Nadezhda Simonyan

Russian composer

Nadezhda Simonyan (February 26, 1922 - June 7, 1997) was a Russian composer,^[1] who wrote over 40 film scores^[2] for movies, radio, and television, as well as chamber and orchestral works, and music for circus performances.^[3]

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.^[4]

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.”^[5] In 1960, Italian film maker Federico Fellini praised her soundtrack for the movie Lady with the Dog.^[6] She often used smaller chamber orchestras, sometimes with folk instruments, for her film scores.^[7]

Chamber

Sonata (violin and piano)^[4]

Circus

incidental music^[4]

Film scores

Adventures of Prince Florizel^[8]
Chief of Chukotka^[9]
Day of Happiness^[9]
Duel^[4]
Fifth Quarter^[9]
Flying Carpet^[4]
For No Apparent Reason^[9]
Green Dale^[4]
In the Town of S^[9]
Izhora Battalion^[9]
Lady with the Dog^[10]
Lyalka-Ruslan and His Friend Sanka^[8]
Nights of Farewell (with Yuri Prokoviev)^[8]
Old Man Khottabych^[5]
Only One^[8]
Pani Mariya^[8]
Sinful Angel^[8]
Smart Things^[8]
Snow Queen^[8]
Strict Male Life^[8]
Twelve Months^[9]
Two Lines in Small Font^[8]
Vesenniye Perevyortyshi^[8]
While the Mountains Still Stand^[8]

Orchestra

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra^[11]

Piano

pieces^[4]

Radio scores

Golden Apples^[4]
On the Bank of Sevan^[4]
Story of Turkey^[4]
Three Bears^[4]
Year of My Birth^[4]

Vocal

Lake Sevan Cantata^[4]
romances^[4]
songs^[4]

References

^ Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
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^ "Nadezhda Simonyan". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. Books & Music (USA). ISBN 978-0-9617485-2-4.
^ ^a ^b Rollberg, Peter (2008-11-07). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6268-5.
^ Egorova, Tatiana (2014-07-10). Soviet Film Music. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-37725-1.
^ Jaffé, Daniel (2022-02-15). Historical Dictionary of Russian Music. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-3008-7.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l "Simonyan, Nadezhda - listen online, download, sheet music". classical-music-online.net. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Hoovies". hoovies.net. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
^ Москва в кино (in Russian). Контакт-Культура. 2008. ISBN 978-5-93882-035-7.
^ Smith, Steven (1984). The Piano Concerto After Bartok: A Survey for Performers of the Piano Concerto Literature with Emphasis on the Postwar Era, 1945-1970. University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music.