Vladimir Shcherbachov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Shcherbachov was a Soviet composer.
He studied with Maximilian Steinberg, Anatoly Lyadov, and Jāzeps Vītols at the St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1908 to 1914. While there he also worked as a pianist for Sergey Diaghilev and taught theory. He served in World War I and then worked in Soviet government music positions. In 1918-1923 he worked as a lecturer and ran the musical department of the Narkompros. He later became a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory and the Tbilisi Conservatory. He counted Boris Arapov, Vasily Velikanov, Evgeny Mravinsky, Valery Zhelobinsky, Gavriil Popov, Valerian Bogdanov-Berezovsky, Pyotr Ryazanov, and Mikhail Chulaki among his pupils, as well as various others.
Works
- Anna Kolossova, opera ;
- Tabachny Kapitan, operetta ;
- Five symphonies:
- *No. 1 ;
- *No. 2 ;
- *No. 3 ;
- *No. 4 ;
- *No. 5 ;
- Nonet for 7 instruments, voice and dancer ;
- Suite for string quartet and other chamber music;
- Two piano sonatas and other piano works;
- Various Romances;
- Film music:
- *The Thunderstorm ;
- *Peter I ;
- *Polkovodets Suvorov ;
- Two Suites:
- * The Thunderstorm;
- *Peter I.