Mongolian Composers

[Sicmu]

Hi Atsushi,


I didn't check your file yet but Murdorj's Symphony No.3 (and many other rare Mongolian works for orchestra as well) is available on this YouTube channel, maybe with a better sound :

http://www.youtube.com/user/YaponyBagsh

[lechner1110]

　
  Oh! I didn't know it....Thanks

[Mykulh]

Atsushi,
    I am currently working on a Discography of Asian Symphonies. Can you give me the details about the rare LP of the Murdori Symphony No. 3 you mention? I need the label. catalogue number and year of issue if known.

Michael

[eschiss1]

Transliteration may be something closer to "Luvsanjamts Murjorj" (1915-96) though I'm not at all sure that's quite right either... (j instead of d) (I think he may have written the Mongolian SSR anthem or something??)

[shamokin88]

Ought the Mongolians to be moved from the New World? My compliments to them but they might prosper in a different thread.

[lechner1110]

   Hi Eric,
   Yes. He composed Mongolian national anthem.
 
   
   Hi Michael,
   I got this recording from other collector in Japan.
   Maybe, I assume original LP is private edition.   
   In any case , I will ask him about original LP.


   Atsushi

[Holger]

Transliteration may be something closer to "Luvsanjamts Murjorj" (1915-96) though I'm not at all sure that's quite right either... (j instead of d) (I think he may have written the Mongolian SSR anthem or something??)

In terms of correctness: the Mongolian spelling is Лувсанжамбын Мөрдорж, which should be transcribed as "Luvsanjambĭn Mördorj" according to Wikipedia. Different versions are at least partly due to the former predominant usage of Russified spellings, Latvian commented on similar phenomena in case of the Baltic states recently (where the situation is still more annoying for obvious reasons). Anyhow, I also read he was born in 1919 instead of 1915 which seems to be more likely to be true in my view, first and foremost because most Mongolian sources state this year of birth. His Symphony No. 3 was composed in 1973, by the way.

[eschiss1]

thanks! none of the sources I usually tend to rely on at first go had anything about him, at any rate...

[Mark Thomas]

I've moved both the original post (in the Downloads board) and these replies.

[semloh]

Arbuckle, thank you   for the GONTCHIKSUMLA 1st symphony. I enjoyed the 2nd enormously, so I'm really looking forward to listening to this.... seems it was from the same LP.

[eschiss1]

Listened to the Luvsanjambĭn Mördorj/Murdorj symphony very belatedly (apologies.) Much to remark on, I thought, rather inventive and more late-Shostakovich-and-Weinberg (symphony 14-etc?...) style then I was expecting (not unusual for 1973 but I admit I was expecting something more - reactionary and "Socialist-Realist"- not that I have a firm idea what that really amounts to, musically-speaking, despite a few examples having come my way.)

Anyhow, thanks- a good piece, it would seem!

[eschiss1]

btw I see an English-language Wikipedia article about him (apologies if I am redundant) linking to a Mongolian one etc. at Luvsanjambyn Mördorj.

[Ser Amantio di Nicolao]

btw I see an English-language Wikipedia article about him (apologies if I am redundant) linking to a Mongolian one etc. at Luvsanjambyn Mördorj.

Funny story...I started that article after reading about him here a few months ago, and digging around and finding next to nothing in the English-language press about him.  Nice to see things coming full circle. 

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