Background
Kenel Alexander Alexandrovich was born on October 31, 1898 in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation and died on July 06, 1970 in the city of Abakan, Khakass Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian Federation.
Kenel Alexander Alexandrovich was born on October 31, 1898 in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation and died on July 06, 1970 in the city of Abakan, Khakass Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian Federation.
Alexandr Alexandrovich Kenel was a pianist and composer in various dramatic theaters of Leningrad (1922-1927). He was arrested in 1927, served 3 years in forced labor camps in Solovki.
He wrote the music for the "Solovetsky anthem". From 1930 he lived in the city of Voronezh in exile. In 1935, he came for tour to Voronezh.
He was a pianist-accompanist of theater and entertainment enterprises of Tashkent and Sverdlovsk (1933-1936), head of the musical part of the drama theaters of Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Abakan (1936-1951). Led a class of piano and music literature in the Abakan Regional Music School. He wrote the music for the opera on the Khakass national plot "Chanarhus" (1966). Author of the books: "Semen Kadyshev" (Moscow, 1962), "Folk musical creativity of the Khakas" (Abakan, 1955).