Dmitri Smirnov (composer)

Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (Russian: Дмитрий Николаевич Смирнов; born November 2, 1948 in Minsk ) is a Russian composer.

Life

Dmitry Smirnov was born the son of opera singers. The family first moved to Ulan -Ude, Buryat Republic ( Central Asia), then after Frunze, Kyrgyzstan, where Smirnov spent his childhood. In 1967 he began studying music at the Conservatory in Moscow. There he learned composition with Nikolai Sedelnikow, instrumentation with Edison Denisov and analysis at Juri Kholopov. In 1970 he made ​​the acquaintance of Philip Herschkowitzs, the übergesiedelten from Vienna to Moscow Webern students. 1972 ended Smirnov his studies and worked since 1973 as an editor in the publishing Sovetsky compositor. In 1976 his solo harp for the first prize at the International Harp Competition of the week in Maastricht and he became known internationally. From 1981 - 1993 Smirnov worked as a freelance composer. During this time, in 1991, he moved to Britain. In 1992 he received a scholarship from the St. John College, and was from 1993 to 1997 Visiting Professor at the University of Keele, as his wife, the composer Jelena Olegovna Firsova. There he was composer in residence. Since 1998, Dmitri Smirnov has worked freelance again.

Work (selection)

Opera

  • Tiriel (1989 )

Choral work

  • Two choirs by Alexander Blok

Orchestra music

  • Mozart variations
  • Pastorale
  • Symphony No. 1 "The Seasons"
  • Tiriel
  • Between Scylla and Charybdis

Konzertwerkstatt

  • Concerto No. 2
  • Triple

Ensemble

  • Elegy in memoriam Edison Denisov
  • Portrait
  • Mourning canon "In memoriam Igor Stravinsky "

Solo work

  • Three Dances
  • Monologue
  • Solo for Harp
  • Solo for trumpet
  • Music of the Spheres
  • Two magic squares

Vokalsymphonik

  • The Song of Songs
  • Symphony No. 2

Chamber Music

  • Song of Farewell
  • The river of life ( Blake - image IV)
  • The Seasons
  • Three Dances
  • Epitaph
  • Fantasia
  • Piano Trio 1 & 2
  • Lyrical composition
  • Six Poems by Alexander Blok
  • Six Poems of William Blake
  • Serenade
  • String Quartet No. 2
  • Sonata for Bassoon & Piano
  • The Visions of Coleridge
  • Trio sacrum
  • Wonderful Stories
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