Post from 9th May 2020.
Sharing one more commemorative post today, due to this year being the 75th anniversary of the end of the struggle against Nazism. From September 1941 to January 1944 the city of Leningrad (modern-day St Petersburg) was encircled by axis forces. During the siege hundreds of thousands, if not over a million, Leningraders died from starvation, shelling and bombing. One of these people was the composer Boris Grigoryevich Goltz. He graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory in piano and composition. Goltz died in Leningrad on the 3rd of March 1942, at the age of 28. Very little is known about Goltz and some information is contradictory. His compositions include a set of 24 piano preludes.
Here are a few of them.
Prelude No 3 https://youtu.be/5la-YK5qYRU
Prelude No 22 https://youtu.be/OvHJn9G3kHk
And here is Elegy No 1 for balalaika and piano:
https://youtu.be/9pKX3OZ6tzU
Thank you for reading.