When was dmitri kabalevsky born

While Kabalevsky wrote various kinds of music, he was most noted in Russia for his vocal songs, cantatas, and operas. Here in the United States, Kabalevsky was known for his orchestral works. He frequently traveled overseas as a member of the Soviet Committee of the Defense of Peace and promoted friendship between the Soviet Union and other countries. By the 's Kabalevsky was appointed as an assistant instructor of composition at the Moscow Conservatory, and by he was a full professor.

This period until is considered to be Kabalevsky's strongest. During this time he wrote much incidental music for radio and stage. In he wrote his first opera, Colas Breugnon , which was based on the novel by Romain Rolland; it first appeared in and it was an immediate success It is to be noted that Kabalevsky himself became dissatisfied with its dramatic structure, so he revised it in both and Dmitri Kabalevsky joined the Communist Party in ; by he had received the Medal of Honour from the Soviet government for his musical prowess.

It was during this period of time that Kabalevsky lent his musical talents to the war effort. In , Kabalevsky's three huge works: Vast Motherland , Revenger of the People and Into the Fire , were written to inspire heroism and patriotism among the Soviets. His popular The Taras Family used out-taken music from the opera Into the Fire , and became a huge success.

It became a success even in light of the party decree of music in Russia, probably because Kabalevsky's music had become more lyrical in nature. In Kabalevsky was initially included in the bad list of "anti-Soviet" composers by the communist censor Andrei Zhdanov. By Kabalevsky repented to the Communist party and was cleared, but his teacher 'Nikolai Miaskovsky', and his famous colleagues Sergei Prokofiev , and Dmitri Shostakovich were viciously attacked by censor Zhdanov.

In he was made Secretary of the Soviet Composers Union and remained in the leadership for 35 years. In he was Chairman of Commission in charge of music that was previously banned. Kabalevsky made a decision to keep the ban on 'Lady Makbeth of Mtsensk', an opera by Dmitri Shostakovich , which was already under the ban from Kabalevsky approved the ban with his hypocritical comment that Shostakovich's opera was showing a murder and infidelity which was against the norms of Soviet morality.

Kabalevsky wrote music scores for several Soviet films, including 'Ivan Pavlov' , a film about Doctor Pavlov and his research on conditioning dogs and humans to sounds, lights, and food. During the 's, 's, and 's Kabalevsky pushed his own educational system based on conditioning children to certain songs and marches through listening, singing, and marching to music.

Instead of playing instruments and developing personal skills, children were lectured about Kabalevsky's theory of "three whales" of music, and listened to the recommended songs.

Millions of children in the Soviet Union became conditioned to official marches, parades and political demonstrations under officially approved music and Soviet symbolics.

Such ideas were not accepted in the Baltic Republics with their deep culture of choral singing on weekends, or in Ukraine and Georgia, where folk music runs deep in every family's tradition. Kabalevsky himself was a smooth lecturer and politician; his system was funded by the Soviet government and was taught by trained instructors in thousands of Soviet public schools.