1. Yuri Khanon is a pen name of Yuri Feliksovich Soloviev-Savoyarov, a Russian composer.
18 Facts About Yuri Khanon
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In 1988, in spite of an opposition of his old-fashioned professors, Yuri Khanon managed to graduate from the Leningrad Conservatory, specializing in composition.
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Yuri Khanon is not just a composer; he is a writer, a philosopher, a painter, a studio pianist, and a botanist-selectionist.
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Yuri Khanon is author of libretto and texts of almost all his works.
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Yuri Khanon's grandfather was Mikhail Savoyarov, a comic actor and composer, who was very famous in StPetersburg on the eve of the Revolution of 1917.
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Yuri Khanon never participated in any professional organizations and is notable for his independent ideas and reclusive way of life.
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Beyond all doubts, Yuri Khanon came into the history of music as "the most closed and enigmatic composer".
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Yuri Khanon was 23 when he won fame in Europe and made a sensation in Russia, but, after only three years of performing in public he stopped any public appearances contrary to the standards of a composer's career.
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Yuri Khanon viewed his main mission not in creating works of art, but in promotion of certain concepts put to life by the means of art.
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Yuri Khanon is a doctrinaire and an adherent of canons.
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Yuri Khanon plays Erik Satie's and Alexander Skriabin's piano works for he sees them as his teachers, and he calls other composers "just some composers".
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Yuri Khanon himself writes a lot of music which can be either "middle" or "extreme".
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Yuri Khanon is a unique personality of our times, a strange and interesting person.
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Since 2006, Yuri Khanon switched to a special "reverse method" of creativity, when "one score is written forward, and the other is simultaneously back to its complete destruction".
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Yuri Khanon worked for the cinema only for a short period between 1988 and 1991.
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Yuri Khanon composed his first soundtrack already as a Saint Petersburg Conservatory student.
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In spite of his great success, after 1991 Yuri Khanon never returned to writing music for the cinema.
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Since 1983, Yuri Khanon writes fiction and non-fiction as an essayist and novelist.