Boris Kravchenko Explained

Boris Petrovich Kravchenko (Борис Петрович Кравченко) (29 November 1929 in Leningrad  - 9 February 1979 in Leningrad) was a Russian composer.^[1]

Works

• Puppet opera for the State Puppet Theatre of Fairy Tales after Pushkin's The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda (Сказка о попе и работнике его Балде) 1972^[2]

Notes and References

1. http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enc_music/3980/Кравченко Bio in Russian
2. Georgi Turayev "The State Puppet Theatre of Fairy Tales" in ed. Malcolm Knight Proceedings of the Soviet/British Puppetry Conference: Glasgow 1992 p52 "The composer Boris Kravchenko, an old friend who wrote music for many of the company's productions, ... Boris Kravchenko wrote wonderful music, similar to folk music, which followed the simple and expressive style of Russian folk songs "