Okudzhava performing at Palace of the Republic, East Berlin, East Germany, 1976
Background information
Birth name
Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava
Born
(1924-05-09)May 9, 1924 Moscow, Soviet Union
Origin
Soviet Union
Died
June 12, 1997(1997-06-12) (aged 73) Paris, France
Genres
Author song
Occupation(s)
Musician, poet, editor, novelist, short story writer
Instrument(s)
Vocals, guitar
Years active
1950s–1997
Musical artist
Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (Russian: Булат Шалвович Окуджава; Georgian: ბულატ ოკუჯავა; Armenian: Բուլատ Օկուջավա; May 9, 1924 – June 12, 1997) was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter of Georgian-Armenian ancestry. He was one of the founders of the Soviet genre called "author song" (авторская песня, avtorskaya pesnya), or "guitar song", and the author of about 200 songs, set to his own poetry. His songs are a mixture of Russian poetic and folk song traditions and the French chansonnier style represented by such contemporaries of Okudzhava as Georges Brassens. Though his songs were never overtly political, the freshness and independence of Okudzhava's artistic voice presented a subtle challenge to Soviet cultural authorities, who were thus hesitant for many years to give him official recognition.[1]
^Smith, G. S. (1988). "Okudzhava Marches On". Slavonic and East European Review. 66.4 (October 1): 553.
and journalist. He is also known as biographer of Boris Pasternak, BulatOkudzhava and Maxim Gorky. Born into a Jewish family, his father was a prominent...
radio recordings. She performed songs by Novella Matveyeva and BulatOkudzhava. Okudzhava once noted that her art is "a lucky combination of voice, intellect...
Fortune" (Ваше благородие, госпожа Удача, music: Isaac Schwartz, lyrics: BulatOkudzhava, performed by Pavel Luspekayev) became a hit. The film is watched by...
Russian folk songs and romances. At that time she was influenced by BulatOkudzhava, and she gained popularity in Russia and abroad with some critics dubbing...
Among the singer-songwriters, termed as "bards", the most popular were BulatOkudzhava, Vladimir Vysotsky, Yuri Vizbor, Sergey Nikitin and Tatyana Nikitina...
Vakhtangov Theatre, and another to Soviet-era folk singer, bard and poet BulatOkudzhava, who wrote several poignant songs about the Arbat. Arbat is home to...
renowned figures, such as the two balladeers—Vladimir Vysotsky and BulatOkudzhava, and performers such as Alla Pugacheva. Jazz, even with sanctions from...
Hirananda Vatsyayan Agyey, W. H. Auden, Joseph Brodsky, Allen Ginsberg, BulatOkudzhava, Pablo Neruda, Eugenio Montale, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Artur Lundkvist...
served as Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003. She founded the BulatOkudzhava Foundation in Israel and was Chairman of the Committee for the Defense...
Livanov) and Blue Puppy (1976), among others. He also wrote music with BulatOkudzhava for the 1975 film The Adventures of Buratino. Entin was born in Moscow...
the film are three songs written and performed by renowned "bard" BulatOkudzhava: "Chasovye Lyubvi" ("Sentries of Love"), "Zhivopistsy" ("Painters")...
E. Also, variations in the open G tuning were fairly common, e.g., BulatOkudzhava would use the tuning of D2 G2 C3 D3 G3 B3 D4 to play songs written...
censorship's point of view) works of Anna Akhmatova, Bella Akhmadulina, BulatOkudzhava, Nikolay Rubtsov, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Andrey Voznesensky, Robert Rozhdestvensky...
Astafyev, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Vasil Bykaŭ, Fazil Iskander, Boris Slutsky, BulatOkudzhava. Novels and stories Partisans (in Russian, "Партизаны"), a novel (1960–63)...
to the village including Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Andrei Voznesensky, BulatOkudzhava, Bella Akhmadulina and many others. In 1965-1975 Soviet dissident writer...
renowned figures, such as the two balladeers—Vladimir Vysotsky and BulatOkudzhava, and performers such as Alla Pugacheva. Jazz, even with sanctions from...
performers of the bard song were Alexander Galich, Vladimir Vysotsky, BulatOkudzhava. Meanwhile, Western music was either being smuggled across the border...
listening to classical music and Russian bards like Vladimir Vysotsky and BulatOkudzhava. Her father, who obtained recordings in Eastern Europe and traded cassettes...
Auden. At Struga, Ginsberg met with the other Golden Wreath winners, BulatOkudzhava and Andrei Voznesensky. In 1989, Ginsberg appeared in Rosa von Praunheim's...
a folding screen. It was also at the MAT School that Vysotsky met BulatOkudzhava, who at this point was already a popular underground bard. He was even...
"dressed" many in the intelligentsia; sculptor Ernst Neizvestny and poet BulatOkudzhava among others), but later returned to Kharkov. Limonov moved to Moscow...
– Johnny Grant, American radio host and producer (d. 2008) 1924 – BulatOkudzhava, Russian singer, poet, and author (d. 1997) 1926 – John Middleton Murry...
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