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Composer Oscar Feltsman turns 90

18.02.2011 [19:17]
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Baku, February 18 (AZERTAC). Popular Soviet and Russian composer Oscar Feltsman turns 90 today. Starting with musical comedies at the beginning of his career, Feltsman subsequently combined producing traditional classical music with writing music for circuses and children`s variety shows. After around 1952 Feltsman started to write popular songs. The first of these was “Cruise” based on poems by B. Dragunsky and L. Davidovich and performed by Leonid Utyosov as well as “Lilies Of The Valley”, which was based on poetry by Olga Fadeeva. Feltsman is also an author of a number of chamber works: ten romances on the poems of Inna Lisnyanskaya, the cycle of romances on the poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva, etc.

According to Russian press, President of Russia Dmitriy Medvedev congratulated the composer and awarded him with the Order “For Service to the Fatherland” of second degree.