Matvey Isaakovich Blanter

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Matvei Isaakovich Blanter (Russian: Матвей Исаакович Блантер) (born in Pochep, then Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire 10 February [O.S. 28 January] 1903 – died Moscow 27 September 1990) was one of the most important composers of popular and film music in the Soviet Union was born into a family of a poor Jewish artisan. Among many other songs, he wrote the immensely popular "Katyusha", and "Song about Shchors". He was active as a composer until 1975, producing more than two thousand songs. By the late 1930s Blanter emerged as one of the creators of the Soviet mass song, a new genre which evolved from a peculiar fusion of Russian, Ukrainian, Jewish and Armenian musical folklore, early 20th century urban popular music and romance, revolutionary marches of struggle and protest, Central European operetta and tsarist-era waltzes. The most famous songs composed by Blanter in the 1930s were styled after the songs of the Red Army soldiers and commanders of the Russian Civil War period (1918-1921). These were not just purely battle songs but also songs about some well-known heroic commanders and Red Army partisans as well as more pensive and tragic songs about the era of fratricidal struggle. Blanter's "Cossack" songs of the 1930s with their romanticizing of the Russian Civil War and the Bolshevik cause became in many ways the symbols of the era together with such cinematographic achievements as the movie "Chapaev" or the tales of Arkady Gaidar. In many instances Blanter's

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Hvorostovsky, D.: Songs - Tariverdiev M. / Bogoslovsky, N. / Fradkin, M. / Solov'Yov- Sedoy / V. / Basner, V. / Novikov, A.

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Red Army Choir: Russian Favourite Songs

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Red Army Choir: Russian Favourites

Wartime Songs

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Hvorostovsky, D.: Songs - Tariverdiev M. / Bogoslovsky, N. / Fradkin, M. / Solov'Yov- Sedoy

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Wait for Me

ガールズ&パンツァー オリジナルサウンドトラック

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Red Army Choir: Moscow Nights

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Best of Communism 2 - Válogatott mozgalmi dalok

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Balalaika Ensemble Wolga

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ガールズ&パンツァー オリジナル・サウンド・トラック

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GIRLS und PANZER ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

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