Background
DUNAYEVSKIY, Isaak was born on January 30, 1900 in Lokhvitsa, Poltava Province.
DUNAYEVSKIY, Isaak was born on January 30, 1900 in Lokhvitsa, Poltava Province.
1919 graduate 1. Akhron’s violin class, Khar’kov Conservatory. Studied composition under professor South. Bogatyryov.
1919-1924 orchestra violinist, first violinist. Later lecturer, People's University. Musical director, Khar’kov Province, Department of Education.
1924-1926 musical director Hermitage Theater, then Moscow City Trade-Union Council Theater, then Korsh Theater. 1926-1929 musical director, Moscow Satyrical Theater.
1929-1934 chief conductor and musical director, Leningrad Music-Hall. 1938-1948 artistic director, Song and Dance Ensemble, Railroad Worker's Centr House of Culture in Moscow. 1937-1941 chairman, Organization(s) Committee, Leningrad Composers’ Union.
1939-1948 Presidium member, Organization(s) Committee, LISSR Composers’ Union. Deputy, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet of 1938 convocation. First of Soviet composers to include into light music elements of jazz, because of this repeatedly criticized.
While his early operettas were already forgotten by the 1930's, he is better known as a creator of mass songs and composer of film-music The first musical phrase of his song "Broad Is My Native Land" has become the call-sign of Radio Moscow. Closely associated with poet LebcdevKumach, who wrote the texts of his songs.