Anatoly Vasilyevich Bogatyrev was a Belarusian Soviet composer and teacher. He was born on August 13, 1913, in Vitebsk, in the Russian Empire. He is described as the founder of the Belarusian national school of composition.
He graduated from the Belarusian State Conservatory named after A. V. Lunacharsky in 1937, where he studied in the class of V. A. Zolotaryov. From 1948 he taught at the Belarusian Academy of Music, and from 1948 to 1962 he served as its rector. From 1938 to 1949 he was chairman of the board of the Union of Composers of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. He was also a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1938 to 1959. He became a professor in 1960 and had been a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1954.
Among Bogatyrev's best-known stage works was the opera In the Forests of Polesia, based on Yakub Kolas's story Drygva, staged in 1939. Another opera, Nadezhda Durova, dates from 1946 and was staged by the Soviet Opera Ensemble of the All-Russian Theatrical Society in 1947.
His vocal-symphonic works included The Tale of the She-Bear for soloists, chorus, and symphony orchestra to words by Alexander Pushkin (1937), To the Belarusian Partisans to words by Yanka Kupala (1942), Belarus to words by Yanka Kupala, Petrus Brovka, and Petrus Trus (1949), Leningraders to words by Jambyl Jabayev (1942), and Belarusian Songs to folk texts and words by Nil Gilevich (1967). His other works included Drawings of the Native Land, which received the State Prize of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1969.
Bogatyrev also composed chamber and instrumental music, including a Piano Trio (1943), sonatas for violin and piano (1946), cello and piano (1951), and piano (1958), as well as a Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra (1963–1964).
He received the Stalin Prize, second class, in 1941 for the opera In the Forests of Polesia. Among his other honors were the title Honored Artist of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (1944), People's Artist of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (1968), People's Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1981), the Medal of Francysk Skaryna (1993), the Order of Francysk Skaryna (1998), three Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of the October Revolution, and honorary citizenship of the city of Vitebsk (2001).
He died on September 19, 2003. He was buried in Minsk at the Eastern Cemetery.
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