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The
Musical Sketches on Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin for guitar and
chamber ensemble is a twentieth century commentary on this famous nineteenth
century novel in verse, imbued in the distinctive mood of the societal and
cultural atmosphere that inspired it. Composed in 1990 the work was first
performed in Leningrad on May 18, 1991, by Ilia Permiakov with the Leningrad
State Chamber Orchestra directed by Ravil Martynov. It is published in
celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of this protagonist of world
literature, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin.
Vladislav
Uspensky was born in the city of Omsk (Siberia) in 1937. His parents were
musicians, and his mother and grandmother, both pianists, were his first
teachers. In 1955, he was accepted at the Moscow Musical college as a student in
composition; he continued his graduate studies at the Leningrad Conservatory
(now the St. Petersburg Conservatory) where he later became one of the two
students selected by Dmitrii Shostakovich for his post-graduate class in
composition. In 1965 Uspensky joined the faculty of the St. Petersburg
Conservatory, where he is presently teaching as a Professor of Composition.
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