Dmitry Kabalevsky

Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1904 – 14 February 1987) was a Russian composer. Kabalevsky's Quotes You can't think you can write a pop song with your left foot or with whatever hand but if there is a symphony you need to sit behind the table, to think. You need to think about the pop song. If you don't think about it then it turns out to be trash and vulgarity, of which there are plenty now on the air. And the second conclusion is this: if you like light music this is completely natural. For example, if I didn’t like light music I wouldn't have written the music for Anton Ivanovich Is Angry. But if you like only light music then you are a poor fellow.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuD09hhBG5U&start=1613 Dmitry Kabalevsky. Soviet Don Quichotte Russia-K YouTube 1985 2020-12-06 Нельзя думать, что можно эстрадную песню писать левой ногой или какой-нибудь рукой, а вот там симфонию - нужно сесть за стол, думать. Думать нужно и над эстрадной песней. Если не подумаешь - получается халтура и пошлятина, которой немало сейчас в эфире. А второй вывод такой: если вы любите лёгкую музыку - это совершенно естественно. Если бы, например, я не любил лёгкую музыку, я бы не писал музыку к "Антону Ивановичу сердится". Но если вы любите только лёгкую музыку, значит вы бедняк Quotes about Kabalevsky Neuhaus summed him up rather well when he called him the poor man's Prokofiev or Shostakovich. I knew him, but it would never have occured to me to play his threatbare music. (...) K. was a true intellectual, someone who was genuinely cultured, but as a person he was compromised, and deeply unpleasant. Sviatoslav Richter, in Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations References External links Category:Academics from Russia Category:Composers from Russia Category:Communists from Russia Category:People from St. Petersburg Category:1904 births Category:1987 deaths