Background
Yury Vasilievich was born on the 27th of March, 1914 in Yuryev of the Province of Livonia.
composer Guitarist musicologist
Yury Vasilievich was born on the 27th of March, 1914 in Yuryev of the Province of Livonia.
He graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Department of the Voronezh State University (1936), the Folk Instruments Department of the Voronezh Musical College (1938), the History and Theoretical Department of the State Musical Pedagogical Institute named after the Gnesins (1952).
Guitarist of the Regional Drama Theater (1935-1939), teacher of physics and guitar (1937-1942), acting as director of the Voronezh Music College (1941-1942). Artist of the front concert brigade (1942-1943, Kuibyshev), soloist of the regional philharmonic society (1943-1944, Ulyanovsk). Teacher of musical and theoretical disciplines and guitars of the Voronezh Musical College (1944-1975), lead guitarist (1953-1959), artistic director, musicologist of the Voronezh Regional Philharmonic (1953-1981), music director, consultant of the Voronezh State Academic Russian Folk Choir named after K.I. Massalitinova (1963-1965), teacher of musical and theoretical disciplines of the educational and consulting center of the Moscow State Institute of Culture (1963-1971, Voronezh), Voronezh State Institute of Arts (1971-1974). Executive Secretary (1962-1973), Member (1974-1981), Chairman (1981-1985) of the Board of the Voronezh Composer's Organization.
Author of processing Russian folk songs, romances, songs and choruses on verses by Ivan Nikitin, Sergei Yesenin, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Vasily Kubanev, Gennady Lutkov, Alexander Golubev, Mikhail Shishlyannikov and others, plays for various instruments.
He is the author of many local history works on the history of musical life, including books: "I. Nikitin in Music "(Voronezh, 1962)," The Poetry of A. Koltsov in Russian and Soviet Music "(Voronezh, 1969)," The Musical Life of Pre-Revolutionary Voronezh "(Voronezh, 1994).
In the State Archives of the Voronezh Region there is Vorontsov's personal fund (R-1669).