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Yan Frenkel (Yan Abramovich Frenkel) was born on 21 November, 1920 in Kiev, Soviet Union, is a Ukrainian composer (1920–1989). Discover Yan Frenkel's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

Popular As Yan Abramovich Frenkel
Occupation Composer, singer, violinist, pianist, actor
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 21 November 1920
Birthday 21 November
Birthplace Kiev, Soviet Union
Date of death 25 August, 1989
Died Place Riga,Soviet Union
Nationality Ukraine

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Who Is Yan Frenkel's Wife?

His wife is Nataliya Frenkel (m. ?–1989)

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Children Nina Frenkel

Yan Frenkel Net Worth

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1918

или в 1918/1919 году After the war, since 1946 he lived in Moscow, where he wrote orchestral arrangements and played the violin in small orchestras.

1920

Yan Abramovich Frenkel (Ян Абрамович Френкель) (November 21, 1920, Kiev – August 25, 1989, Riga, USSR) was a popular Soviet Ukrainian composer and performer of Jewish descent.

Yan Frenkel was a Russian Soviet composer born in Kiev, Soviet Union.

He was originally taught violin by his father, and later studied classical violin at the Kiev Conservatory under Yakob Magaziner, and the piano.

During the Second World War he was evacuated to Orenburg, where he entered at the Orenburg Antiaircraft Military School (Zenitnoe Uchilishche), and played the violin in the orchestra of the Avrora Cinema.

1942

In 1942 he served at the front lines and was wounded.

1943

After the hospital, since 1943 played in the military orchestra.

1960

He began composing songs in the 1960s.

His first was the song Gody ('The Years'), written to lyrics by Mark Lisianski.

During his later career he worked in collaboration with many prominent Soviet musicians, including Mikhail Tanich, Igor Shaferan, and the husband and wife team Konstantin Vanshenkin and Inna Goff].

Thanks to Mark Bernes his song Zhuravli ('The Cranes', lyrics by Rasul Gamzatov) became a major hit.

Frenkel gave concerts in which he performed his own music.

During these concerts the audience would generally join in.

His songs were included in the repertoire of many Soviet performers.

He also appeared in the movie The Elusive Avengers, for which he composed a score.

1989

Yan Frenkel died on August 25, 1989, in Riga (as foreshadowed in his song Avgust ('August') to the lyrics of Inna Goff).

1990

His wife Natalia died in the mid-1990s, but his daughter Nina has lived in Italy since the 1980s.

His grandson Ian Frenkel is a musician (pianist and arranger) in the United States Coast Guard Band.

As reported by composer's fan site, members of Soviet ruling bureaucracy orchestrated a campaign against 'The Cranes', citing the song's religious undertones.

The case was elevated all the way to the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, who decreed "acceptable to perform, but not too often".

Frenkel was the prototype for Gena the Crocodile, a fictional, friendly crocodile in the series of popular animation films Gena the Crocodile, Cheburashka and Shapoklyak.