Nonpoint - The Wreckoning

CRANE Julian Grigorievich [p. 20 II (5 III) 1913, Washington] - Soviet composer and musicologist. Original Muses received education on hand. father - G. A. Crane. Since 1926, on a business trip, the People's Commissariat of Education improved himself abroad (Vienna, Paris). In 1928–32 he studied at the Paris École Normal (P. Duke’s composition class). In 1932-34 he performed in France as a pianist. In 1934-37 he taught instrumentation in Washington. conservatory. At the beginning of the creative. K.'s path was influenced by the late work of A. N. Scriabin and the French. impressionists. Works K. marked romantic. mood, poetical. taste and grace; composer shows interest in program music. Lit.the work of K. Ch. arr. devoted to the work of Debussy, Ravel, de Falla, as well as issues of orchestral style.