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Vassily Pavlovich Lobanov also Vassily Lobanov (born 2 January 1947) is a Russian composer and pianist.
Lobanov studied at the Moscow Conservatory from 1963 to 1971: piano with Lev Naumov and composition with Sergey Balasanyan. He also studied with Yuri Kholopov (analysis) and Alfred Schnittke (instrumentation). From 1997 he has been professor for piano at the 'Hochschule für Musik' in Cologne, Germany. He has lived in Germany since 1991.
He has composed operas, concertos, chamber and piano music, playing in recitals together with the violinist Oleg Kagan and cellist Natalia Gutman.
At the beginning of his output he was mainly concentrating his energy on rhythm, which has a sort of Bartokian sharpness to it.
His early works show the influence of Denisov; his later works are influenced by Schnittke.
He started applying serial techniques using quarter tones and double stops when writing for wind instruments. His fondness for repeated arpeggio patterns and something of Reichian phasing, built of the common materials of Western Music, is a characteristic element in his oevre.
Some of his works, like Piano Sonata no. 2, sound minimalist in character; some of his more recent works, like his opera Antigone, touch the world of pop music. Another characteristic is his fondness for extremely bleak but evocative melodic writing, somewhat sounding like the later works of Britten, but presumably really more closely related to Shostakovich.
In some more recent works Lobanov has seemed to be trying to integrate his style within the rather obvious formal traditions of Soviet music. |