Dmitry Lvovich Klebanov |

Dmitri Klebanov

Composer Dmitry Lvovich Klebanov was educated at the Kharkov Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1927. For several years the composer was engaged in pedagogical and performing activities as a violinist. In 1934 he wrote the opera The Stork, but in the same year he remade it into a ballet. Svetlana is his second ballet, written in 1938.

Stork is one of the first Soviet ballets for children, which embodied humanistic ideas in a fascinating fairy-tale form. The music consists of numbers reminiscent of simple, easy-to-remember children’s songs. The score includes vocal numbers that are animatedly perceived by the children’s audience. The final song is especially successful.

In addition to ballets, Klebanov wrote 5 symphonies, a symphonic poem “Fight in the West”, 2 violin concertos, a Ukrainian suite for orchestra, vocal cycles to poems by T. Shevchenko and G. Heine. One of the last works of D. Klebanov is the opera “Communist”.

L. Entelic