A couple of considered rarities:
Vladimir Mikhailovich Deshevov. Born 1889, St Petersburg: died 1955, same. Composer, teacher and member of the PROLETKULT. Deshevov studied piano privately with Pashchenko in 1906, then continued his training in piano and composition at the St Petersburg Conservatoire (1908-14). His teachers included Kalafati, Lyadov, L Nikolayev, Steinberg and Vinkler. He served in the Russian army during World War I and in 1917 became secretary of the People’s Music Education Committee in Yelizavetgrad, a post he held until 1919. In 1920 he founded the Sevastopol Conservatoire, and two years later became director of music education in Ukraine. From 1922-33 he was director of music at the Leningrad Theatre and taught in various Leningrad music schools.
Deshevov’s association with the PROLETKULT was no doubt due to his work in popular music education, but is also of interest because it suggests that the verbal battle between the PROLETKULT and the Association of Contemporary Music (ASM) was founded more on ideological than musical grounds.
Deshevov’s piano music reflected the ethos of his time…from works that could be compared to the early works by Prokofiev or Rosvalets – as seen through his Scherzo [Op 6] or Meditations [Op 3] - to later works after 1930 that tried to reflect realist music in the approved Soviet manner.
I have been after the Op 1 No. 2 Marche for a considerable period….now here duly shared with fellow members. I have also included some of the other Deshevov works that we have posted on PP over the past 18 month including the wonderful Op 1 No.1 Etude [my thanks to the original scanners].
Op 1 Deux Morceaux
No. 1 Etude:
Deshevov V - Op 1 No. 1 Etude.pdf
No.2 Marche:
[NEW] Deshevov V - Op 1 No. 2 Marche.pdf
Op 6 Scherzo
Deshevov V - Op 6 Scherzo.pdf
Op 7 Ballade
Deshevov V - Op 7 Ballade.pdf
Op 16 Rails
Deshevov V - Op 16 Rails.pdf
M Gazen [M Hasen]. I can find absolutely nothing about this composer beyond he edited some works by Gozenpud, and that I suspect he may be a Georgian composer.
[Turn out Gazen or Hazen is actually Gozenpud...they are one and the same composer]
His beautiful Deux Poemes Op 5
Gazen M - Op 5 Deux Poemes.pdf
Malcolm
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