A Rybnikov Melodiia Skachat

50 Splendor and Death One such fellow composer of equally intrepid interest was Aleksei Rybnikov. Born on July 17, 1945 only a few weeks before Zhurbin he remains a direct peer, compatriot, and product of the same cultural environment. Rybnikov was a precocious child of two creative parents, and wrote his first pieces for piano at age eight. Like many of the composers discussed so far, he attended the Moscow Conservatory and studied with Aram Khachaturian, going on to teach in the Conservatory s composition department. In 1979, he was recognized as the most popular Soviet composer of the year. 111 Another classically trained member of the Third Direction, he is remembered today for his film and stage music, including the two rock operas The Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta (1976) and Juno and Avos (1979). 112 Fig. 4: Aleksei Rybnikov in the studio We turn now to the former, one of the very first Soviet rock operas along with Orpheus and Eurydice. Whereas Zhurbin s work was explicitly inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber s 111 Rybnikov Aleksei L vovich, Muzhdunarodnyi ob edinënnyi biografi cheskiy tsentr, n.d., accessed 7 November . 112 As Peter Schmelz mentions regarding Rybnikov s later opera: Alexei Rybnikov s Juno and Avos (Iunona i Avos, 1981; libretto by Andrei Voznesenskiy) is often mentioned as the first instance of the genre in the USSR, although it postdates Zhurbin s composition and also postdates Rybnikov s earlier rock opera, The Splendor and Death of Joaquin Murieta (Zvezda i smert Khoakina Mur ety, 1976; libretto by Pablo Neruda). See S. Frederick Starr, Red and Hot: The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union , With a New Chapter on the Final Years (New York: Limelight Editions, 1994), 374 n. 78; Alexei Rybnikov, Juno & Avos, Melodiya CD, (1996; the back cover proclaims it as Russia s First Rock Musical ); and Carol Pratl, A Russian Rock Opera: Junon and Avos, The Drama Review 28/2 (1984):

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