Kabalevsky music

[rlefebvr]

I just heard a very nice little piece by Kabalevsky called little song OP 27 No1.

It is a very very very easy piece not worthy of most people here, but I found it very different from what we usually hear and was wondering if all his music had the same quality of sound.

Also wondering a little about his history.

[bernhard]

Besides composing very nice (and superior) pedagogical pieces, Kabalevsky also produced quite a number of excellent pieces.

Have a look here:

https://www.boosey.co.uk/pages/cr/composer/composer_main.asp?composerid=2777&langid=1&ttype=BIOGRAPHY&ttitle=Biography (short biography)

https://www.classiccat.net/kabalevsky_d/ (you can hear some MP3 of his “adult” pieces)

https://www.sikorski.de/en/frameloader.html?frame=http%3A//www.sikorski.de/composers/composer121.html

https://www.amacviolins.com/Violin_Family/history/composer/biography/KABALEVSKY,%20Dmitri/KABALEVSKY,%20Dmitri%20%20(1904-1987).htm

https://www.searchmusicnetwork.com/Composition_Composers_K_Kabalevsky,_Dmitri_Borisovich.html
(a few more links)

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[rlefebvr]

This guy really rocks. I did not know there was a whole slew of them in that time period that went against the "norm" of classical music.

I don't know that I could listen to a lot of it for an extended period of time, but it sure open's up your eyes to different possibilities.

[BoliverAllmon]

yeah kabalevsky wrote some really good stuff. Kabalevsky and shostakovich were commissioned to write the Russian national anthem at one time. They wrote it, well kabalevsky wrote it and shostakovich orchestrated (or maybe the other way around). when they played it for stalin, stalin made some suggestions to it. when he asked how long it would take for them to do "fix it". Shostakovich told him 5 hrs. (though he said he could do it in 5 min.). Stalin was insulted by this, because he thought it should take alot longer, therefore he assumed that shostakovich and kabalevsky weren't taking this seriously enough and chose some other composer to start over and write the national anthem.

boliver

[Brian Healey]

I really like Kabalevsky. He's got some interesting pieces which are worth playing just for playing's sake that also make good etudes/teaching pieces. You can't ask for much more from a composer. He composed pieces that may be technically easy, but some of which I still play just because I like them.