as violist of the Beethoven Quartet in 1964. From 1980, Druzhinin was the head of the viola department at the Moscow Conservatory.
  • Among his students are many noted violists such as Yuri Bashmet, Yuri Tkanov, Alexander Bobrovsky and Svetlana Stepchenko. Druzhinin composed several works for viola.
  • His Fantasia for Viola and Orchestra is best known.
  • He worked closely with Dmitri Shostakovich and other composers such as Mieczyslaw Weinberg (Moisei Samuilovich Vainberg), Alfred Schnittke, Andrei Volkonsky, Roman Ledenyov.
  • Shostakovich wrote his last composition for Druzhinin, the Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op.147 (1975).
  • Other dedications include Concerto-Poem (1963–1964) for viola and orchestra by Ledenyov, Viola Sonata (1971) and Viola Concerto (1972) by Grigory Frid, and Weinberg's Sonata No.1 (1971) for unaccompanied viola. Druzhinin was a 1988 recipient of the People's Artist of Russia award.
  • In 2001, he published his memoirs: ????????????.
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  • Pages of Life and Work).
  • The book relates countless memories of Shostakovich, Schnittke, Igor Stravinsky, Maria Yudina, Anna Akhmatova and colleagues of the Beethoven Quartet, among others.

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