Yuri Shaporin - The Decembrists - Introduction

Orchestr Velkého divadla v Moskvě, Aleksandr Šamilevič Melik-Pašajev Orchestra and chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow; Alexander Shamilevich Melik-Pashaev Jurij Aleksandrovič Šaporin (8. listopadu 1887 - 9. prosince 1966) byl ruský sovětský skladatel. Napsal poměrně malý počet děl (opera Děkabristé, kantáta Na poli Kulikova, oratorium Pověst o bitvě o rodnou zem, Symfonie pro sbor a orchestr, klavírní sonáty, skladby pro violoncello, písně) - dohromady asi 30 děl. Yuri Alexandrovich Shaporin (Russian: Юрий (Георгий) Александрович Шапорин; November 8 1887 -- 9 December 1966) was a Russian Soviet was a founding member of the Association for Contemporary Music in 1923. During the 1930s he turned his attention to large scale works. His opera Dekabristi (The Decembrists), with the libretto written by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy about the Decembrist re