Nadezhda Simonyan


Nadezhda Simonyan was a Russian composer, who wrote over 40 film scores for movies, radio, and television, as well as chamber and orchestral works, and music for circus performances.
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.
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.” In 1960, Italian film maker Federico Fellini praised her soundtrack for the movie The [Lady with the Dog |Lady with the Dog]. She often used smaller chamber orchestras, sometimes with folk instruments, for her film scores.

Chamber

  • ''Sonata''

    Circus

  • incidental music

    Film scores

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

    Orchestra

  • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

    Piano

  • pieces

    Radio scores

  • Golden Apples
  • On the Bank of Sevan
  • Story of Turkey
  • Three Bears
  • ''Year of My Birth''

    Vocal

  • Lake Sevan Cantata
  • romances
  • songs