Fomin, Boris Ivanovich (composer)

Fomin's musical abilities showed up early: as early as 4 years old, he learned to play the accordion. His parents initially took this negatively, because they wanted to see him as a major official, officer or scientist, but not a musician.

However, later he was still sent to a real school . At the same time, he took lessons from pianist A.N. Esipova .

After the First World War and the October Revolution of 1917, his father was offered a place in the new state apparatus, and in 1918 the family moved to Moscow .

In 1919 he went to the front, then worked on the restoration of front-line railways. After some time, he began to give concerts right at the front.

Returning to Moscow, he continued composing music and tried himself in many musical genres, such as operetta and ballet . However, his vocation was romance.

Upon returning from the front, he immediately declared himself a master of romance. One of the first is the one that subsequently went around the whole world and is still being performed - “Only once is a meeting in life”. He dedicated it to the gypsy singer Maria Fyodorovna Masalskaya . Among other romances are known “ Long Dear ” to the poems of K. Podrevsky (the English version entitled “Those Were the Days” became a hit in the performance of Mary Hopkin in 1968), “Hey, guitar friend”, “ Your eyes are green ” and many others.

However, at the All-Russian Music Conference in Leningrad in 1929, the romance was recognized as a counter-revolutionary genre and, accordingly, banned. After this, Fomin's work was forgotten.

In 1937, Fomin went to Butyrka prison , where he spent about a year.

However, with the outbreak of war , a new upsurge began in his work. During the war, he composed 150 front-line songs, created with his friends the front-line theater "Hawk" at the club of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - for many months it was the only theater in Moscow, which also produced concert programs and performances that were in tune with the times. Many of Fomin’s songs - “Not Once, Not Two”, “Wait for Me”, “Quietly in the Hut”, “Letter from the Front” scattered across the country immediately after the premiere.

At the end of the war, Fomin overtook a new wave of oblivion. He died in 1948 . He was buried at the Vvedensky cemetery in Moscow. Fomin performed most of his works from memory and did not make notes to them. They are not preserved. Until now, some works have not been found, the notes of which were published by Fomin in the 1920s. ^[one]

Romances

• "Arbor", words M. Makarova
• “Thank you, don’t”. N. Koval
• "Swamp lights", words Oscar Osenin
• “Perhaps I will be cruelly mistaken,” p. Kaplan
• "Evenings Forgotten," Konstantin Podrevsky
• "Free", words O. Fomina
• "In the garden empty", s. Mikhail Lakhtin
• "All Ahead," p. Alexander Lugin ^[2]
• "All the same song," Paul German
• "Two worlds", words Mikhail Lakhtin
• “Two tears”, cl. Dmitry Ugryumov
• " Dear Long, " Konstantin Podrevsky ^[3]
• "Emerald", words Anatoly D'Actilus ^[4]
• “And Not Once, Not Two,” p. Grigory Gridov
• "And I will leave," Paul German
• “Apparently destined,” words Oscar Osenin
• "To you, my friend," E. Elporta ^[5]
• "People from the Fog," p. Boris Timofeev
• “Shawl Doesn’t Warm Me”, arrangement, words E. Obolenskaya
• "Past ... Past ..." Oscar Osenin
• "It makes me so sad without you," unknown the author
• "My Golden", words Konstantin Podrevsky
• “We parted like two passers-by,” p. Konstantin Podrevsky
• “We only know how strange it is,” p. Leo Penkovsky
• "Do not say," Oscar Osenin
• "I do not regret," Paul German
• An Unexpected Hurricane M. Kashtanova
• "No, life will not go away," Anatoly D'Actil
• "Never, nothing ..." Oscar Osenin
• “But it will be too late,” p. Boris Timofeev
• “New Song”, words Anatoly D'Actil
• “But then you were with me,” Kruglova
• “Take a look around” Boris Timofeev ^[6]
• “Distant Lights”, words Oscar Osenin
• "Fragments", words Konstantin Podrevsky
• "It fades, it has faded," ***
• "Song of Happiness," p. Lyudmila Davidovich ^[7]
• "Cry if you want to cry," Konstantin Podrevsky
• “Sing, gypsy!” Boris Timofeev ^[8]
• “Full, falcon, do not be sad,” words Ilya Fink
• "Forgive me for everything," Leo Drizo
• "Forgive you will not have enough strength," Konstantin Podrevsky
• “Simple words”, words Paul German
• "Farewell, you will not understand," Konstantin Podrevsky
• "Dawn", words Paul German
• "Native", words Paul German
• "Ripped Roses", words Mikhail Lakhtin
• “Sasha”, words Paul German
• "Free, melodious", words Anatoly D'Actil
• “Over the years we will forget everything,” words Mikhail Lakhtin
• "Old Notes", words unidentified author, only the text is preserved
• “Since You Left,” Oscar Osenin
• Tabor Paul German
• “So Simple,” p. Konstantin Podrevsky
• "Your eyes are green," p. Konstantin Podrevsky ^[9]
• “Only once”, words Paul German ^[10]
• "You lied too much," Boris Timofeev
• "Go away, my friend," Mikhail Lakhtin
• “Watch Count”, sec. Paul German
• “Hey Guitar Friend,” Boris Timofeev ^[11]
• "I will know," Konstantin Podrevsky
• "I will give everything," Konstantin Podrevsky
• "I remember the noisy words," Konstantin Podrevsky
• "I am older than you," Boris Timofeev ^[12]

Russian songs

• “Beat, heart”, words Konstantin Podrevsky
• "Throw the alarm", the next. Konstantin Podrevsky
• "The heart of a girl", words Boris Timofeev
• “In Love Again,” Anatoly D'Actil
• "The Old is Discarded," Konstantin Podrevsky
• "Grass ants", music. treatment

Intimate songs

• “Isaac”, words Konstantin Podrevsky
• Baghdad Thief Konstantin Podrevsky
• "You are crying, baby," B. Kormilitsyna
• "Cowboy Jim" - lost
• “Maharaja” Boris Timofeev ^[13]
• Little Johnny Vera Inber
• The Mask of Laughter Konstantin Podrevsky
• "Odalisque", words Mikhail Halperin
• “Claire’s song about Paris” A. Platova
• “Pilot Wirth” - lost
• Tahiti Trot, arrangement, lyrics Konstantin Podrevsky
• “So Simple - Very Easy,” w. Konstantin Podrevsky
• “Three Little Roses”, words by an unidentified author

Songs of World War II

• “Tramp-wind”, words Ilya Fink
• "Curly Harmonist", words Ilya Fink
• "Guards marching", words Ilya Fink
• "Wait for me," Konstantin Simonov
• “Courier for happiness”, words Dolev and Danziger
• "Leningrad mourning", words Osip Kolychev
• “Minutes of life”, words N. Koval
• "Muscovites", words M. Odintsova
• "The day will come," Paul German
• "The first snow", cl. Ilya Fink
• "A joke song about love," N. Koval
• "Letter from the Front," p. Paul German
• "On the Garden Ring", words N. Koval
• “Let the snowstorm”, words Grigory Gridov
• "Bright Moscow", words Ilya Fink
• "Happy age", words Paul German
• "Sons," Ilya Fink
• "Quiet in the hut", words Paul German
• "The wide road", words M. Krimker

Choreographic Sketches

• Barbecue Minor (one-step)
• Azure (tango)
• "Moon dance" (foxtrot)
• Maro (foxtrot)
• Mius-Trot (foxtrot)
• "Gypsy Hungarian", two variations

Ballets

• "Max and Moritz", a libretto by Vadim Shershenevich
• Moydodyr
• "Crystal shoe"

Operettas

• "Spanish Tavern" - lost
• Pirpoint Black's Career, by Alexei Fayko and Konstantin Podrevsky
• “Fooled eunuch” - lost

• Happy loser . Autost. E. L. Ukolova, BC Injections. - M .: Publishing House of the Moscow Aviation Institute, 2000. - 208 p.: Ill. ISBN 5-7035-2389-3 [1]

• Biography on Peoples.Ru
• The current discography of Boris Ivanovich Fomin on the site Russian-Records.com