Born in Kiev on 11 August 1900, died in Moscow on 12 July 1973; Alexander Mosolov was a Russian composer. He studied composition with Nikolai Myaskovsky and piano with Konstantin Igumnov at the Moscow Conservatory. In the 1920s he belonged to the Association for Contemporary Music and became known for machine-music pieces, above all for the orchestral piece Zavod (The Iron Foundry, 1926/27). In 1936 he was expelled from the composers’ union, in 1937 arrested and sentenced to a labour camp; on the intercession of Reinhold Glière and Myaskovsky he was released in 1938. He then turned to folk-song-based and concertante works and collected folk music in several regions of the Soviet Union. In the Cybele catalogue an album of its own is devoted to him: Thomas Günther recorded his piano music for Piano Works around Russian Futurism (Vol. 3, 2016) on the Steinway D concert grand.
Alexander Mosolov
Composer
