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Browse piano sheets by Vasily Agapkin on Zen Virtual Piano. Vasily Ivanovich Agapkin was born on 3 February 1884 and died on 29 October 1964. He was a Russian and Soviet military orchestra conductor and composer, and the author of the well-known march Farewell of Slavianka, composed in 1912. From 1912 to 1915 he studied at the Tambov musical school, where he composed the popular patriotic march, and he later served in the army. In 1899–1906 he served as a hired musician in various military orchestras in the Caucasus, and sent most of his pay home. Years as a hired military musician in the Caucasus and, later, study at a musical school can be read as two different kinds of musical education. In 1918 he voluntarily joined the Red Army and organized a brass band in the 1st Red Hussar Regiment, and in 1920 he returned to Tambov, directing the music studio and orchestra of the GPU troops. The Agapkin Orchestra took part in the ceremony of Vladimir Lenin’s state funeral in January 1924, and in 1928 he organized a brass band of street children; for many of them it marked the start of a career as a professional musician. Brass bands organized in a regiment and for street children, and an orchestra directed for the GPU troops, can be read as music-making set up inside very different groups. He led the combined Russian military bands during the Red Square parade of 7 November 1941, at which Farewell of Slavianka was one of four marches played, and in honour of his role it has since been played as the final march in Victory Day Parades. A march composed in 1912 that is still played as the final march in Victory Day Parades has a use reaching well beyond its year of composition.
Browse piano sheets by Vasily Agapkin on Zen Virtual Piano.
Vasily Ivanovich Agapkin was born on 3 February 1884 and died on 29 October 1964. He was a Russian and Soviet military orchestra conductor and composer, and the author of the well-known march Farewell of Slavianka, composed in 1912. From 1912 to 1915 he studied at the Tambov musical school, where he composed the popular patriotic march, and he later served in the army. In 1899–1906 he served as a hired musician in various military orchestras in the Caucasus, and sent most of his pay home. Years as a hired military musician in the Caucasus and, later, study at a musical school can be read as two different kinds of musical education.
In 1918 he voluntarily joined the Red Army and organized a brass band in the 1st Red Hussar Regiment, and in 1920 he returned to Tambov, directing the music studio and orchestra of the GPU troops. The Agapkin Orchestra took part in the ceremony of Vladimir Lenin’s state funeral in January 1924, and in 1928 he organized a brass band of street children; for many of them it marked the start of a career as a professional musician. Brass bands organized in a regiment and for street children, and an orchestra directed for the GPU troops, can be read as music-making set up inside very different groups.
He led the combined Russian military bands during the Red Square parade of 7 November 1941, at which Farewell of Slavianka was one of four marches played, and in honour of his role it has since been played as the final march in Victory Day Parades. A march composed in 1912 that is still played as the final march in Victory Day Parades has a use reaching well beyond its year of composition.
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Vasily Ivanovich Agapkin (1884–1964) was a Russian and Soviet military orchestra conductor and composer, author of the march Farewell of Slavianka.
It was composed in 1912, while Agapkin was studying at the Tambov musical school.
In 1918 he voluntarily joined the Red Army and organized a brass band in the 1st Red Hussar Regiment.
Agapkin led the combined Russian military bands during the Red Square parade of 7 November 1941, at which Farewell of Slavianka was one of four marches played.