Zaderatsky Orchestrated

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Vsevolod Petrovich Zaderatsky, 1891 - 1953 • These pieces originally written for piano by obscure Soviet Era composer, Vsevolod Zaderatsky, came to me in the form of 2-3 track midi files. • It is a pity Zaderatsky was forever at odds with the Soviet cultural regime, but he most certainly was. Busted twice for cultural wrong doing, the first time at age 26, in 1918. His work was taken from him on these and other occasions, for study , never to be returned. Symphonies, Operas, song cycles based on traditional Russian folk music, his literary writing, journals, the works. Every effort was made to erase his work and his ideas. He was imprisoned twice, the Gulag, forced to record his musical ideas and composition on blank telegram forms. I found 1 CD with his preludes, along with piano music by Shostakovitch, in searching the internet, he is not mentioned in my Oxford Dictionary of Music, either. • Anyway, I wanted to try orchestrating a few of these little piano pieces, due to their novel content and lyrical appeal. Briefly, I found some of the midi files contained just 2 tracks, left and right hand piano parts, others had 2 or even 3 parts , for one hand or the other. I made multiple copies of all left and right hand parts and then proceeded to strip away the layers of notes, using the Key Editor in Cubase, which is a midi file type editor. So, first the top line of notes, all the way through, then the next, often duplicating parts and/or transposing later, then experiment with assigning a variety of voices, and then of course, the mixing. However, it should be noted, I did not take any notes away, nor did I add any in, using just what came in the midi files. • The 4 pieces I chose to orchestrate, using only the GPO4 and ARIA Player and SIR1 reverb effect, are, in order of appearance in the medley; Circus Horsemen, Self, Merry Go Round and March - Lament. • Zaderatzsky's son is represented at this website: http://vsevolod.zaderatsky.free.fr/sp...

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