UNION OF COMPOSERS AND BASTAKORS OF UZBEKISTAN

 

FELIX YANOV-YANOVSKY (born in Tashkent in 1934), graduated from the Tashkent State Conservatory, having specialized in violin (1957, class of N.Bronfman) and composition (1959, class of B.Nadejdin). Since 1961 he has been working at the Faculty of composition and instrumentation at the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan; professor, the Honoured Art Worker of Uzbekistan. F.Yanov-Yanovsky is a member of the Composers Union and Cinematographicists' Union of Uzbekistan.

F.Yanov-Yanovsky is the author of four operas, four symphonies, concertos, oratorios, vocal series, and compositions for Uzbek folk instru­ments, music to films and performances, variety songs, and music for children. Yanov-Yanovsky's works have received several honors, including diploma for musical score to the animated film "The Young Growth" in 1981 All-Ukrainian Film Festival, the Award of the Youth League of Uzbekistan for music to the film "It will rain" (1985) and the Prize to the Cinematographists' Union for music to animated serial "The History of Islam" (in collaboration with Dmitriy Yanov-Yanovsky) in 1995. His compositions were per­formed in Uzbekistan and CIS countries, as well as in England, Bulgaria, Germany, and Israel. A number of his - compositions are published and recorded on gramophone records and at the radio.

The composition for vocal and two pi­anos “I don't know where" (lyrics by E.Verharn, translated by V.Brusov) was written on the re­quest of the famous piano duet - I. and M.Jeleznovs. It is the first experience in creation of such genre.