All Topics  
Evgeny Kliachkin

 

 
   Email Print
   Bookmark   Link
 

 

Evgeny Kliachkin
 
 
  Topics Evgeny Kliachkin Topic Home

Evgeny Isaakovich Kliachkin (Russian: ??????? ???????; March 23 1934 in Leningrad – July 30 1994 in Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
) was a Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n bard
Bard (Soviet Union)

The term bard came to be used in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, and continues to be used in Russia today, to refer to singer-songwriters who wrote songs outside the Soviet establishment....
, singer, and composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
.

chkin graduated from the Leningrad Engineering and Building Institute in 1957 and began working as an engineer
Engineer

An engineer is a person professionally engaged in a field of engineering. Engineers are concerned with developing economical and safe solutions to practical problems, by applying mathematics and scientific knowledge while considering technical constraints....
 at various building organizations in Leningrad
Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
.

He began to compose songs in 1961. At first his songs were based upon other poets' lyrics, but he soon began to write his own as well, accompanying himself on a Russian seven-stringed guitar
Russian guitar

The Russian guitar is a seven-string acoustic guitar that arrived in Russia toward the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, most probably as an evolution of the cittern, kobza, and torban....
.

In total, Evgeny Kliachkin composed more than 300 songs, 70 of them set to other poets' lyrics.






Discussion
Ask a question about 'Evgeny Kliachkin'
Start a new discussion about 'Evgeny Kliachkin'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum



Encyclopedia


Evgeny Isaakovich Kliachkin (Russian: ??????? ???????; March 23 1934 in Leningrad – July 30 1994 in Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
) was a Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n bard
Bard (Soviet Union)

The term bard came to be used in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, and continues to be used in Russia today, to refer to singer-songwriters who wrote songs outside the Soviet establishment....
, singer, and composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
.

Biography

Kliachkin graduated from the Leningrad Engineering and Building Institute in 1957 and began working as an engineer
Engineer

An engineer is a person professionally engaged in a field of engineering. Engineers are concerned with developing economical and safe solutions to practical problems, by applying mathematics and scientific knowledge while considering technical constraints....
 at various building organizations in Leningrad
Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
.

He began to compose songs in 1961. At first his songs were based upon other poets' lyrics, but he soon began to write his own as well, accompanying himself on a Russian seven-stringed guitar
Russian guitar

The Russian guitar is a seven-string acoustic guitar that arrived in Russia toward the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, most probably as an evolution of the cittern, kobza, and torban....
.

In total, Evgeny Kliachkin composed more than 300 songs, 70 of them set to other poets' lyrics. In 1990, Evgeny Kliachkin emigrate
Emigrate

Emigrate is the name of a band led by Richard Z. Kruspe, guitarist and founder of Rammstein....
d to Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 with his family. He gave concerts in Israel and in the USA. In 1994, he toured in Russia.

Awards

  • Amateur Singers and Composers contest in Leningrad - laureate
    Laureate

    In English language, the word laureate has come to signify eminence or association with literary or military glory. It is also used for winners of the Nobel Prize....
     of the first and the second. (1965, 1967)
  • Tourist songs contest in Brest, Belarus
    Brest, Belarus

    For other uses, see BrestBrest , formerly also Brest-on-the-Bug and Brest-Litovsk, is a city in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the city of Terespol, where the Western Bug River and Mukhavets River rivers meet....
     - laureate. (1965)
  • All-Russia tourist songs contest in Moscow
    Moscow

    Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
     - laureate of the second (1969)


Works


Books

  • "Don't Look Back" song book collection (1994)
  • "Looking Back at My Life" (1999)
  • "We live till we are loved" (2000)


Discography

  • "Autumn motif" (1987)
  • "Pilgrims" (1990)
  • "To Russia" (1995)
  • "To my contemporaries" (1995)
  • "Wet waltz" and "Melody to the boat's rhythm" (1995)
  • "To my contemporaries" (1996)
  • "Beginnings and ends" (1996)
  • "Nothing to feel sorry for". (1999)
  • "The best songs" (2000)
  • "Evgeny Kliachkin. Russian bards" (2001)


His songs "Don't look back", "A song about the morning city", "Pskov", "Child's picture", "Coming back", "Wet waltz", "To my contemporaries" are some of his more notable songs.