Zara Aleksandrovna Levina ( January 23 [ February 5 ] 1906 [1] , Simferopol - June 27, 1976 , Moscow ) - Soviet pianist and composer. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1967). The wife of the composer Nikolai Chamberzhi , the mother of the memoirist and translator Valentina Chambery .
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| Birth name | Zara Aleksandrovna Levina |
| Date of Birth | January 23 ( February 5 ) 1906 |
| Place of Birth | Simferopol Russian empire |
| Date of death | June 27, 1976 (aged 70) |
| Place of death | Moscow |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Professions | composer , pianist |
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Biography
Zara Levin was born in the family of the owner of a small shop, an amateur violinist; mother was a sign teacher (teacher of the Russian language) at a school for deaf children. She studied at the gymnasium in Aleksandrovsk , then - at the Odessa Conservatory under Bronislava Dronseyko-Mironovich , where she met B. M. Reingbald . The apartment in the Odessa house where the Levins lived (3 Nezhinskaya Street ) was visited by Isaiah Braudo in 1920-1921; Boris Shekhter also lived in the courtyard of the house, through which Zara Levina soon met with Alexander Davidenko .
In 1925, she was admitted to the composer department of the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Reinhold Glier . At the entrance exam Levina showed her "Fourth Sonata." At the same time, she was accepted by a piano teacher at the Scriabin College, where at that time D. B. Kabalevsky also taught. Soon, Levin began to study piano under the direction of Felix Blumenfeld . (piano), and Nikolai Myaskovsky (composition). During the years of study at the conservatory, she joined the “Production Team of Students-Composers of the Moscow Conservatory” (Prokoll) - a creative group created by A. Davidenko; in 1929 she moved to the RAPM , where she was persecuted and persecuted, including for her performances with classical music .
For the final exam, Zara Levina wrote a "Poem about Lenin" for the orchestra, choir and soloists to the words of Alexei Surkov . The years after graduating from the conservatory (in 1932) and the liquidation of the RAPM were full of creative life, friendships with Sergey Prokofiev , Dmitry Shostakovich , Aram Khachaturian , Samuel Feinberg and other famous musicians; at this time she married Nicholas Chambery .
The main works of Levina are two piano concerts, two piano sonatas, two sonatas for violin and piano, Jewish rhapsody for piano, piano pieces. Levina also owns more than 200 romances to verses by Pushkin and Lermontov , Sergey Yesenin , Samuel Marshak , Evgeny Dolmatovsky , Avetik Isahakyan , Silva Kaputikyan , Hovsey Driza and others, as well as songs for children (to the verses of Emma Moshkovskaya ). A number of Levina's vocal compositions were recorded by Zara Dolukhanova , Natalya Shpiller , Victoria Ivanova (accompaniment of the composer), the first violin sonata was recorded by David Oistrakh , plays for cello by Svyatoslav Knushevitsky . In 1967 she was awarded the title "Honored Artist of the RSFSR."
She died in Moscow on June 27, 1976 .
Notes
- ↑ Yakovlev M.M. Levin Z. A. .. - The Musical Encyclopedia / Ed. Yu. V. Keldysh. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1976 .-- T. 3.
Literature
- Polyanovsky G. “Ode to the Soldier” by Zara Levina // “Musical Life”, 1963, No. 17.
- Mikhailovskaya N. Zara Levin. - M.: Soviet composer, 1969.
- Valentina Chambery . The music lived in the house. - M .: Agraf, 2002.
Links
- Information about the recordings of the broadcast of Levina’s works on the website of the State Fund for Television and Radio Programs (link unavailable) (link unavailable from 01/16/2014 [2029 days])