BRUSILOVSKY Yevgeny Grigorievich

Biography

(12.09.1905, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Empire - 09.05.1981, Moscow, USSR) - Soviet composer. People's Artist of the Kazakh SSR (1936); Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1948); Kurmangazy State Prize of the Kazakh SSR (1967).

1922-1924 - student of the P. I. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory.

1926-1931 - student of the Leningrad State Conservatory in the composition class, teacher M. O. Steinberg.

1933 - The Leningrad Union of Composers offered Brusilovsky the work in Alma-Ata.

1934-1938 - musical director of the Kazakh musical theater. His life's work was collecting and recording of the Kazakh folk songs and kuis. During the three years of his stay in Kazakhstan, the composer recorded about 250 songs and kuis, transcription of more than 60 was done. He wrote music for the following operas: "Kyz-Zhibek" (1934), "Zhalbyr" (1935), "Er-Targyn" (1937), "Aiman-Sholpan" (1938), "Altyn Astyk" (1940), "Alga Guard! » (1940), "Amangeldy" (together with M. Tulebayev, 1945), "Dudaray" (1953), "Heirs" (1962). Composer of the music of the National Anthem of the Kazakh SSR (1945, together with M. Tulebayev and L. A. Hamidi).

In 1970 he moved to Moscow, but his creativity remained inextricably linked with Kazakh music. The author of the ballet "Kozy-Korpesh and Bayan-Sulu" (1971) in the Abay SAOBT staged by D. Abirov.

1967-1970 - created three notebooks of "Choreographic Pieces".

Awards: Lenin Order (1936); "Badge of Honor" Order (1936); Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1956).