Vladimir Shcherbachov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Shcherbachov (Shcherbachyov, Shcherbachev) (Влади́мир Влади́мирович Щербачёв; 24 January 1889, in Warsaw – 5 March 1952, in Leningrad) was a Soviet composer.

He studied with Maximilian Steinberg, Anatoly Lyadov, and Jāzeps Vītols (Joseph Wihtol) at the St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1908 to 1914. While there he also worked as a pianist for Sergey Diaghilev and taught theory. He served in World War I and then worked in Soviet government music positions. In 1918-1923 he worked as a lecturer and ran the musical department of the Narkompros. He later became a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory (1923-1931 and 1944-1948) and the Tbilisi Conservatory. He counted Boris Arapov, Vasily Velikanov, Evgeny Mravinsky, Valery Zhelobinsky, Gavriil Popov, Valerian Bogdanov-Berezovsky, Pyotr Ryazanov, and Mikhail Chulaki among his pupils, as well as various others.

Works

 * Anna Kolossova, opera (1939, unfinished);
 * Tabachny Kapitan, operetta (1943);
 * Five symphonies:
 * No. 1 (1914);
 * No. 2 ("Blokovskaya” or "Blok", with soloists and chorus, 1925);
 * No. 3 (Symphony-Suite, 1931);
 * No. 4 ("Izhorskaya", with soloists and chorus, 1935);
 * No. 5 ("Russkaya", 1948, 2nd version in 1950);
 * Nonet for 7 instruments, voice and dancer (1919);
 * Suite for string quartet (1939) and other chamber music;
 * Two piano sonatas and other piano works;
 * Various Romances;
 * Film music:
 * The Thunderstorm (after Aleksandr Ostrovsky, 1934);
 * Peter I (1937-1939);
 * Polkovodets Suvorov (1941);
 * Two Suites:
 * The Thunderstorm
 * Peter I;