Igor Belza
Igor Fyodorovich Belza or Boelza (Игорь Фёдорович Бэлза; 8 February 1904 – 5 January 1994) was a Soviet music historian and composer who wrote 4 symphonies, 5 piano sonatas, 2 cello sonatas, a string quartet, and several film scores for Alexander Dovzhenko. He was the father of Svyatoslav Belza, a showman and a TV personality. Boelza was born in Kielce into a noble Polish family which moved to Kyiv after the outbreak of the First World War.
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Igor Belza
- Born
- sources differ (1904 and 1904). · Kielce.
- Died
- 1994. · Moscow.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union and Russian Empire.
- Occupation
- composer, musicologist, music educator, music historian, literary historian, literary critic and university teacher.
- Fields
- symphony, sonata, music and film score.
- Education
- Ukrainian National Academy of Music.
- Teachers
- Borys Liatoshynsky.
- Honours
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Polish Cultural Merit Order and Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
- Languages
- Russian.
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Igor Fyodorovich Belza or Boelza (Игорь Фёдорович Бэлза; 8 February 1904 – 5 January 1994) was a Soviet music historian and composer who wrote 4 symphonies, 5 piano sonatas, 2 cello sonatas, a string quartet, and several film scores for Alexander Dovzhenko. He was the father of Svyatoslav Belza, a showman and a TV personality. Boelza was born in Kielce into a noble Polish family which moved to Kyiv after the outbreak of the First World War.
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Igor Belza (died 1994) was a Russian and Soviet composer, literary critic and literary historian, among other activities. Born in Kielce, the composer died in Moscow.
Igor Belza studied at Ukrainian National Academy of Music. The composer worked for Moscow Conservatory and State Institute for Art Studies. Igor Belza was active in film score, literary criticism and music.
Languages used include Russian. The composer received Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Order of the Red Banner of Labour and Polish Cultural Merit Order.
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Igor Belza died at Moscow.
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He studied at the Kyiv Conservatory with Borys Lyatoshynsky. Belza delivered lectures in the Kyiv State University until the German invasion of Ukraine forced him to move to Moscow and join the staff of the Moscow Conservatory. Boelza authored a slate of books about Mozart (1941), Alexander Borodin (1944), Antonín Dvořák (1949), Reinhold Glière (1955), Maria Szymanowska (1956), Vítězslav Novák (1957), Frédéric Chopin (1960), Michał Kleofas Ogiński (1965), Alexander Scriabin (1982) and Karol Szymanowski (1984). He received a Doctorate, honoris causa, from the Charles University of Prague, in 1967.
Igor Belza studied at Ukrainian National Academy of Music. Training under Borys Liatoshynsky is recorded. Sergey Pavlovich Dobrovolsky is recorded as having studied under Igor Belza. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is symphony, sonata and music. Employment is recorded with Moscow Conservatory and State Institute for Art Studies. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Polish Cultural Merit Order and Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
• Igor Boelza. Handbook of Soviet Musicians. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1943 / 1971..
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- 1.G. Wisniewski. Igor Belza. Poznan, 1996.
- 2.Бэлза Игорь Федорович, biography in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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Igor Belza studied at Ukrainian National Academy of Music. The record notes the qualification Doctor of Sciences in History of art. He trained under Borys Liatoshynsky. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
The authorities additionally record the headings Igor Fyodorovich Boelza and Igor Fyodorovich Belza. His recorded language was Russian. One child is recorded: Svyatoslav Belza. Belza worked in symphony, sonata, music, film score and musicology. He was employed by Moscow Conservatory and State Institute for Art Studies. Belza received Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Polish Cultural Merit Order and Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta. Recorded as composer, musicologist, music educator, music historian and literary historian.
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