Vladimir Shainsky

Vladimir Yakovlevich Schainski (Russian: Владимир Яковлевич Шаинский; born December 12, 1925 in Kiev ) is a Russian and Soviet composer. Fame at home and abroad he gained with his children's songs for Soviet animated films, such as Antoschka and the songs of the crocodile Gena Cheburashka in the movies since 1969.

Life and work

Vladimir Schainski received a musical education at the Conservatory, which he 1943, after wartime relocation of his family to Tashkent (Uzbekistan ), graduated already as a student in Kiev. Thereafter, he served in the Central Asian region to the end of the war in the Soviet Army. After the war he continued his education initially continued in the Orchestra Faculty of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. After that, he worked in various orchestras, including from 1949 to the famous jazz singer and bandleader Leonid Utyosov ( 1895-1982 ).

1962 to 1965 he studied at the Faculty of the Academy of Music composers Baku (Baku, Azerbaijan ), where he was part of the folk music class of Kara Karajew ( 1918-1982 ). During this time, his compositions with a string quartet (1963) and a symphony (1965 ) began.

Opened in 1969, the Soviet animation studio Soyuzmultfilm its new range Merry Carousel (Russian Весёлая карусель ) and filmed for the first episode the song Antoschka of Schajinski (Text: Yuri Entin ). The song became very popular in the Soviet Union. Up to the present it has in Russia Folk music, and it reached in the video portal Youtube over ten million views.

Since 1971 Schainski wrote the songs for the Cheburashka - animated films. Two of them, the song of crocodile Gena (1971) and Blue Wagon ( 1973) gained enormous fame after she performed the choirboy Serjoscha Paramonow with the Great Children's Choir of the Soviet television and radio. Schainskis songs included several times to program the television music festivals song of the year, which was a highly acclaimed End-of- mission in the Soviet Union.

Schainski wrote a total of about 300 songs, mainly for children's cartoons, of which are known in the subsequent generations numerous even after the end of the Soviet Union. Since the 1970s, he also created the music for feature films and a documentary. In 1974 he composed a children's opera, later several musicals - two of them by the end of the Soviet Union, 1993 and 1994.

Awards

In the GDR, Vladimir Schainski received at the beginning of his fame the Medal for German - Soviet Friendship in Silver (1971 ) and gold (1972 ) and the Art Prize of the GDR ( 1976). In the Soviet Union he was the carrier of high prices and orders, including the State Prize of the USSR ( 1981), the Komsomol Prize ( 1980) and the award for People's Artist of Russia ( 1986). Even in post- Soviet Russia, he was honored for his work, including by awarding the Order of Friendship ( 1995), the Honorary North ( formerly Decoration of the Soviet Union) and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland ( stage IV, 2005; 's second highest state award of Russia). Vladimir Schainski was married twice (1950 and 1962) and has two sons from two marriages (* 1971, * 1987) and a daughter (* 1991). He is a member of the United Russia party, which supports the Russian President Vladimir Putin. By 2000 Schainski lived in Moscow, then in Israel and since 2004 in San Diego, USA.