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Aleksandr Borisovich Zhurbin
Александр Журбин
Birth at
7 August 1945
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Alexander Zhurbin is a Soviet Russian composer who equally brilliantly copes with a variety of genres - from symphonies to pop music, from chamber music of the "new wave", operas and ballets to soundtracks to dozens of films and music for the theater. Born Alexander Borisovich Handelsman, he was born in Tashkent on August 7, 1945, where, after a special music school, he graduated from the conservatory, and then, in 1969, the Gnessin Music School, where Aram Khachaturyan was among his teachers. The
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Alexander Zhurbin is a Soviet Russian composer who equally brilliantly copes with a variety of genres - from symphonies to pop music, from chamber music of the "new wave", operas and ballets to soundtracks to dozens of films and music for the theater.
Born Alexander Borisovich Handelsman, he was born in Tashkent on August 7, 1945, where, after a special music school, he graduated from the conservatory, and then, in 1969, the Gnessin Music School, where Aram Khachaturyan was among his teachers. The young composer immediately went into the musical life of the country, began to compose in academic musical genres, write for the theater, where he staged the rock opera Orpheus and Eridica - the first such experience in the USSR. Since the mid-1970s, the music of Zhurbin sounded in the cinema, where you can highlight such popular films as “In my death I ask to blame Klava K.”, “Charlotte’s ring”,
"Flying Hussar Squadron" "Uncle Au" cartoons.
With the beginning of perestroika, the composer went to America, to New York, where he was also actively engaged in creativity, performed, created the first Russian-language theater “Wanding Stars”. In the early 2000s, he returned to his homeland, where he continued to compose for film and theater.