Gibalin, Boris Dmitrievich

Boris Gibalin
Boris Gibalin
basic information
Full name	Boris Dmitrievich Gibalin
Date of Birth	April 11 (24), 1911
Place of Birth	Nyazepetrovsk city, ; Chelyabinsk region
Date of death	May 5, 1982 (71 years old)
Place of death	Sverdlovsk
Buried	;
A country	Russian empire ; the USSR
Professions	composer
Instruments	piano

Boris Dmitrievich Gibalin ( 1911 - 1982 ) - Soviet composer , professor of the Ural Conservatory named after M.P. Mussorgsky . Honored Artist of the RSFSR and the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

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Biography

Boris Gibalin was born on April 11 (24), 1911 in the city of Nyazepetrovsk, Chelyabinsk Region .

In his youth, he “voiced” silent films , speaking in working agitation teams. In 1928-1932 he worked as an accompanist in Zlatoust , since 1932 - music editor of the Ural Radio.

In 1932 he graduated from the Sverdlovsk School of Music in the composition class of V. Kh. Zolotarev, in 1939 - from the Ural State Conservatory (he graduated from the composing department in the class of MP P. Frolov as the first and with honors). Thesis - “The First Symphony”.

During the Great Patriotic War, he worked in the Sverdlovsk Regional Defense Theater and at the same time studied at the graduate school of the Moscow Conservatory (director - N. Ya. Myaskovsky , graduated from it at the end of the war at the Ural Conservatory under the direction of M.P. Frolov.

Until 1948 he taught composition at the Ural Conservatory.

In 1948-1959 , B.D. Gibalin worked as the artistic director of the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic , in 1959-1962 - the artistic director of the Ural Folk Choir .

From 1963 to 1975 he was rector of the Ural State Conservatory. Mn Mussorgsky, in 1971 was approved in the academic title of professor in the department of composition. He made a significant contribution to the training of Buryat and Mongolian composers.

B.D. Gibalin created more than 70 works of various genres of symphonic, vocal-choral, instrumental music.

Boris Gibalin is also known as a public figure: for seven years (1952-1959) he was elected chairman of the Sverdlovsk branch of the Union of Composers of the RSFSR , in 1968-1976 he was a member of the Expert Council of the Higher Attestation Commission, and in 1966-1976 he was a member of the Commission under the Council of Ministers RSFSR for the award of State Prizes.

Boris Gibalin died on May 5, 1982 in Sverdlovsk . He was buried at the Shirokorechensky cemetery ^[1] .

Recognition and awards

1956 - Honorary title " Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR ".
1971 - Order of the October Revolution , Medal of Friendship of the Mongolian People's Republic.
1971 - the title "Honored Artist of the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic" ..

Artwork

Opera

1967 - "Comrade Andrei" about Ya.M. Sverdlov , staged by the Sverdlovsk Opera and Ballet Theater
1976 - “Fyodor Protasov” based on the drama by L.N. Tolstoy's "Living Corpse"
1977 - "Testament" based on the novel of the same name by G. Markov
1980 - “Do not extinguish the fire, Prometheus!” Based on the poem of M. Karim .
Opera for children (for performance on the radio):
- 1936 - "On the Fisherman and the Fish"
- 1937 - The Turnip
- 1938 - The Gingerbread Man
- 1942 - Cat, Rooster and Fox
- 1944 - "About the stupid little mouse"
- 1945 - The Alyonushka
- "Zaykino Mountain"

Vocal-symphonic works

1946 - cantata "Thoughts on the Motherland", words by S. Stalsky
1948 - Suite “Ural Day”, words by E. Ruzhansky
1949 - Suite "Happy Land", folk words
1950 - Suite “Ural were”
1952 - cantata "Fields of relatives", words by E. Khorinsky
1957 - cantata "Ural Dawns"
1969 - cantata "Spring", the words of V. Mayakovsky
1970 - cantata "Rodniki" (words of the people)
1972 - cantata "Spring and the city"

Choral works

1945 - cycle "Four Seasons", the words of F. Tyutchev
1947 - cycle "Fables", words by I. Krylov
1962 - cycle “Happiness of difficult roads”, words by L. Tatyanicheva ( a capella )
1965 - cycle "Eternal Flame", words by A. Prokofiev (a capella)
1970 - cycle “Places, sacred for ever”, words by B. Filippov and W. Brown

Chamber vocal cycles

1945 - “Letters to the Far,” words by A. Surkov
1954 - “Native”, words by N. Rylenkov
1958 - I Love
1962 - The Pages of Poetry
1964 - Rowan Light
1969 - 1970 - “Songs of Troubled Years”
1970 - “Years of the Komsomol”, words by E. Khorinsky
1973 - "Countrymen"
1974 - “Both clear and cloudy days”

Songs

1958 - “Calling Mount Magnetic”
1963 - a collection of songs for the folk choir "Ural Words"

Works for symphony orchestra and folk instrument orchestra

1939 , 1956 , 1978 - symphonies
1939 - suite “Ural songs”
Ural Dumka

Chamber Instrumental

1953 - string quartet "In memory of Bazhov"
1968 - string quartet on Ural and Czech folk songs

Notes

↑ Citizens of Yekaterinburg buried in the Shirokorechensky cemetery. Biographical articles: G // Komarsky V. Ya. Departed to Eternity. Shirokorechenskoe cemetery in Yekaterinburg. - Yekaterinburg: Ural worker. - T. 1 (A - I) , vol. 1 .

Sources

Composers of the Urals. - Sverdlovsk, 1968
Composers of Yekaterinburg. - Ekaterinburg, 1998
The Musical Encyclopedia, vol. 1. - M., 1973

Links

Choral Dictionary (unavailable link from 06/14/2016 [1147 days])
Great biographical encyclopedia

[1] Citizens of Yekaterinburg buried in the Shirokorechensky cemetery. Biographical articles: G // Komarsky V. Ya. Departed to Eternity. Shirokorechenskoe cemetery in Yekaterinburg. - Yekaterinburg: Ural worker. - T. 1 (A - I) , vol. 1 .