Aleksandr Lokshin

Russian composer

Aleksandr Lazarevich Lokshin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ла́заревич Локши́н) (1920–1987) was a Soviet composer of classical music. He was born on 19 September 1920 in the town of Biysk, in the Altai Region, Western Siberia, and died in Moscow on 11 June 1987.

An admirer of Mahler and Alban Berg, he created his own musical language; he wrote eleven symphonies plus symphonic works including Les Fleurs du Mal (1939, on Baudelaire's poems), Three Scenes from Goethe's Faust (1973, 1980), the cantata Mater Dolorosa (1977, on verses from Akhmatova's Requiem). Only his Symphony No 4 is purely instrumental; all his other symphonies include vocal parts. Symphony No 3 by Lokshin was written on Kipling's verses, and a ballet Fedra was staged to music from Symphony No 4. Lokshin also wrote a cycle of piano variations for Maria Grinberg (1953) and another one for Yelena Kushnerova (1982).

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Works

Songs of Margaret
Songs of Margaret: I. Andante
Songs of Margaret: II. Theme. Andantino
Songs of Margaret: III. Variation I. Lento
Songs of Margaret: IV. Variation II. Allegro assai
Songs of Margaret: V. Intermedia and Variation III. Lo stesso tempo
Songs of Margaret: VI. Variation IV. Larghetto
Songs of Margaret: VII. Coda. Andante
Symphony no. 10
Symphony no. 10: I. Introduction. Andante
Symphony no. 10: II. Main Theme. Adagio. Chorus. "In the birch tree grove"
Symphony no. 10: III. Variation I. Animato. Contralto. "This happened long time ago"
Symphony no. 10: IV. Intermedia I. Adagio. Chorus
Symphony no. 10: V. Variation II. Adagio. "With the face thrown up to the sky"
Symphony no. 10: VI. Intermedia II. Chorus
Symphony no. 10: VII. Variation III. Adagio. "With wide brimmed hats, long jackets, with books filled with their own poems"
Symphony no. 10: VIII. Choral. Chorus. "The speech of lovers is broken, the last starling has flown"
Symphony no. 11
Symphony no. 11: Coda
Symphony no. 11: Introduzione
Symphony no. 11: Tema
Symphony no. 11: Variation I
Symphony no. 11: Variation II
Symphony no. 11: Variation III
Symphony no. 11: Variation IV
Symphony no. 11: Variation V
Symphony no. 11: Variation VI
Symphony no. 11: Variation VII
Symphony no. 11: Variation VIII
Symphony no. 4 "Sinfonia stretta": I. Introduzione
Symphony no. 4 "Sinfonia stretta": II. Tema
Symphony no. 4 "Sinfonia stretta": III. Variation I
Symphony no. 4 "Sinfonia stretta": IV. Variation II
Symphony no. 4 "Sinfonia stretta": IX. Conclusione
Symphony no. 4 "Sinfonia stretta": V. Variation III
Symphony no. 4 "Sinfonia stretta": VI. Variation IV
Symphony no. 4 "Sinfonia stretta": VII. Variation V
Symphony no. 4 "Sinfonia stretta": VIII. Variation VI
Symphony no. 5 "Shakespeare's Sonnets"
Symphony no. 5 "Shakespeare's Sonnets": I. "Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry"
Symphony no. 5 "Shakespeare's Sonnets": II. "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"
Symphony no. 7
Symphony no. 7: I. Introduction. Commodo
Symphony no. 7: II. Tema. Sostenuto
Symphony no. 7: III. Variation I. Larghetto. "My sorrow not that you forgot so soon"
Symphony no. 7: IV. Variation II. Animato. "The road that leads to me is full of flowers"
Symphony no. 7: V. Variation III. Adagio. "Full of sorrow, he left his home"
Symphony no. 7: VI. Variation IV. Allegretto. "The moon faintly shines in the morning"
Symphony no. 7: VII. Variation V. Andante. "I know day will come, but night is then to follow"
Symphony no. 7: VIII. Variation VI. Lento. "It is not snow that sheds night flowers in orchards"
Symphony no. 9
Symphony no. 9: I. Introduzione
Symphony no. 9: II. Burlesca
Symphony no. 9: III. Marcia
Symphony no. 9: IV. Toccata
Symphony no. 9: V. Finale
Three Scenes from Goethe's Faust
Three Scenes from Goethe's Faust: I. Andante
Three Scenes from Goethe's Faust: II. Adagio
Three Scenes from Goethe's Faust: III. Andante con variazioni