Yevgeny Ovchinnikov
Yevgeny Ovchinnikov (1903–1965) was a Soviet composer. He was born in Saint Petersburg and died in Leningrad.
He entered the Leningrad Conservatory in 1921 and completed his studies as an external student in 1926. He also studied composition with M. M. Chernov at the M. I. Glinka Music College, now the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. He worked as an accompanist for amateur arts groups in Leningrad.
In 1947, on Dmitri Shostakovich’s recommendation, Ovchinnikov joined the Union of Soviet Composers. He wrote many chamber and vocal works, including a piano trio (1926), sonatas for violin and piano and for cello and piano (both 1927), a suite for two violins, viola, cello, and piano (1941), and a sonata-poem (1940; revised in 1960).
His other works include piano preludes and études, a waltz, a scherzo, and variations on an old song for guitar. His vocal works include romances and songs, as well as music for the dramatic productions Jimmy Higgins (1931), based on Upton Sinclair, and Breakthrough of the Cultural Front (1931).