Vladimir Yurovskiy

Vladimir Mikhailovich Jurowski (Yurovskiy) (1915–1972) was a Ukrainian film music composer. He was born in the small Ukrainian town Tarashcha, and inevitably moved on from the best Kiev had to offer to the Moscow Conservatory. There he was taught by Miaskovsky amongst others. His success in the world of Soviet film music (feature and cartoon) was supplemented with a modest string of works in other media. There are four other symphonies, a ballet Scarlet Sails, oratorios Heroic Deeds of the People and The Song of a Hero, two string quartets, a piano concerto and the tone poems Moscow Carnival, Red Square and Processions. One of his last works is Russian Painters, completed one year before his death in 1972. In this orchestral piece, Yurovsky refers to seven Russian paintings of the 19th century, which inspired the composition of this music. Vladimir Jurowski was the father of the conductor, Michail Jurowski. He was also the grandfather of his namesake Vladimir Jurowski (born 1972), the principal conductor and artistic director of the LPO, and of Dmitri Jurowski (born 1979), conductor of the Moscow City Symphony.