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"Katyusha" (Russian: Катюша [kɐˈtʲuʂə] ⓘ; a diminutive form of Екатерина, Yekaterina, 'Katherine') is a Soviet-era folk-based song and military march composed by Matvey Blanter in 1938, with lyrics in Russian written by the Soviet poet Mikhail Isakovsky.
Authentic Russian folk music is primarily vocal. Russian folk song was an integral part of daily village life. It was sung from morning to night, and reflected the four seasons and significant events in villagers' lives. Its roots are in the Orthodox church services where significant parts are sung.
Vasily Fyodorovich Trutovsky (Russian: Василий Фёдорович Трутовский) (c. 1740 – c. 1810) was a Russian folk-song collector, gusli player, and composer, in the Russian Empire. He compiled and published the earliest printed collection of Russian folk-music.
Matvey Isaakovich Blanter [a] (10 February [O.S. 28 January] 1903 – 27 September 1990) was a Soviet composer, and one of the most prominent composers of popular songs and film music in the Soviet Union. [1] Among many other works, he wrote the famous "Katyusha" (1938), performed to this day internationally. He was active as a composer until ...
He was one of the founders of the Soviet genre called "author song" (авторская песня, avtorskaya pesnya), or "guitar song", and the author of about 200 songs, set to his own poetry. His songs are a mixture of Russian poetic and folk song traditions and the French chansonnier style represented by such contemporaries of Okudzhava as ...
Due to his efforts, in 1975 the choir became laureates of the First All Russian screening competition of state folk choirs in Moscow, and again in 1984. In October 1988, by order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the choir was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples , and in 1990 became a laureate of the Taras Shevchenko ...
Grande Fantasie on Russian Folk Songs, Op. 4, for piano and orchestra (1852) Piano Sonata No. 1 in B ♭ minor, Op. 5 (1855-56) Overture on a Spanish March Theme, orchestra, Op. 6 (1857)
Many composers (including Yuri Shaporin, [18] Anatoly Alexandrov, [19] Serge Jaroff [20]) arranged the song. In 1951 Nikolay Chaykin wrote his Concerto for Bayan and Orchestra No. 1 ; the final part of this composition contains a theme based on the melody of Vo Kuznitse .