Boris Saveliev

Boris Isaakovich Savelyev (Weits) was born on May 14, 1934 in Moscow. He graduated from the Institute of Culture, worked in pop and jazz ensembles (played the accordion), the first in the Soviet Union introduced the flute into the jazz composition. The composition began to engage in 1960. He wrote songs for pop singers, worked as a music editor of the popular radio program "Good morning!". For 25 years, he wrote music for the famous program “Baby Son”, where songs helped children memorize the difficult rules of grammar, biology and other subjects. The author of music to many popular cartoons (“Once a cowboy, two cowboy”, “Robinson Kuzya”, the series about Kota Leopold, “House for the Leopard” and others). Together with composer Yevgeny Bednenko’s musical group “Horus” (the trio “Horus”) recorded several children's musicals at the record company “Melody”: “Treasures of Captain Flint”, “Sea Devil”, “The Birthday of the Cat Leopold” and others. The first production in the Soviet Union of the musical “The Birthday of the Cat Leopold” was performed by director Mikhail Timofti at the Orenburg Musical Comedy Theater and at the Moldavian National Theater named after Mihai Eminescu. The musical “Captain Flint's Treasure” was staged by Mikhail Timofti at the Tomsk Theater of Musical Comedy (now Seversky Musical Theater) and then at the State Russian Drama Theater named after A.P. Chekhov (Chisinau). Often spent creative evenings in many schools of the Soviet Union. Boris Saveliev died on September 8, 1991. Cremated, an urn with ashes buried in the Donskoy cemetery's columbarium.