Assumption, Victor Alexandrovich

V.A. Uspensky was born on August 19 (31), 1879 in Kaluga. In 1898, he graduated from the Orenburg Military Cadet Corps. In the years 1900-1904 he served in the Caucasus. In 1913 he graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in composition with A.K. Lyadov .

Since 1918 V.A. Uspensky lived in Tashkent , was engaged in the study of the musical culture of the peoples of Central Asia. In difficult and sometimes life-threatening conditions, he conducted eight ethnographic expeditions in Central Asia. Based on their results, a number of musical collections of traditional folk Uzbek, Turkmen and Tajik music was compiled. In 1923, Ouspensky made the first record of Shashmakom in Bukhara (part of the tanbur and usuli). "Shashmakom" was published in 1924.

In 1925-1929 he conducted three folklore expeditions in Turkmenistan, where he recorded more than 350 folk songs and instrumental plays. V. A. Uspensky is the author of the scientific works “Turkmen Music” (together with V. M. Belyaev), “Music to the texts of Alisher Navoi ”, “Uzbek Vocal Music” and many others.

In 1931, V. A. Uspensky led a musical and ethnographic expedition to the Ferghana Valley, where he recorded Uzbek and Tajik folk music.

In 1932-1949, he worked as a researcher, head of the music cabinet at the Institute of Art Studies in Tashkent, where he was engaged in musical ethnographic studies, combining this work with teaching at the People’s Conservatory in Tashkent in 1918-1922, where he taught harmony, and at a music school in Tashkent in 1928-1934. Since 1936, he taught at the Tashkent Conservatory, of which he was a professor since 1936, he taught musical and theoretical subjects there and was dean of the musical and theoretical faculty. In 1943, V. A. Uspensky became a doctor of art history.

V.A. Uspensky died on October 9, 1949 and was buried at the Botkin cemetery of the city.

V. A. Uspensky is the author of the Uzbek musical drama “Farhad and Shirin”, written by him in 1936, which in 1941 he and the composer G. A. Mushel transformed into an opera of the same name (1936, Tashkent, 2nd edited by G. Mushel, instrumentation partially by S. Zweifel (Gorchakov)).

Ouspensky wrote works for a symphony orchestra, choir, and piano. His treatment of Uzbek folk songs “throws a bridge between the centuries-old culture of one-voice music and polyphony” according to Yu. G. Kon.

Ouspensky also wrote a number of talented works on copyright themes in the spirit of Uzbek folk, for example, music for the play "Mukanna" by the Uzbek poet and playwright Hamid Alimjan (1943), which was staged at the Uzbek Drama Theater. Khamza in Tashkent, “Lyric Poem” in memory of A. Navoi (1947) for a symphony orchestra, an ensemble of Uzbek folk instruments (nai, koshnai , chang, doira, safail), female and three male voices; for a symphony orchestra - Uzbek poem-rhapsody (1944), Lyric poem in memory of Alisher Navoi (with Uzbek folk instructors and lead vocalists, 1947), Four melodies of the peoples of Central Asia (1934), Turkmen capriccio (1945); for the piano - Novella (1947); for choir and piano - “To battle, heroes” (words of Chusti, 1941), “Marching March” (1941); music for dramatic performances, including Yoriltash by S. Sagdulla (1943, Uzbek Youth Theater, Tashkent).

V. A. Uspensky was the author of a number of scientific works on the history and theory of traditional Turkmen and Uzbek music: “Turkmen music” (jointly with V. M. Belyaev ). Volume 1. M., 1928 ^[1] , “Music to the texts of A. Navoi” (1940), “Uzbek vocal music” (1950).

V. A. Uspensky was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor.

He named the specialized children's music school at the Tashkent Conservatory.

• Encyclopedia mail.ru. Uspensky Victor Alexandrovich (inaccessible link)
• Uspensky Victor Alexandrovich
• G. N. Uspenskaya. “Tashkent is a beautiful era”, St. Petersburg, “The New World of Art”. 2008, 280 p., P. 84.