Rudianskyi Oleksandr Mykolaiovych (26 October 1935 - 23 May 2021) was a Soviet Ukrainian composer, Honoured Artist of Ukraine (1993), member of the NSCU.
He was born in the working-class village of Uralets, Sverdlovsk Oblast, at the Krasny Ural gold mine in the Vysymsky district of Sverdlovsk Oblast. He graduated from the Sverdlovsk Military Music School (1951), Moscow Music School (1957), and the Gnesin Moscow Music Institute, class of composition of the world-famous composer, Professor Khachaturian A. (1963). He taught at the Alma-Ata and Karaganda Institutes, in 1977 he returned to Donetsk, where since 1983 he has been teaching at the Donetsk Conservatory. Head of the Department of Composition and Modern Music Technologies of the Prokofiev Donetsk State Music Academy.
Works.
The composer's work is characterised by a deep interaction and synthesis of "national and foreign factors".
Stage works:
opera Danko and Larry (after M. Gorky, 1976);
ballet "The Dive into Immortality" (Karaganda, 1967);
operetta "The Land of Tulips" (based on the story by Ch. Aitmatov "My Poplar in a Red Headscarf", Alma-Ata, 1970);
cantatas and oratorios
The poem "Russia" (sl. A. Prokofiev, 1963);
Cantatas: Pavlik Morozov (comp. by E. Khorinsky, 1957), The Falcon of the Steppes (comp. by T. Beisimbekov, 1975), Akyn Glorifies Lenin (comp. by A. Nazarov, 1970);
works for orchestra
Overtures - on Russian themes (1960), on Kazakh themes (1965),
the poem Nurken Abdirov (1974);
Cui Capriccio for cello and orchestra (1969);
Suite "Kazakh Sketches" for orchestra of Kazakh folk instruments (1972);
chamber works
Two pieces for violin ensemble (1965);
Two pieces for wind instrument quintet (1969);
String Quartet (1961),
Quartet on Kazakh themes (1964);
2 trios for oboe, viola and bassoon: I (1958), II (1962);
For violin and piano - Suite (1957), Sonata (1959);
For cello and piano - Suite (1958), Poem (1964),
for piano - Three Preludes (1955), Concert Suite (1966), Five Pieces (1970);
for voice and piano.
Two romances to lyrics by S. Shchypachev (1954),
Three romances to lyrics by Y. Drunina (1960);
songs (more than 100) to the words of R. Burns, M. Jalil, L. Berezhnykh, E. Konopnytska, M. Kupreev, I. Martov, M. Korotovskyi, M. Pilchen, V. Prokhorovskyi, R. Tamarine, N. Chirkov.
Printed works by O. Rudiansky
April. [Text]: a collection of songs: Zhalyn, 1976. 51 p.
Concertino for cello and orchestra. [Donetsk: [B. i.], 2009. - 82 p.
My city of tulips and roses. [Lyric songs for voice and piano: DGMA, 2007. 108 p.
Musical Chronicle. [Text]: documentary monograph - Donetsk: Donetsk State Music Academy, 2005. 176 p. Seven divine notes (from the composer's memoirs) [Text] - Donetsk: Pobutservis, 2003. - 150 p.
Taras's Way [Text]: an opera in two acts, five paintings / Libretto by V. Yurenko, V. Reva: Alex, 2008. 242 p.
