Alexander Tupitsyn
Alexander Fyodorovich Tupitsyn (18 [31] August 1914 – 1998) was a Soviet military conductor and a People’s Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. He was born in the village of Kokhma, Vladimir Governorate, now in Ivanovo Oblast.
From 1932 to 1939, Tupitsyn led an amateur children’s wind orchestra at the House of Pioneers in Moscow. From 1943, he conducted wind orchestras and various ensembles of the Soviet Army.
He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1946, where he studied with Lev Ginzburg. Between 1955 and 1974, he served as artistic director and conductor of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Moscow Air Defence District. From 1974, he taught at the October Revolution Moscow Music College.
From 1980, Tupitsyn was artistic director and chief conductor of the Combined Wind Orchestra of Moscow motor-transport enterprises. His work included marches, fantasies and arrangements for wind orchestra.
His arrangements included the marches “Sailors’ Glory,” “Naval Komsomol,” “Restless Hearts,” and “BAM,” as well as marches based on songs by Vano Muradeli, Serafim Tulikov, Tikhon Khrennikov, Oscar Feltsman, Boris Terentyev, Sigmund Katz, Nikita Bogoslovsky and Vladimir Levashov. He also wrote a fantasy on themes from Khrennikov’s songs and arrangements based on wartime, miners’, pioneer, motorists’ and revolutionary songs.
Tupitsyn was named an Honoured Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1962 and a People’s Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1968. He died in Moscow in 1998 and was buried in the columbarium of Kuntsevo Cemetery.