Vladimir Shainsky

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| name = Владимир Яковлевич Шаинский
Vladimir Shainsky

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| birth_name = Vladimir Yakovlevich Shainsky

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|12|12}}

| birth_place = Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|12|25|1925|12|12}}

| death_place = San Diego, California, United States

| occupation = Composer

| years_active = 1949 — 2013

| title = People’s Artist of the RSFSR {{small|(1986)}}

| awards = {{plainlist |

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" {{small|(Russia,4th class,2005)}}
Order of Honour {{small|(Russia,2001)}}
Order of Friendship {{small|(Russia,1995)}}
USSR State Prize {{small|(USSR,1981)}}

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Vladimir Yakovlevich Shainsky ({{lang-rus|Владимир Яковлевич Шаинский|p=vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr ʂɐˈinskʲɪj}}; 12 December 1925 – 25 December 2017) was a Soviet and Russian composer.{{Cite web|url=https://graniru.org/Politics/Russia/yukos/m.91354.html|title=Грани.Ру: Деятели культуры против "нездоровых тенденций" в связи с делом "ЮКОСа"|website=graniru.org}} He was a recipient of the People's Artist of the RSFSR (1986).

Biography

Shainsky was born in Kyiv to a Jewish family. He first studied violin at the music school in Kyiv. His studies there were interrupted in 1941 by World War II, when his family was evacuated to Tashkent, Uzbek SSR. He continued his musical education at the Tashkent Conservatory, until he was enlisted in the Red Army. After the war he entered Moscow Conservatory, where he graduated as a violinist. In the 1950s Shainsky played in Leonid Utyosov's orchestra, taught students, and worked as a music manager at various dance orchestras. He later studied composition in Baku conservatory. His first compositional works were a string quartet, created in 1963 during his studies in Baku conservatory, and a symphony, written in 1965.

During his career as a composer, Shainsky wrote a great number of works for children. He created music and songs for cartoons such as Cheburashka, Katerok, Mamontenok and Kroshka Enot; also for films, including Breakfast on the Grass, Aniskin and Fantomas, Aniskin Again, School Waltz, Finist, the brave Falcon; and for musicals. He wrote many songs, such as A Soldier is Walking in the Town, Russia's Little Corner, White Birch, Smile, Clouds, A Dog is Lost, Crocodile Gena's Song, True thrushes[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8c9DRb56ds Emil Gorovets - ''True thrushes]. Shainsky has also authored numerous songs in the Yiddish language,{{Cite web|url=http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/freedman/lookupartist?hr=&what=8516|title=Freedman Catalogue lookup: artist Shainsky, Vladimir|website=digital.library.upenn.edu}} still popular with the klezmer orchestras. Shainsky has been awarded numerous awards, including the USSR State Prize (1981), People's Artist of the RSFSR (1986)[https://books.google.com/books?id=_cSwa5A9uecC&q=Нар.%20арт.%20РСФСР&pg=PA738 Эстрада в России. XX век: энциклопедия.]: Olma Media Group, 2004. — 861 с. — С. 738 {{ISBN|978-5-224-04462-7}} of the Russian SFSR title (1986), Order of Friendship (1996). He is a multiple prizewinner of the Russian (formerly Soviet) Song of the Year festival (since 1971) and was a member of the political party United Russia.[http://www.kp.ru/daily/23755/56258/ Звёзды эстрады на партийной службе].

Shainskay was married three times: 1) to composer Asya Sultanova; 2) to Natalya Vasilievna Shainskaya, with whom he had a son; and 3) to Svetlana Vladimirovna Shainskaya, with whom he had a son and a daughter.{{Cite web|title=Shainsky, Vladimir Yakovlevich|url=https://clever-geek.imtqy.com/articles/55250/index.html|access-date=2021-10-13|website=clever-geek.imtqy.com}}

Shainsky was ill with stomach cancer and underwent several operations.[http://www.kp.ru/daily/26469.3/3337933/ У больного раком Владимира Шаинского нет денег на американских врачей] He died at 2 am on Christmas Day 2017, at the age of 92, after suffering a long illness at the San Diego Hospital in California, United States.[https://www.5-tv.ru/news/174626/ Звёзды советской и российской эстрады скорбят по Владимиру Шаинскому].

References

External links

{{IMDb name|id=0787607|name=Vladimir Shainskiy}}
[http://www.peoples.ru/art/music/composer/shainsky/ Shainskiy's biography] {{in lang|ru}}
[http://www.kinoexpert.ru/index.asp?comm=5&kw=8960 Another biography] {{in lang|ru}}
[http://tass.com/society/983161 Author of soundtrack for top-rated Soviet cartoon miniseries dies at age of 92] {{in lang|en}}
[http://animator.ru/db/?p=show_person&pid=327 Владимир Яковлевич Шаинский на Animator.ru]

Category:1925 births

Category:2017 deaths

Category:20th-century Russian classical composers

Category:Soviet classical composers

Category:20th-century Russian male musicians

Category:Musicians from Kyiv

Category:Baku Academy of Music alumni

Category:Moscow Conservatory alumni

Category:Russian male film score composers

Category:Composers for piano

Category:People's Artists of the RSFSR

Category:Recipients of the Decoration of Honor Meritorious for Polish Culture