Terentyev, Boris Mikhailovich (composer)

He was born on January 15 ( January 28 according to the new style) in 1913 in Odessa.

He began to study music at the Kiev Conservatory (now the P.I. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine ) in the piano class under Professor G.N. Beklemishev . After graduating from the conservatory in 1931, he began composing music, deciding that composition was his vocation. He left for Moscow and entered the Moscow Conservatory , where R. M. Glier was his teacher. Already studying at the conservatory, he began to write romances, sonatas for piano and symphony. Boris Terentyev quickly entered the conservative milieu, where A. Khachaturian , T. Khrennikov , V. Muradeli , B. Mokrousov became his friends.

After graduating from the Moscow Conservatory in 1937, the musician already had experience in composer work. In 1937-1939 he was the musical director of the Central Documentary Film Studio. In 1939-1940, he worked as a consultant to the Moscow Repertory Committee. With the outbreak of World War II, Terentyev volunteered to join the Red Army and, together with composer Yevgeny Zharkovsky, was sent to the Political Administration of the Northern Fleet. Having established contact with poets who were in the Northern Fleet, among whom were A. Zharov, Y. Rodionov, N. Flerov and others, Terentyev joined the work of naval ensembles: he wrote songs and choirs for them, composed music for performances of the naval theater. More than once he visited warships, which filled his songs with concrete content that sounded on the ships, printed on the pages of naval newspapers, and came out with leaflets. In the terrible years of the war, among the new Soviet songs were written by B. M. Terentyev, mostly dedicated to sailors: “Sailors go to battle”, “Vest”, “Glory to the sailors”, “Parting”, “Two sailors”.

Returning to Moscow in 1945, the composer joined the creative and public work of the Union of Composers of the USSR : he performed with author’s concerts, took part in concerts and amateur festivals. Having maintained contact with the army and navy, he traveled to units and ships, and became chairman of the military-chef commission of the Union of Composers. Member of the CPSU since 1945.

In 1948-1950, he was executive secretary of the section of mass genres of the Union of Composers of the USSR. In 1963-1979, he was chairman of the board of the USSR Music Fund. Since 1975 - secretary of the board of the Union of Composers of the RSFSR, and since 1979 - chairman of the board of the Moscow organization of the Union of Composers of the RSFSR and secretary of the board of the Union of Composers of the USSR.

Boris Terentyev tried his hand in the genre of opera and operetta - he created several works that were staged on the stages of Soviet theaters, including operettas - “ Faithful Means ” (text by E. Shatunovsky ), “ Stone of Happiness ” (text by V. Kracht ) and “ The First Swallow ” (text by V. Vinnikov and V. Kracht) and the opera “Maxim” (for children, 1976) ^[2] , “Little Brother” (1978).

He died on April 17, 1989 in Moscow. He was buried at Kuntsevsky cemetery .

Laureate of the silver medal. A.V. Alexandrova. ^[3]

He stole and presented, as his work, the 19th-century Ukrainian romance “In the garden of the mainstream music” (which in the collection “Ukrainian Folk Romans” in 1961 has such a status and is presented), known in Russia to the words “Here’s someone down the hill”

• 1970 - Traffic Light
• 1975 - Aw! - short story “And they approached the matchmaker’s hut ... Or the adventures of the writer Senya in search of the word hidden”

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