Arkadiy Ostrovskiy

Arkadiy (Abraham) Ilyich Ostrovskiy (February 25, 1914, Syzran, Russian Empire - September 18, 1967, Sochi, RSFSR, USSR) - Soviet songwriter, composer. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1965). Songs written in the 1960s ("Let there always be sunshine", "Tired toys sleep", "I am very happy", "Lumberjacks", "Childhood gone into the distance" and a number of others) gained national fame. Since 1927 he lived in Leningrad, studied at the Federal University. In 1930 he entered the music college. In the same year, his mother Sofya Emanuilovna Ostrovskaya died. From 1935 until the start of World War II, he played the accordion in the Leningrad Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Emil Kemper. From 1940 to 1947, Ostrovsky worked as an accordionist and pianist in Leonid Utesov's jazz orchestra, and made arrangements for him. In the same years he wrote the first songs. Two of his songs - "I am Demobilized" (words of Ilya Fradkin) and "Native Side" (words of Sergei Mikhalkov) were performed and recorded by Utesov. He became widely known shortly after leaving the orchestra and meeting with the poet Lev Oshanin - in 1948 their song "Komsomol members - restless hearts" received the first prize of the competition for the best song about Komsomol members. In the same year, Ostrovsky was admitted to the Union of Composers of the USSR. In 1954, Claudia Shulzhenko on the radio performed his song "My Old Park" (to the words of V. Bakhnov and Y. Kostyukovsky), which became popular, although it was originally sung to her, but with a different text and title ("Urgent Kiss" on words of Y. Zeitlin) back in 1945. Tomb of Ostrovsky at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow. In 1956 he moved with his family to a cooperative apartment in a new residential building at 13 Ogaryova Street, at the Central House of the Composer in Bryusov Lane. Arkady Ostrovsky became the author of songs dedicated to the World Festivals of Youth and Students. And in July 1962, the composer wrote the song "Let there always be sunshine" on the verses of Lev Oshanin, which received the first prize at the International Song Festival in Sopot. In 1962-1965 he created the lyric song cycle "And in our yard" to the words of L. Oshanin, which included five songs - "And in our yard", "And again in the yard", "I will wait for you", " Here is this courtyard again "," Childhood has gone into the distance. " Ostrovsky's songs were performed by Eduard Gil, Joseph Kobzon, Muslim Magomaev, Maya Kristalinskaya, Edita Pyekha, Oleg Anofriev, Leonid Ekimov and others.