Tamara Maliukova Sidorenko facts for kids

Tamara Stepanovna Malyukova Sidorenko (born February 15, 1919 – died 2005) was a talented Ukrainian composer, music teacher, and pianist. She created many different kinds of music and helped new musicians learn and grow.

Early Life and Education

Tamara Sidorenko was born in Odessa, a city in Ukraine. She loved music from a young age. She started her musical journey by studying piano at a music school in Nikolayev. Later, she went to the Odessa Conservatory, which is a special college for music. She graduated in 1946. At the Conservatory, she learned how to compose music (write her own songs and pieces) from a teacher named Serafim D. Orfeyev.

A Career in Music Education

After finishing her studies, Sidorenko began teaching at the Odessa Conservatory, the same place where she had learned so much. She was a dedicated teacher. Later, she became the head of the department that taught composition (how to write music) and music theory (how music works) at the Odessa Music School. She held this important role until 1970. Many students learned from her, including a well-known musician named Oleksandr Krasotov.

Musical Creations

Tamara Sidorenko was a very active composer. She enjoyed taking traditional folk songs from different countries like the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine, and arranging them. This means she would adapt them for different instruments or voices, giving them a new sound while keeping their original spirit.

She also wrote music for films and television shows, though the specific ones are not known. Sidorenko composed larger musical pieces too:

• Cantatas: These are like stories told through music, often for singers and an orchestra. She based her cantatas on writings by authors such as L. Barabanov, V. Bobrov, Andrei Voznesensky, and E. Yanvarov.
• Choruses: These are pieces written for groups of singers. She used poems by famous writers like Nikolay Nekrasov, Taras Shevchenko, and Lesya Ukrainka for her choruses.
• Songs: She wrote many songs, setting poems by various authors to music. Some of these poets included V. Karpeko, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Roberto Fernandez Retamar, Shevchenko, A. Tolstoy, S. Vasiliev, and Sergei Yesenin.

Her instrumental music included pieces for different groups of instruments:

Chamber Music

Chamber music is written for a small group of instruments, usually one player per part.

• Kolkhoz String Quartet
• Pieces for Cello and Piano
• Pieces for Viola
• String Quartet No. 1
• String Quartet No. 2 on Ukrainian Themes

Orchestra Music

Orchestra music is written for a large group of musicians playing many different instruments together.

• Bogdan Khmeinitzky Overture
• Suite of Ancient Dances
• Symphony No. 1
• Symphony No. 2
• Symphony No. 3

Piano Music

These are pieces written specifically for the piano.

• Cycle Piece in Old Style
• Preludes
• Sonatas