The Film Music Orchestra - Prizzis Honour: Overture The Barber of Seville

AFANASIEV Nikolay Yakovlevich [31 XII 1820 (12 I 1821), Tobolsk - 22 V (3 VI) 1898, Petersburg] - Russian. violinist, composer and pianist-teacher. He studied music on hand. father - violinist Yakov Ivanovich A. In 1838-41, violinist of the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra. In 1841-46, the bandmaster of the serf theater of the landowner I. I. Shepelev in Vyksa. In 1851-58, the violinist of St. Petersburg. ital. operas. In 1853-83 he was a teacher at the Smolny Institute (class of Ph. D. ). Since 1846, many gave a concert (in 1857 - in Western Europe). One of the largest Russian. violinists, representative romantic. schools. The author is numerous. produ. , among which stands out the strings. quartet “Volga” (1860, pr. RMO, 1861), main on the development of songs of the Volga peoples. Its strings. quartets, quintets - valuable samples of Russian. chamber music in the period preceding the chamber compositions of A. P. Borodin and P. I. Tchaikovsky.