Genrikh Litinsky

Genrikh Ilyich Litinsky (March 17, 1901 – July 26, 1985) was a Soviet Russian composer and educator. He held the title of Professor and was named an Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1957.

Born in Lipovets, now in the Vinnytsia Oblast of Ukraine, Litinsky graduated with a gold medal from the Moscow Conservatory in 1928, where he studied composition in the class of Reinhold Glière. His teaching career at the conservatory began in 1924. From 1932 to 1943, he served as the head of the composition department and also spent some time as the dean of the composition faculty.

Until the mid-1940s, Litinsky primarily composed in chamber and instrumental genres. His works from this period include several string quartets, violin sonatas, a string octet (1944), and a concerto for trumpet and orchestra (1934).

In the post-war period, Litinsky was sent, along with Mark Zhirkov, to help establish a professional musical tradition in Yakutia. In collaboration with Zhirkov, he co-authored the first Yakut musical stage works: the epic opera 'Nyurgun Bootur' and the ballet-fairy tale 'Field Flower,' both from 1947. He further developed this work in his orchestral rhapsodies 'Ysyakh' (1966) and 'Aykhal' (1972). Among his students was the composer Alimjan Khalimov, a People's Artist of Uzbekistan.

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