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Nadezhda Simonyan (February 26, 1922 - June 7, 1997) was a Russian composer[1] who wrote over 40 film scores[2] for movies, radio, and television, as well as chamber and orchestral works, and music for circus performances.[3]

Simonyan was born in Rostov-on-the-Don. She studied composition and piano at Leningrad Conservatory, where she received a diploma in 1950 and earned a medal. Her teachers included Oles Chishko and Venedikt Pushkov.[4]

In 1956, Simonyan wrote her first film soundtrack for Old Man Khottabych, a children’s film by Gennadii Kazanskii. Peter Rollberg described Simonyan’s strength as a composer as a “ . . . warm melodiousness that equally energizes cheerful, dramatic, and tragic episodes with a pragmatic, flexible approach to instrumentation.”[5] In 1960, Italian film maker Federico Fellini praised her soundtrack for the movie Lady with the Dog.[6] She often used smaller chamber orchestras, sometimes with folk instruments, for her film scores.[7]

Simonyan’s compositions included:

Chamber

• Sonata (violin and piano)[4]

Circus

• incidental music[4]

Film scores

• Adventures of Prince Florizel[8]
• Chief of Chukotka[9]
• Day of Happiness[9]
• Duel[4]
• Fifth Quarter[9]
• Flying Carpet[4]
• For No Apparent Reason[9]
• Green Dale[4]
• In the Town of S[9]
• Izhora Battalion[9]
• Lady with the Dog[10]
• Lyalka-Ruslan and His Friend Sanka[8]
• NIghts of Farewell (with Yuri Prokoviev)[8]
• Old Man Khottabych[5]
• Only One[8]
• Pani Mariya[8]
• Sinful Angel[8]
• Smart Things[8]
• Snow Queen[8]
• Strict Male Life[8]
• Twelve Months[9]
• Two Lines in Small Font[8]
• Vesenniye Perevyortyshi[8]
• While the Mountains Still Stand[8]

Orchestra

• Concerto for Piano and Orchestra[11]

Piano

• pieces[4]

Radio scores

• Golden Apples[4]
• On the Bank of Sevan[4]
• Story of Turkey[4]
• Three Bears[4]
• Year of My Birth[4]

Vocal

• Lake Sevan Cantata[4]
• romances[4]
• songs[4]

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References

На других языках

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- [en] Nadezhda Simonyan

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[ru] Симонян, Надежда Семёновна

Надежда Семёновна (Шогакат Симоновна) Симонян (26 февраля 1922 (1922-02-26), Ростов-на-Дону — 7 июня 1997, пос. Варшко, Приозерский район, Ленинградская область) — советский композитор. Автор музыки к 50 художественным фильмам, к драматическим спектаклям, к радио- и телепостановкам.

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