Biography
Yan Abramovich Frenkel (Russian: Ян Абрамович Френкель) (November 21, 1920, Kyiv – August 25, 1989, Riga, USSR) was a popular Soviet Ukrainian composer and performer of Jewish descent. Yan Frenkel was a Russian Soviet composer born in Kyiv, Ukraine. He was originally taught violin by his father, and later studied classical violin at the Kiev Conservatory under Yakob Magaziner, and the piano. During the Second World War he was evacuated to Orenburg, where he entered at the Orenburg Antiaircraft Military School (Zenitnoe Uchilishche), and played the violin in the orchestra of the Avrora Cinema. In 1942 he served at the front lines and was wounded. After the hospital, since 1943 played in the military orchestra. или в 1918/1919 году After the war, since 1946 he lived in Moscow, where he wrote orchestral arrangements and played the violin in small orchestras.
He began composing songs in the 1960s. His first was the song Gody ('The Years'), written to lyrics by Mark Lisianski. During his later career he worked in collaboration with many prominent Soviet musicians, including Mikhail Tanich, Igor Shaferan, and the husband and wife team Konstantin Vanshenkin and Inna Goff]. Thanks to Mark Bernes his song Zhuravli ('The Cranes', lyrics by Rasul Gamzatov) became a major hit. Frenkel gave concerts in which he performed his own music. During these concerts the audience would generally join in. His songs were included in the repertoire of many Soviet performers. He also appeared in the movie The Elusive Avengers, for which he composed a score.
Yan Frenkel died on August 25, 1989, in Riga (as foreshadowed in his song Avgust ('August') to the lyrics of Inna Goff). His wife Natalia died in the mid-1990s, but his daughter Nina has lived in Italy since the 1980s. His grandson Ian Frenkel is a musician (pianist and arranger) in the United States Coast Guard Band.
Filmography
all 49
Movies 46
TV Shows 3
self 2
Как уходили кумиры (2005)
Вознесение (1989)
Дорогое удовольствие (1988)
The Cock and Boyar (1986)
The City of Brides (1985)
Cucumber Horse (1985)
White Dew (1983)
I Am Returning Your Portrait (1983)
Birthday (1982)
The Uninvited Friend (1981)
Выгодный контракт (1980)
Masha and the Magic Jam (1979)
Comrade Nikanorova Awaits You (1979)
Man and Women (1978)
Отклонение - ноль (1978)
Masha bolshe ne lentyayka (1978)
A Collar for Marquis (1977)
Как Маша поссорилась с подушкой (1977)
The Brave Tin Soldier (1976)
We Didn't Learn This (1976)
Войникът от обоза (1975)
When September Comes (1975)
Kysh and TwoBriefcases (1974)
Because I Love (1974)
Flight Is Postponed (1974)
Yeralash (1974)
Country House (1973)
Incorrigible Liar (1973)
Двое в пути (1973)
The Fourth (1972)
The Boy from 5B (1972)
The Day Ahead (1971)
Crown of Russian Empire, or the Elusives Again (1970)
Ищите и найдете (1970)
The Adventures of the Yellow Suitcase (1970)
Passing Through Moscow (1970)
Про Клаву Иванову (1970)
New Girl (1969)
Men's Talk (1969)
The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers (1968)
The Wave Runner (1967)
Devil With a Briefcase (1966)
Women (1965)
Short Stories (1963)
The Piggy Bank (1963)
Tale About Another's Paint (1962)
Dve skazki (1962)
Всего дороже (1957)
Дорога правды (1956)
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Known ForSound
GenderMale
Birthday1920-11-21
Deathday1989-08-25 (68 years old)
Birth PlaceKyiv, Ukraine
CitizenshipsSoviet Union
Also Known AsЯн Френкель
AwardsUSSR State Prize, Order of Friendship of Peoples, People's Artist of the USSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
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