Variations are one of my favourite muscial forms......so I have posted 4 sets of variations by different Russian/Soviet composers.
Sergey Alekseyevich Razoryonov [Razorenov]. Born 1909, St Petersburg. Graduate 1939 from the Moscow Conservatoie, where he studied with Myaskovsky. Held various teaching and editorial positions including with Muzyka (1949-73) and Sovetskiy Kompozitor. Piano works include:
Op 12 Pieces for Children (1944-45)
Fugue in F minor [4-voices] (1932)
Sonatina No. 1 for left hand (1938)
Variations on a Theme of Bach (1940)
Piano Sonata (1947)
Romance in F# minor (1955)
Ballade (1959)
Concert Etudes (1960)
Siberian Rhapsody (1961)
Sonatina No. 2 (1963)
Variations on a French Theme (1962 rev. 1966)
Prelude & Fugue (1964)
Twelve Preludes (1966-69)
Slovakian Song
Etude “Life” in B minor
Razorenov C - Variations on an Old French Theme.pdf
Mikhail Rafailovich Raukhverger. Born 1901, Odessa. Graduated as a pianist from the Moscow Conservatoire where he was apupil of Blumenfeld. Taught also at the conservatoire from 1927 and chaired its piano departmeent from 1939-41. Is well known for his music for children. Piano works include:
Sonatina No. 1 (Muzgiz 1935)
Six Lyrical Pieces (Muzgiz 1935) 1. Song 2. March 3. Bagrustnulos ?R 4. Spring Round Dance 5. without title [Etude] 7. Narrative
Eleven Pieces for Children (Muzgiz 1936)
Ten Pieces for Children (Muzgiz 1947)
“Kirgiz Miniatures” Ten Pieces (Muzgiz 1947)
Variations on a Ukrainian Folksong (Muzgiz 1950)
Eight Pieces [based on Kirgiz themes] (1960) 1. Berceuse 2. Friends 3. Grandfather’s Story 4. Horses at Pasture 5. In the Garden of the Collective Farm 6. In the Forest Glade 7. Long Enough for Sadness 8. Mischief
Twenty-Five Etudes (1966)
Sonatina No. 2 (1968)
Sonatina No. 3 (1968)
“The Snow-Queen” Opera Ballet – arr. Piano solo (1969)
Piano Concerto (1973)
“The Blue Bird” Ballet in 2 Acts, 4 Scenes [in collaboration with I. Sats] – arr. Piano solo (1985)
Sonatina No. 4
Variations on a Slovakian Theme “The Hussar”
Variations on a Scottish Theme
Variations on a theme by A Maldybayeva
Raukhverger M - Variations on the Slovakian Theme 'The Hussar'.pdf
Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky. Born 1901, Yetaterinodar [now Krasnodar]: died 1965, Mamontovka, near Moscow. Violinist, conductor, pedagogue and composer. Graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire in 1925 as a violinist, and in 1928 as a composer. He studied with D. Krein [violin], and with Catoire and Myaskovsky [composition]. Held various performer and conductor positions with Moscow Radio orchestra (1930-32), Stanislavsky Opera Theatre orchestra (1932-36) as was also 2nd violinist with the Beethoven Quartet of the Moscow Conservatoire. Joined the faculty of the Moscow Conservatoire in 1939 – he also conducted research on Soviet music. Sabaneyev praised his compositons as showing “great taste and fine technique”. His music is tonal and accessible reflecting the conservatism of the socialist regime, a few works were considered to reflect compositions by the French Impressionists, Scriabin and Prokofiev. Piano works include:
Op 3 Variations on a Theme of Scriabin (1933)
Op 4 Piano Sonata (1929)
Op 7 Pieces [No. 3 Scherzo]
Op 17 Twenty-four Preludes (1962)
Prelude (1970)
Ninety-eight Fugues (1937-63)
Shirinsky V - Op 3 Variations on a theme by Scriabin.pdf
Dmitry Dmitriyevich Blagoy. Born 1930, Moscow: died 1986. Pianist, musicologist, and composer. Graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire in 1954 as a pianist and in 1957 as a composer. Studied with Goldenveizer [piano] and Shaporin [composition]. Joined the faculty in 1959 until his death. Piano works include:
Variations (1950)
Five Pieces for Children (1951)
Piano Concerto (1953)
Sonata – Skazka (1956)
Twelve Preludes (1957)
Prelude & Fugue in C major (1960)
Capriccio brillante for Piano & Orchestra (1960)
Variations on a Russian Theme (1960 -61)
Preludes (1962)
Etude Scherzino (1963) ?
Five Musical Pictures (1965)
Lullaby for Piano / 4 hands (1966)
Scherzo-Etude for Two Pianos (1966)
Moods (1967)
In A Child’s Life – Eleven Pieces (1968)
Improvisations [Variations] on Karel’sku Themes (1968)
“Mountainous Vision” Suite-Fantasie (1970)
Concert Transcription of a Romance by R Shumann (1970)
Easy Variations No. 1(Soviet Composer 1969)
Easy Variations No. 2 (Soviet Composer 1969)
Five Pieces 1. Dedication 2. Fleeting Moment 3. Playing Long Enough 4. Wild Dance 5. Recollection
Blagoy D - Variations on a Russian Theme.pdf
Malcolm