Veniamin Basner

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Veniamin Efimovich Basner (1.01.1925. Yaroslavl - 3.09.1996, St.-Petersburg) a People's Artist of Russia, a State prize-winner, is a prominent composer whose art has become part of the history of the national culture, one of its brightest pages. From the age of six Veniamin Basner had been playing violin, and favored it throughout his life. In 1949 he graduated from the Leningrad Conservatoire in violin. But he made his first experiments in compsition at the age of fifteen. In 1955 Veniamin Basner became a prize-winner of the International Composers' Competition in Warsaw for his Second String Quartet, beginning his most intense period of creative activity. While still a student he met Dmitry Shostakovich whose advice furthered his rapid formation as a professional composer. Soon his relations with the great musician developed into a true personal friendship. The range of Basner's artistic interests is extremely wide and diverse - in their genres as well as emotional substance. Thirteen works for musical theater, three symphonies, two concertoes, symphony suites, five quartets, vocal symphony cycles - this list of his compositions in academic genres which have been successfully performed in Russia as well as abroad is far from complete. The contribution he made to the genre of cinema music and songs is much significant too. More than a hundred movies and three hundred songs have become widely known to many millions of people in different countries of the world. Listening

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albums

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You And I

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String Quartets CD 2

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String Quartets CD 1

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Basner: Violin Works

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String Quartets - The Taneyev Quartet

Basner: String Quartets

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String Quartets - Taneyev String Quartet

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Basner: Katerina Izmaylova (After Shostakovich's Op. 29)

Veniamin Basner: String Quartets

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Eight poems to Anna Akhmatova - Gorokhovskaya (MS), Golovnyova (piano)

Violin Concerto / Violin Sonata

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Complete String Quartets (Taneyev SQ)

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