Military songs about war and their authors

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Jihad was written by the poet Valebedev Kumachi, and composed by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, the first head of the Soviet Red Flag Song and Dance Troupe. Known as the "Soviet Patriotic War Music Monument".

194 1 On June 22nd, Nazi troops invaded the Soviet Union. Bombs destroyed hundreds of cities and thousands of peaceful residents died in gunfire. The poet Wa lebedev Kumachi wrote a famous poem with pain and anger: "Rise, great country ...". On the third day of the war, this poem was published in Izvestia and Red Star (later won the Stalin Prize for Literature and Art). On the same day, a Red Army commander found Alexander Rove, head of the Red Flag Song and Dance Troupe, with a newspaper. This poem expressed the feelings of all the Soviets and deeply touched Alexander Rove, who read it repeatedly on his way home from work. He set the poem to music overnight. The next morning, he copied the songs on the blackboard in the rehearsal hall. It was too late to mimeograph and copy the chorus score, so everyone copied the lyrics and songs in their notebooks. On the morning of June 27th, the Red Flag Song and Dance Troupe sang this song for the first time in Moscow Belarus Station. According to Aleksandrov's son bolis Aleksandrov, he recalled the scene at that time: "I remember the soldiers who sat in crude military wooden boxes and smoked. After listening to the first section of Jihad, they suddenly stood up, put out their cigarettes, listened to us quietly, and then asked us to sing again and again ... "

Jihad is the first song to respond to the Great Patriotic War, which occupies an extremely important position in the chronicle of Soviet songs and is known as "the musical monument of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union". This song has a characteristic, the rhythm is written in three beats, but it has the characteristic of two beats like a parade.

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883- 1946), Soviet People's Artist (1937), winner of Soviet National Literature and Art Award (1942, 1946). He was born in a peasant family. 1900- 1902 studied at Petersburg Conservatory of Music, 1909 entered the Department of Composition and Vocal Music of Moscow Conservatory of Music, and 19 13 graduated with a silver medal. 1928 Soviet red flag song and dance troupe was the head, artistic director and chorus conductor when it was founded until 1946 died. Alexander Rove is the composer of the national anthem of the Soviet Union (1943). His most famous works include Jihad and Song of the Soviet Union.

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