Veniamin Basner
Illustration — Basner on a 2025 postal cover of Russia Veniamin Efimovich Basner (1 January 1925 in Yaroslavl – 3 September 1996 in St Petersburg) was a Russian composer. He was recognized by the Soviet Union as a People's Artist of Russia and a State prize-winner. An asteroid called 4267 Basner, discovered in 1971, was named in his honour.
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Veniamin Basner
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- Born
- 1925 · Yaroslavl.
- Died
- 1996 · Repino.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union · Russia
- Occupation
- composer
- Fields
- classical
- Education
- Saint Petersburg Conservatory
- Honours
- Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR · People's Artist of the RSFSR · Order of Friendship · Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic · Order of the October Revolution · Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Languages
- Russian
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Illustration — Basner on a 2025 postal cover of Russia Veniamin Efimovich Basner (1 January 1925 in Yaroslavl – 3 September 1996 in St Petersburg) was a Russian composer. He was recognized by the Soviet Union as a People's Artist of Russia and a State prize-winner. An asteroid called 4267 Basner, discovered in 1971, was named in his honour.
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Early life and initial success
Early life and initial success
He was a member of the St Petersburg Union of Composers.
Veniamin Basner studied at Saint Petersburg Conservatory. The recorded working language is Russian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical. Distinctions recorded are Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Order of Friendship and Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
Veniamin Basner had been playing the violin from the age of six and graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory in 1949 with the violin as his principal instrument. Basner made his first experiments in composition at the age of fifteen. In 1955 he was a prize-winner, for his Second String Quartet, at the International Composers' Competition in Warsaw.
Basner and Shostakovich
Basner and Shostakovich
Veniamin Basner, while still a student, met Dmitri Shostakovich, under whose advice his formation as a professional composer was furthered. They became personal friends. Much later, Basner and Weinberg were amongst the six friends of Shostakovich (the others being Kara Karayev, Yury Levitin, Karen Khachaturian, and Boris Tishchenko) who rejected the controversial Testimony (Свидетельство), said to be the "authenticated memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich." (As stated in the article on Testimony.)
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Identity
Veniamin Basner is recorded as having received Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR and Order of Friendship.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1996
Veniamin Basner died at Repino.
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Yaroslavl.
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Repino.
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Compositions
Basner’s musical output spanned a wide spectrum in terms of genre and emotional substance. It encompasses, at the more academic end, thirteen works for musical theatre, symphonic suites, three symphonies, vocal symphonic cycles, two concertos and five quartets, which have been performed to critical acclaim in Russia and beyond. At a more popular level, he became widely known, reaching millions of people through his film music – for more than a hundred productions – and his over three hundred song compositions. Biographer Uteshev praises Basner chiefly for “an inspired lyricism [which] powerfully permeates all his art.”
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Veniamin Basner received Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Order of Friendship, Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Order of the October Revolution and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
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