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Russian composer
Vladimir Fyodorovich Vavilov
(
Russian
:
Влади?мир Фёдорович Вави?лов
; 5 May 1925 ? 11 March 1973)
[1]
was a Russian
guitarist
,
lutenist
and
composer
. He was a student of Pyotr Isakov (guitar) and Iogann Admoni (composition) at the Rimski-Korsakov Music College in
Leningrad
.
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Vavilov was active as a performer on both
lute
and
guitar
, as a music editor for a state music publishing house, and more importantly, as a composer. He routinely ascribed his own works to other composers, usually of the
Renaissance
or
Baroque
(occasionally from later eras), usually with total disregard of the appropriate style, in the spirit of other
mystificators
of the previous eras. His works achieved enormous circulation, and some of them achieved true folk-music status, with several poems set to his melodies.
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Vavilov died aged 47, of
pancreatic cancer
, a few months before the appearance of "The City of Gold", which became a hit overnight.
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The most famous of his anonymous or misattributed compositions are:
- "Canzona by
Francesco da Milano
". Poets
Anri Volokhonsky
and
Alexei Khvostenko
would later set lyrics to this music, the song called "The City of Gold" song (in Russian "Город Золотой"). The song, in turn, would become a hit in the 1980s when it was performed by
Aquarium
for the soundtrack for the film
Assa
.
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- "Mazurka by
Andrey Sychra
",
- "Elegy by
Mikhail Vyssotsky
",
- "Russian Melody (tremolo study) by
Mikhail Vyssotsky
",
- "Ricercar by Niccolo Nigrino",
- "Impromptu" by
Miliy Balakirev
.
- "
Ave Maria
". Vavilov wrote this
aria
with the ascription "
Anonymous
", and it was later mis-attributed to
Giulio Caccini
. It is often performed, notably by
Inessa Galante
,
Andrea Bocelli
,
Julian Lloyd Webber
,
Sumi Jo
and
Charlotte Church
, inter alia.
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