David Saliman-Vladimirov
David Saliman-Vladimirov (born Dovid-Munish Fishelovich Saliman; 27 May 1901 – 18 October 1992) was a Soviet composer, pianist, and conductor. He was born in Odesa into a family of musicians. He became an Honored Artist of the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1964, a People's Artist of the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1967, and an Honored Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1972.
From 1913 to 1919, he studied piano at the Petrograd Conservatory with Olga Kalantarova. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1932, where he studied with Reinhold Glière. Beginning in 1920, he appeared as a pianist-accompanist for such singers as Antonina Nezhdanova, Leonid Sobinov, Pyotr Tsessevich, Grigory Pirogov, and Sergei Migai; he also worked as a conductor from 1923 to 1938.
Saliman-Vladimirov held a succession of musical posts: he directed the music department of the Krasnodar Drama Theatre from 1920 to 1925, was a répétiteur at Moscow's Aquarium Opera Theatre in 1926–1927, and worked as a pianist for several Moscow concert organizations during the 1928–1937 period. He later served as music director and conductor of the Moscow Regional Philharmonic, assistant in the opera class of the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic, and music director of a miners' song-and-dance ensemble near Moscow.
His output included music for military wind orchestra, orchestral suites and overtures, symphonies, cantatas, a children's ballet, chamber music, piano music, études for wind instruments, songs, romances, and folk-song arrangements. Among his best-known marches were the “Ceremonial,” “Heroic,” “Concert,” and “Youth” marches, as well as the Hymn to the City of Yakutsk. His ballet The Buzzing Fly, based on Korney Chukovsky, was staged in Kazan in 1968.
He made a substantial contribution to the development of professional musical art in Yakutia. His compositions often drew on folk music, including Ukrainian, Yakut, Russian, Uzbek, Tajik, Turkmen, and Slavic materials. Works such as the Ukrainian March, Yakut March, Second Suite on Russian Themes, Third “Slavic” Suite, Albanian Suite, Yugoslav Suite, and Yakut Suite reflect this interest. His writing was noted for harmonic color, polyphonic enrichment of musical texture, and varied orchestration.
Notable larger-scale works included the cantatas Dawn of Freedom, Memory of the Heart, and Along Lenin's Path; the symphonies Kislovodsk, Sacred Ilmen, Cosmic, Light over Yakutia, Immortality, and Samantha; the orchestral work African Sketches; and the Requiem for the memorial of glory in Yessentuki. His works for wind orchestra included The Aurora Salvo, Korean Suite, Russian Suite, Dance Suite, Golden Aldan, and a number of marches. He received the Alexander Alexandrov Silver Medal in 1982. He died in Moscow in 1992 and was buried in Vostryakovskoye Cemetery.