Lev Danilovich Chernyshov

Background

Lev Danilovich Chernyshov was born on June 21, 1930, in the Moscow region, Russian Federation.

Education

Lev Danilovich graduated from the Voronezh College of Music in violin (1953), Voronezh Civil Engineering Institute (now Voronezh State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering) (1954), and Kazakh National Conservatory in composition class (1961).

Career

Lev Danilovich worked at the Department of Music Theory of the Kazakh Institute of Arts (now Kazakh National Academy of Arts). Since 1971 he was a lecturer and musicologist of the Philharmonic (1971), teacher of the Voronezh School of Music and Pedagogy (1972-1978), secondary special music school (since 1978).

The author of the oratorio "Ivan Nikitin" (1974), the opera of the same name (1989-2002, libretto by A. A. Golubev and L. D. Chernyshov), the symphonic suite "On Usmanka" (1973) and the poem "Echo of Spring" (1984), vocal-choral concert "Songs of Koltsov" (1995), cantata "Tsar ship" (1997), romances and songs on verses of Russian, including Voronezh poets: N. Belyansky, L. Berezhnykh, V. Budakova, D. Venevitinova, V. Gordeichev, P. Kasatkin, A. Koltsov, I. Nikitin, E. Novichikhin, M. Shishlyannikov and others, symphonic, chamber-instrumental works, compositions for orchestra of folk instruments.

Membership

• Union of Composers

  1968