Rubin, Vladimir Ilyich

Vladimir Rubin was born on August 5, 1924 in Moscow, in the family of doctors Ilya Osipovich Rubin and Rosa Moiseyevna Geltser. In 1949 he graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Theater . His teachers were Alexander Goldenweiser (piano) , Pavel Lamm , Alexander Gedike , Maria Nemenova-Lunts , Nikolai Peiko (composition) . He collaborated, among other performers, with Leonid Ekimov .

Opera

• “Three Fat Men” (comic opera) ( libretto by Sergei Bogomazov) based on the novel by Yuri Olesha (1956; 2nd ed. - 1966)
• “July Sunday (Sevastopol, year 1942)” (musical tragedy) (libretto by V. Rubin; prose by L. Tolstoy, A. Platonov, verses by A. Tvardovsky, texts of lamentations, spells, ditties, genuine letters of the deceased) (1970)
• “The Winged Horseman” (libretto by V. Rubin and S. Bogomazov) based on the poetry of F. Garcia Lorca (dedicated to “My wife Maria”) (1980)
• "Chestnut" (libretto by V. Rubin) based on the novel by A. P. Chekhov (1987)
• “Scenes from the Hussar's Life” (“Night Visions”) (monoopera for bass, violin, cello and piano) based on the poetry of Denis Davydov (1987)
• “Alice's Album” (monoopera-madrigades for soprano and chamber orchestra) (libretto by V. Rubin) based on the works of L. Carroll, verses by V. Goethe, T. Moore, D. Joyce, O. Mandelstam, A. Blok (2003)

Oratorios

• “Wind songs” (verses by A. Blok) (dedicated to “My mother”) (1960)
• "Dreams of the Revolution" (poems by V. Lugovsky) (1964)
• “Evening Songs” (poems by Soviet poets) (dedicated to “In Memory of a Friend”) (1974)
• “The Legend of Baba Katerina and Her Son George” (folk words) (dedicated to V. Minin) (1976)
• “Alyonushkin Tales” (words by I. Bunin) (1983)
• “Songs of love and death” (to the verses of I. Bunin, V. Khodasevich, V. Nabokov, B. Pasternak and canonical texts)
• “The Bright Resurrection” (liturgical chants) (1988)
• “Song of Ascension” (penitential psalms to canonical texts)
• “Be merciful” (to the words of N. Gogol, E. Baratynsky, A. Blok, V. Khodasevich, A. Platonov, N. Zabolotsky, Russian soldiers' songs. And also to words from liturgical poetry) (2010)

Cantatas

• “Simple Songs” (poems by M. Karim) (1981)
• "Spring in the Forest" (poems by N. Zabolotsky) (1982-1984)

Other works

• Vocal cycle to verses by A. Pushkin (1950-1951)
• Children's Album for Piano (1962)
• “Little Cantata” for mezzo-soprano and piano to verses by A. Blok (1971)
• 7 songs to the words of M. Lermontov (1976)
• “Christmas Star” (concert for soprano, choir, harp and flute) (part 2 - to the words of B. Pasternak) (1979)
• concert for mixed choir to the words of I. Bunin (1988)
• “Guardian Angel (12 visions of the menacing age)” - vocal-symphonic cycle to verses by N. Baratashvili, A. Tsereteli, B. Brecht, A. Blok, O. Mandelshtam, V. Nabokov, A. Tvardovsky (2007)
• 10 poems for the youthful choir a cappella (among them “On the primers”, words by N. Nekrasov), etc.
• “Sorrowful Songs” - a small cantata for soprano and piano to the verses by F. Tyutchev, A. Akhmatova, A. Tarkovsky, E. Rubina, M. Petrova (2012)

Radio Music

• 1953 - L. Lagin "The Old Man Hottabych"
• 1954 - J. Drd "Angels of Pan Gromek"
• 1954 - Y. Olesha “Three Fat Men”
• 1955 - E. Voynich "Gadfly"
• 1956 - A. Gaidar "Timur and his team"
• 1958 - I. Turgenev "Spring Water"
• 1961 - A. Green "Scarlet Sails"
• 1965 - M. Lermontov "Taman"
• 1969 - A. Chekhov "House with a mezzanine"
• 1969-1970 - “Club of famous captains”
• 1975 - I. Turgenev "Asya"
• 1976 - R. Rollan "Jean Christophe. Childhood"
• 1977 - M. Lermontov “Princess Mary”
• 1981 - M. Karim "Long, long childhood"

Music for a radio performance based on the story of N. Pechersky “The Red Carriage”. A song based on poems by Bogomazov “A man was walking in the taiga”. Performed by Vladimir Troshin.

Movie Music

• 1958 - There were soldiers ...
• 1960 - Alyoshkin love
• 1960 - Dead Souls
• 1964 - To me, Mukhtar!
• 1964 - First Snow
• 1964 - The Tale of the Boy-Kibalchish
• 1966 - The Lost
• 1967 - Places are quiet
• 1967 - Nikolai Bauman
• 1968 - Love of Serafim Frolov
• 1973 - Life on Sinful Earth
• 1973 - Paradise apples
• 1976 - Schedule for tomorrow
• 1987 - Riders (movie almanac)
• 1991 - Blood for Blood
• 1992 - The childhood of Nikita ; Gracious sovereigns

• State Prize of the RSFSR named after M. I. Glinka (1972) - for the oratorio "July Sunday"
• Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1977)
• People's Artist of Russia ( 1995 ) ^[1]
• Order of Honor ( 2004 ) ^[2]

• Rubin Vladimir on the Internet Movie Database