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Composer
VLADIMIR KORNEV
02.09.1926 – 09.02.2011
Composer, Honoured Artist of RSFSR
Vladimir Gordeevich Kornev was born in 1926. Being a young man during the years of the Great Patriotic War he took part in front concert brigades as a button accordion player. Some of Vladimir Korneev’s teachers who influenced him as a musician were such experts of folk art A. A. Lukinovsky, A. A. Shalayev and E. D. Kuznetsov.
His first work, “Volzhskaya Kadril” (the Volga Quadrille), he wrote in 1954; it is still published and has actually become a textbook work of art that almost all button accordion players perform. “Volzhskaya Kadril” was first played by a duet of Shalaev and Krylov. During the years 1954-1966 Vladimir Kornev worked really a lot for ensemble "Beryozka". Together with N. S. Nadezhdina he wrote music for five dances “Holostyaki” (Bachelors), “Carousel”, “Russkiy Souvenir”, “Na Yarmarke” (At the Fair) and well-known “Tolstuha” (A Fat Woman).
In 1967 Vladimir Kornev began to work with Krasnoyarsk Academic Dance Company of Siberia; there were some one-act ballets created for this Ensemble by Choreographer M. S. Gordenko, including “Vziatie Snezhnogo Gorodka” (Conquering a Snow Castle) based on Surikov’s painting, “My na Yarmarku Idem” (We Are Going to the Fair), “Bylo u Teshenki Semero Zatyov” (How One Mother-in-Law had Seven Sons-in-Law) and three programmes. In cooperation with M. S. Godenko Vladimir Kornev worked with Moscow Ballet on Ice (Programme “Sem Tsvetov Radugi” (Seven Colors of the Rainbow), the Don Kazakh Ensemble (one of the well-known works is a dance called “Na Maidane” (At the Marketplace). Vladimir Kornev was a composer and a music director at Spartakiads in 1979 and 1983.
In 1974 Vladimir Kornev was awarded the title of the Honoured Artist of Russia.
At the Olympics of 1980 Vladimir Kornev was one of the authors of the music for the Russian Federation choreography.
In his last years Vladimir Kornev published 4 collections and about 150 separate music pieces, created some works for “Gzhel” theatre and continued his cooperation with Krasnoyarsk Academic Dance Company of Siberia.
In 1998 Vladimir Kornev, by that time a well-know folklorist, Honoured Artist of Russia and Holder of the Order of Friendship, started his cooperation with the Russian National Ballet “Kostroma". It is he who wrote the music for the turns of the ballets “Zagadochnaya Rus” (Great Mysterious Rus) (1999), “Zhyli-Byli” (Once upon a time…) (2002), “Russian National Dance Show “Kostroma” (2005), “Ozertso – ozertse” (Magic lake), “Molitva” (Prayer), “Bystrinochka” (The Tiny Brook), “Vorotsa” (The Gates), “Gusarskaya Ballada” (Hussar’s Ballad), “Vohomskaya Izbovaya” (Vohma Log Hut Dance), “Olhovka”, “Podarochnaya” (The Gifts), “Ryabinovaya Vetka” (A Branch of Mountain Ash), round dance “Vesenni Lirichesky” (Spring Lyrical), song “Kostromushka”, “Zimushka” (The Winter Dance), “Prazdnichnaya” (The Festive Dance), “Selo Poteshnoye” (At Poteshnaya Village), “Zashitniki” (Defenders), “Teplota Serdechnaya Skanyu Nazyvayetsa” (Heart’s Warmth is Called Filigree), “Piterskaya” (Along The Piterskaya Street), “Chainaya” (At The Tea House), “Kundubochka”, “Eh, Vstrechai!” (Here I Come!).
All these years Vladimir Kornev was not just a composer of the Russian National Ballet “Kostroma”, he was a close friend of Elena and Yuri Tsarenko, the Ballet's directors. They created wonderful pieces of music together, that win the hearts of the audience all over the world.
Vladimir Kornev’s music and the memory of the talented composer will stay with us out of time and space awakening bright images of Great Rus in our minds.