Mikhail Ferkelman

Mikhail (Moisey) Yakovlevich Ferkelman was a Soviet composer. He was born on 25 May 1908 in Tiflis, then in the Russian Empire, and died on 13 August 1977 in Leningrad, USSR.

In 1925 he entered the Tbilisi Conservatory as a piano student. In 1929 he moved to Leningrad, where he continued his studies at the 2nd Music Technical School in the class of Professor O. K. Kalantarova. From 1930 he studied at the Leningrad Conservatory in composition theory with Professor M. O. Steinberg. In 1935 he completed his diploma work, the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra.

From 1930 to 1937, and again from 1945, Ferkelman worked as an accompanist pianist and ensemble musician, while also composing in various genres. In 1938 the Leningrad Theater of Musical Comedy staged his operetta My Beloved, written jointly with L. A. Khodzha-Eynatov. In 1940 the Leningrad Regional Theater of Musical Comedy staged his second operetta, Daughter of Florida.

During 1942-1944 he served as musical director of the Ensemble of the Transcaucasian Military District. After the war he composed songs, more than one hundred in total, as well as instrumental popular-stage music. Among his known songs are Evening Song, Leningrad Waltz, March of the Leningraders, Mashenka, Do Not Speak of Love, Song of My Little Town, and Taiga Song.

His published collections include Eight Slavic Folk Songs in arrangement for voice and piano, Selected Songs for the Stage, Variety Duets, Variety Songs, Songs for Schoolchildren, and the collection Songs. Some sources incorrectly give his year of death as 1974, but the article states that he died in 1977.

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