STEPANOV Lev Borisovich

Biography

(1908, Tomsk - 1971, Moscow) - Soviet composer, pianist, Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1951), participant in the Great Patriotic War, was awarded medals, including "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

He gained the initial musical education as a pianist; graduated from the P.I. Tchaikovsky MSC in the composition class of N.Ya. Myaskovsky (1938).

From 1930 to 1933 - pianist-accompanist of Mosestrada and Radio Center, accompanist of the opera class of the P.I. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory; 1933-1935 - artistic director of the propaganda team of the Communist University of National Minorities of the West;

1935-1937 - concertmaster of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre;

1937-1941 - music director of the State Academic Folk Dance Ensemble of the USSR (led by I.A. Moiseyev).

Author of the operas and ballets staged at the leading theaters of the RSFSR. He composed music for the Kazakh ballet "The Dzungarian Gate", which premiered on July 15, 1957. A year later, the theater leadership decides to re-work the ballet, the music of L. Stepanov is completed by the young Kazakh composer N. Tlendiyev and the ballet conductor E. Manayev. Choreographer D. Abirov joins the director Y. Kovalev, and revives pantomime scenes and edits the Kazakh dances. In the new production, the ballet was called "On the way of Friendship", which premiered on July 5, 1958. In 1958 the ballet was presented at the Decade of Kazakh Art and Literature in Moscow.