Feltsman, Oscar Borisovich

Oscar Borisovich Feltsman was born on February 18, 1921 in Odessa in a Jewish family. Father - orthopedic surgeon Boris Iosifovich Feltsman, mother - Tsilya Abramovna Feltsman (1899-1984). In 1933, according to the sketches of B. I. Feltsman, the construction of a children's sanatorium for 350 beds “Lustdorf” near Odessa for patients with osteoarticular tuberculosis, which Boris Iosifovich headed at the end of construction, was begun. ^[2] Father played the piano professionally. From early childhood, Oscar Feltsman did not miss a single concert of musicians who performed and toured in Odessa.

At the age of five, Oscar Feltsman began playing the violin with the famous teacher Peter Stolyarsky , but soon moved to the piano class. He learned to play the piano with Berta Reingbald , who studied with Emil Gilels , Tatyana Goldfarb and other famous pianists. Oscar Feltsman's first piano piece, Autumn, appeared a year later, when he was six years old. In 1939, O. Feltsman graduated from the school named after P. S. Stolyarsky, studied composition by Professor Nikolai Vilinsky . ^[3] In the years 1939-41 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory (composition class V. Ya. Shebalin ) ^[4] .

In 1941, Feltsman was evacuated to Novosibirsk , where at the age of 20 he was appointed secretary of the Siberian branch of the Union of Composers of the USSR. In Novosibirsk, Feltsman wrote music for the Philharmonic, the Leningrad Alexandrinsky Theater , worked as the head of the musical part of the Belarusian State Jewish Theater (BelGOSET). In the same period, Feltsman wrote an operetta based on the play by Valentin Kataev “Blue Handkerchief”, which was defeated in the newspaper Pravda .

In 1941, in Novosibirsk, Oscar Feltsman married a student of the conductor-choral faculty of the Moscow Conservatory Eugenia Petrovna Kaydanovskaya (1920-2000). He returned to Moscow with his wife in 1945 . Temporarily settled with relatives in Krivoarbatsky Lane .

In 1948, the Moscow theater of operetta premiered the musical comedy Air Castle. In 1952, two more premieres took place - at the Moscow Operetta Theater - Suvorochka, and at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater - The Noise of the Mediterranean. Feltsman also began to write music for circus performances, pop shows, and performances for children by Natalia Sats .

In 1952, Oscar Feltsman wrote “Concert for violin and orchestra” in three parts.

In the same year, for the parody theater “Blue Bird”, he wrote his first song - “Motor Ship” to the verses of V. Dragunsky and L. Davidovich . In 1954, she was performed on television and recorded on the radio (released on a disc in 1956) Leonid Utesov .

The song “ Lilies of the Valley ”, written to the verses of Olga Fadeeva and first performed by Gelena Velikanova, gained great popularity. In the Soviet press, the song was recognized as philistine, ideologically untenable. However, his other songs were constantly heard on radio and in concerts.

In songwriting, Oscar Feltsman collaborated with various poets, including Andrei Voznesensky , Rasul Gamzatov , Evgeny Dolmatovsky , Mikhail Matusovsky , Igor Kokhanovsky , Mark Lisyansky , Lev Oshanin , Robert Rozhdestvensky , Vladimir Kharitonov , Igor Shaferan , Mikhail Tanich , V. Orlov, Naum Olev , Mikhail Ryabinin .

Feltsman’s songs were performed by masters of the Soviet and Russian pop: Leonid Utesov , Mark Bernes , Vladimir Troshin , Edita Piekha , Valentina Tolkunova , Veronika Kruglova , Joseph Kobzon , Muslim Magomayev , Eduard Gil , Yuri Gulyaev , Georg Ots , Mikhail Chuyev, Lev Leshenko , Kapitalina Lazar , Oleg Anofriev , Maria Pakhomenko , Leonid Serebrennikov , Irina Allegrova , Sofia Rotaru , Leonid Ekimov , Anna German and many others.

Feltsman’s songs performed by Edita Pieha were very popular and enjoyed: “The Great Sky”, “White Light”, “Danube Wreath”, “Manzherok”, “I Don't See Anything” and others. Feltsman called E. Piekha his favorite performer.

In 1973, Oscar Feltsman wrote the music for the operettas “Aunt Charlie”, “Old Houses” and “Let the Guitar Play” - all three went with great success at the Sverdlovsk Academic Theater of Musical Comedy . In the mid -1980s , Feltsman organized for his author’s concerts the instrumental ensemble “Moscow Lights” with the soloist Irina Allegrova .

In 1987, Oscar Feltsman wrote the vocal cycle "Songs of the Past", music for several Jewish folk songs in the text of the book "Songs of the Past. From Jewish Folk Poetry ”(translated by Naum Grebnev - M., 1986). The cycle of these songs was performed by Joseph Kobzon .

In the late 1990s , Feltsman wrote 12 songs to the verses of Yuri Garin. The composer performed them in Odessa at an author's concert during the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the city. These songs are performed including Alla Ioshpe and Stakhan Rakhimov , Klara Novikova .

Altogether Feltsman wrote 1,500 songs .

Oscar Feltsman also wrote a number of chamber works: “Ten romances to verses by Inna Lisnyanskaya ”, “A cycle of romances to verses by Marina Tsvetaeva ”, “A cycle of songs to verses by Chaim Bialik ”.

February 3, 2013 at 02:45 Oscar Feltsman died at the 92nd year of his life from heart failure at the Semashko Central Clinical Hospital ^[5] . Farewell took place in the House of the Union of Composers of Russia . He was buried on February 6, 2013 at the Novodevichy Cemetery .

• The son is the famous American pianist Vladimir Feltsman .
• Grandson - Daniel Feltsman.
• wife-Eugene Kaydanovskaya.

* Civil wife - Nina Vasilievna Karanova.

• “Motor ship” to poetry (words by Victor Dragunsky and Lyudmila Davidovich ) - isp. Leonid Utesov
• " Lilies of the valley " (lyrics by Olga Fadeeva ) - Spanish. Gelena Velikanova , Nina Dorda
• “Native eyes” (lyrics by Olga Fadeeva) - Georg Ots
• “My Black Sea ...” from the movie “ Sailor from the Comet” (lyrics by Mikhail Matusovsky ) - Spanish. Gleb Romanov , Georg Ots, Mikhail Chuev
• “My Vasya” (lyrics by George Khodosov ) - Spanish. Nina Dorda, Tamara Kravtsova
• “Wreath of the Danube” (lyrics by Eugene Dolmatovsky ) - Spanish. Edita Piekha and the ensemble "Friendship"
• “ Hey, roulate ” (words by Vladimir Voinovich ) - Spanish. Gelena Velikanova
• “Good morning” (lyrics by Olga Fadeeva) - Spanish. Mark Bernes
• “I believe, friends” (“Fourteen minutes before the start”) (words by Vladimir Voinovich) - Spanish. Vladimir Troshin , Georg Ots
• “A song walks in a circle” (words by Igor Shaferan and Mikhail Tanich ) - Spanish. Edward Gil , Nina Dorda
• “White Light” (“A white light has come down on you like a wedge ...”) (words by Igor Shaferan and Mikhail Tanich) - Spanish. Edita Piekha and the ensemble "Friendship", Joseph Kobzon , Frida Bokkara , Kapitalina Lazarenko, Olga Voronets , Irina Allegrova
• “I don’t see anything” (lyrics by Leo Oshanin ) - Spanish. Edita Piekha, Irina Brzhevskaya , Veronika Kruglova
• “My friend’s song” (lyrics by Leo Oshanin) - Spanish. Mark Bernes
• "Manzherok" (words by Naum Olev ) - isp. Edita Pieha
• “The Great Sky ” (by Robert Rozhdestvensky ) - Spanish. Edita Pieha, Mark Bernes, Muslim Magomayev , Edward Gil
• “The Ballad of Colors” (lyrics by Robert Rozhdestvensky) - Spanish. Maria Kodryanu , Joseph Kobzon, Olga Voronets, Muslim Magomayev
• "Song of old age" (lyrics by Robert Rozhdestvensky) - Spanish. Leonid Utesov
• “And love is like a song” (words by Vladimir Kharitonov ) - Spanish. Maya Kristalinskaya
• “Is that a man” (lyrics by Rasul Gamzatov , per. Yakov Kozlovsky ) - Spanish. Muslim Magomaev
• “ Half an hour before the spring ” (lyrics by Naum Olev ) - isp. VIA Pesnyary , soloist - Vladimir Mulyavin
• “Only to you” (lyrics by Robert Rozhdestvensky) - Spanish. Sofia Rotaru , Christina Orbakaite
• "Island of childhood" (words by Mikhail Ryabinin ) - Spanish. Mikhail Boyarsky , Torba-on-Steep group
• “Where do you find time?” (Lyrics by Mikhail Ryabinin) - Spanish. Mikhail Boyarsky
• "Old Dumas" (words by Mikhail Ryabinin) - Spanish. Mikhail Boyarsky
• “Believe in yourself!” (Lyrics by Natalya Shemyatenkova ) - Spanish. Mikhail Boyarsky
• “Plant a tree” (verse by Simon Osiashvili ) - isp. Mikhail Boyarsky
• "Weather Bureau" (n. Nauma Oleva) - Spanish. Nikolai Karachentsov
• "Christmas Tree" (words by Igor Shaferan) - performed by Zoya Kharabadze (from the cartoon " New Year's Tale ")

In 1992, Oleg Nesterov with his band Megapolis recorded a cover version of the song “Lilies of the Valley” with a new German text called “Karl-Marx-Stadt”. Created specifically for the upcoming tour in Germany, this version has become very popular in the homeland ^[6] .

• Sailor from the Comet (1958)
• And in the Pacific ... (1973)

Honorary titles:

• honorary title "Honored Artist of the Chechen-Ingush Republic"
• Honorary title " Honored Artist of the RSFSR " ( April 10, 1972 ) - for his merits in the field of Soviet musical art ^[7]
• Honorary title "People's Artist of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic" ( 1975 )
• Honorary title " People's Artist of the RSFSR " ( September 4, 1989 ) - for great services in the field of Soviet art ^[8]

Also has the following awards:

• Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, II degree ( February 14, 2011 ) - for outstanding contribution to the development of domestic musical art and many years of creative activity ^[9]
• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" III degree ( February 7, 2006 ) - for his great contribution to the development of domestic musical culture and many years of creative activity ^[10]
• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree ( February 19, 2001 ) - for his great contribution to the development of musical art ^[11]
• Order of Friendship ( February 14, 1996 ) - for a great personal contribution to the development of Russian art ^[12]
• Memorial sign on the "Square of Stars" ( March 5, 1999 ) ^[13]

• The songwriter Yuri Garin dedicated Oscar Feltsman the song “Oscar Borisovich” (music by A. Cheskis). The song was performed by Garin himself at a concert dedicated to the anniversary of Feltsman ^[14] .

• Oscar Feltsman. Not just memories. - M .: OLMA-Press , 2000 .-- 304 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 5-224-01068-3 .

• Seeing the maestro: Oscar Feltsman said goodbye to his songs. Video.
• The genius of the easy genre. Obituary and photo album.
• This song was sung in space. Composer Oscar Feltsman passed away
• Composer Oscar Feltsman will celebrate the 90th anniversary in the circle of pop stars - RIA Novosti, February 18, 2011 (Russian)
• OSCAR FELTSMAN: “Ignorance is the misfortune of our pop industry” (Russian)
• Oscar Feltsman on the radio "Echo of Moscow" (Russian)
• Oscar Feltsman on sovmusic.ru (Russian)
• Feltsman Oscar Borisovich - animator.ru
• The famous composer, a native of Odessa, is 90 years old (Russian)
• Composer Oscar Feltsman on YouTube (Russian)
• Anniversary interview in Novye Izvestia February 18, 2011 (Russian)
• Oscar Feltsman. Music of Victory Oscar Feltsman's Memoirs of Military Youth (Russian)
• http://paulmauriat.ru/oscarfeltsman.htm Oscar Feltsman memorial page
• Feltsman's songs sound in space Interview Jewish.ru (Russian)
• Oscar Feltsman - “From Bach to Offenbach ...” Report from the evening in memory of the composer 04/29/2014 at TsMMK them. M. Glinka (Russian)
• Oscar Feltsman
• Portal STMEGI. Sergey Kolmanovsky: Oscar Feltsman’s mistake. Feature article