Mikhail Nosyrev

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Mikhail Nosyrev (Leningrad, May 28, 1924 - Voronezh, March 28, 1981) was a Russian composer. In 1941 he finished his 10-year studies at the Leningrad Conservatory School and was enrolled as a first-year student at the Conservatory itself. Two years later during the siege of Leningrad he became a solo violinist at the Leningrad radio committee and conductor at the Music Comedy Theatre. In 1943 he was arrested and sentenced to death by firing squad for the “treason against the Motherland”. The main proof of the 19-year old young man's guilt was an “anti-Soviet” diary found during a house search. A month later the sentence was commuted to a 10-year term, which he fully served as a concertmaster at the Music and Drama Theatre in a camp of Vorkuta. From 1953 Nosyrev lived in Syktyvkar, where he became the first conductor of the Komi drama theatre. From 1958 until 1981 Nosyrev was a conductor at the Voronezh State Opera and Ballet Theatre. He participated in dozens of productions. In 1967 he became a member of the USSR Union of Composers (UC). He received his recommendation for entering the UC from Dmitri Shostakovich, whose creative work Mikhail Nosyrev admired greatly throughout all his life and to whom he dedicated his Second Symphony. The ballet “The Song of Triumphant Love” written by the composer to the short story by Ivan Turgenev ran at the Voronezh State Opera and Ballet Theatre for about twenty seasons. In practically all of the composer's works one can hear the echo

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