Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov ( _ru. Александр Васильевич Александров, "Aleksandr Vasilevich Aleksandrov") (OldStyleDate|13 April|1883|1 April — July 8, 1946) was a Russian Soviet composer, the founder of the Red Army Choir, who wrote the music for the national anthem of the Soviet Union, which in 2001, became the anthem of Russia (with new lyrics).

History

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov was born on April 13 in Plakhino, a village south-east of Moscow. As a boy his singing was so impressive that he travelled to Saint Petersburg to become a chorister in Kazan Cathedral. A pupil of Medtner, he studied composition at Saint Petersburg and in Moscow, where he eventually became professor of music in 1918.

Alexandrov founded the Red Army Choir, and spent many years as its director, in which role he first gained favor with Joseph Stalin, the country's ruler during the last two decades of Alexandrov's life. His choir participated successfully in the Universal Exposition of 1937 in Paris, and in 1942, Stalin commissioned him and lyrist Sergey Mikhalkov to create a new Soviet national anthem, which was officially adopted on January 1, 1944. It was very popular that it was used by the Soviet Union until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. It later became the National Anthem of Russia in December 2000, with Mikhalkov writing the new lyrics.

He also composed the famous Svyaschennaya Voyna song.

He died on July 8, 1946, while on tour in Berlin.

ee also

*"Lefty", a 1964 animated film in which Alexandrov's music was used.
*"The Hunt for Red October" (1990), in which Alexandrov's national anthem is sung by Sean Connery's submarine crew, led by Danish actor Sven-Ole Thorsen.

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