Markian Frolov was a Soviet composer and pianist. He was born on December 18, 1892, in Bobruisk, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire, in the family of an employee.
In 1921 he graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory, and in 1924 from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He studied piano with N. N. Poznyakovskaya and Felix Blumenfeld, and composition with S. S. Bogatyryov and Reinhold Gliere.
From 1924 he began concert and teaching work at the Kyiv Conservatory and at the Music and Drama Institute. From 1928 to 1934 he taught piano and theoretical subjects at the Sverdlovsk Music Technical School. In 1934-1937 and again in 1943-1944 he served as director of the Sverdlovsk Conservatory, and from 1935 he headed its composition department.
As a pianist, Frolov performed with the orchestra conducted by Palitsyn at the Sverdlovsk Opera and Ballet Theatre and with many others. His repertoire included classical works by Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, and Alexander Scriabin, as well as his own compositions.
He was chairman of the board of the Sverdlovsk branch of the Union of Composers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1932 to 1944. In 1944 he was awarded the title Honored Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. He also received the Order of the Red Banner of Labor in 1940 for outstanding services in the development of Buryat-Mongolian theatrical and musical art.
Among his works were a Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1924), the oratorio Poem about the Urals (1936), the first Buryat opera Enkhe-Bulat-Bator (1940), based on motifs from the Buryat national epic, an overture on two Buryat-Mongolian and Mongolian themes (1943), the symphonic picture Gray-Haired Ural, and chamber-instrumental compositions.
Frolov died on October 30, 1944, in Sverdlovsk, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union. He was buried at Mikhailovskoye Cemetery together with his wife Yekaterina Pavlovna, and their daughter was Svetlana. His memory was later honored with a memorial plaque installed on the conservatory building in 1984, and since 2010 Children's Music School No. 1 in Yekaterinburg has borne his name.
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