Mikhail Nikolayevich Savoyarov was born on 30 November 1876 in Moscow.
20 Facts About Mikhail Savoyarov
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Mikhail Savoyarov learned to play violin without a teacher, took private lessons.
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Mikhail Savoyarov made his debut on stage as an operetta tenor comedian by chance substituting for an ill actor.
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In 1905 Mikhail Savoyarov began to compose and sing topical songs, set at first to operetta or folk songs music and later to his own melodies.
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Mikhail Savoyarov's repertoire included mostly songs and trolls accompanied by piano, violin, dancing, pantomime and eccentric acting often turned into brazen antics and buffoonery.
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In 1907 Mikhail Savoyarov had a success on fair of Nizhny Novgorod where he performed together with his first wife Ariadna Azagarina.
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In 1914 Mikhail Savoyarov published his first collection of texts of his own composition and joined the Society of Dramatists and Composers.
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Mikhail Savoyarov's favorite character is a flaneur of high society, dandy, petty bourgeois, low dives frequenter with a rumpled or well-pressed dress coat and a top hat or a bowler on, a cane in a hand and a chrysanthemum in his buttonhole.
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Sometimes Mikhail Savoyarov used a mask of a criminal, and for such cases he composed special topical songs.
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Liuba finally saw Mikhail Savoyarov who plays on tour in miniature close to us.
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Apparently Blok believed The Twelve poem should be recited in this specific rough and eccentric manner, the way Mikhail Savoyarov did it playing the role of a criminal from St Petersburg.
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Mikhail Savoyarov headed the Petrograd variety actors' union for three years.
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Mikhail Savoyarov continued to give concerts all over the USSR up until 1930.
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In 1933 Mikhail Savoyarov moved from Leningrad to Moscow where he lived the rest 7 years of his life.
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Mikhail Savoyarov died a month and a half after the war on Germany started.
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On 4 August 1941 Mikhail Savoyarov died of heart rupture during the bombing in the 43 Lesnaya street gateway.
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Mikhail Savoyarov wouldn't hide in the bombshelter during the air raids.
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Mikhail Savoyarov was the first to the Russian music scene his own eccentric style of performing different from circus or theatre.
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Mikhail Savoyarov put musical in common practice parody songs of other authors.
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The music for this number was rewritten by the composer Andrei Petrov, but the lyrics by Mikhail Savoyarov remained the same.