Leonid Veniaminovich Feigin (Feigin, Leonid) |

Feigin, Leonid

He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1947 in the class of violin D. Oistrakh, composition – N. Myaskovsky and V. Shebalin. Until 1956, he combined composing and concert activities, performing on the symphony and chamber stage. Since 1956, he stopped concert performances and took up composition. He wrote: the opera “Sister Beatrice” (1963), the ballets “Don Juan” (1957), “Star Fantasy” (1961), “Forty Girls” (1965), symphonic and chamber works.

The score of Don Juan testifies to the skill of the author, who owns the symphonic resources of contemporary ballet music. The meaningful characteristics of Don Juan and Donna Anna, the abundance of dance forms, the liveliness of the music of everyday scenes, genre sketches, the dynamism of contrasting comparisons of solo and mass episodes give the musical dramaturgy of Don Juan an effective character.