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Alexander Varlamov - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Composer, Actor.
June 19, 1904, in Simbirsk - August 20, 1990, in Moscow - composer, arranger, singer, conductor
Until September 1918 he lived in Simbirsk, studied at the second male gymnasium. In 1912, his first musical works were published in Simbirsk - the play "Sadness" and the waltz "Evening" .
In 1922 he entered GITIS (in the same workshop with Erast Pavlovich Garin and Nikolai Pavlovich Okhlopkov). However, he soon leaves there and enters the Gnessin School in the class of Reingold Moritsevich Glier and Dmitry Romanovich Rogal-Levitsky (fellow student in the class of composition - Aram Khachaturian) .
He made his debut as a jazz bandleader in 1934. The attention of the musical community was attracted by the collaboration of Varlamov with the Negro singer from the United States Celestina Kool. Later he assembled the first group of musicians-improvisers in the USSR ("Seven"). In the fall of 1938, he created the jazz orchestra of the All-Union Radio Committee, with which he worked until September 1939, having managed to take part in the first national television show. In 1939-1940. directed the jazz orchestra of M.V. N. Bauman. From the summer of 1940 to the summer of 1941, he was chief conductor of the USSR State Jazz Orchestra. At the beginning of the war, the State Jazz of the USSR was transformed into an exemplary jazz orchestra of the People's Commissariat of Defense and almost all of them went to the front, where most of the orchestra members died. Varlamov, who remained in Moscow, headed the symphonic jazz at the All-Union Studio of Variety Art (Melody Orchestra, soloist - Deborah Pantofel-Nechetskaya) and prepared the program for performances in front of American sailors in the northern ports of Murmansk and Arkhangelsk.
In January 1943, he was arrested on libel, by the decision of a Special Meeting, he was sentenced to eight years in prison, he served a term in Ivdellag in the Northern Urals, where until 1948 he led a propaganda team and a jazz orchestra. After his release in 1951 he lived in Kazakhstan. He worked as a teacher in Karaganda. After rehabilitation in 1956 he returned to Moscow, wrote music for pop orchestras, films and television productions, made a number of recordings of his own compositions with a symphonic jazz line-up. In the last years of his life he lived on Leskov Street, house 10-b, in the Moscow district of Bibirevo.

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