Yevgeny Dolmatovsky | |
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Евге́ний Аро́нович Долмато́вский | |
Born | |
Died | 10 September 1994 Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia | (aged 79)
Citizenship | Russian (1915-22; 1991-94) Soviet (1922-91) |
Occupation(s) | Poet, lyricist |
Yevgeny Aronovich Dolmatovsky (Russian: Евге́ний Аро́нович Долмато́вский; 5 May 1915 – 10 September 1994) was a Soviet-Russian poet and lyricist.
Biography[edit]
He was born and died in Moscow.
Examples of his songs[edit]
- Ballad of the Siberian Land (music by Nikolai Kryukov) - 1947
- The theme song of the film, Ballad of Siberia
- Yearning for the Motherland (in Russian: Тоска по родине, music by Dmitri Shostakovich, Opus 86) - 1948
- The theme song of the film, Encounter at the Elbe
- Song of the Forests (music by Dmitri Shostakovich, Opus 81) - 1949
- The Pioneers Plant Trees
- The Motherland Listens (in Russian: Родина слышит, music by Dmitri Shostakovich) - 1951
- This song is from "Four Songs on Verses by Dolmatovsky, for Voice, Wordless Chorus & Piano, Opus 86 (1951). It is well known in Russia that Yuri Gagarin was singing this song while circling the earth as the first man in space.
- And On Mars There Will Be Apple Blossoms (in Russian: И на Марсе будут яблони цвести, music by Vano Muradeli) - 1963
- A Soviet cosmonaut singing about the dream of space travel, and eventual colonisation of Mars, in which apple trees may grow.