Sviridov biography for children

The version for the visually visible biography of Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov Georgy Vasilievich Sviridov was born on December 3 in a small town in a Fatej, located in the Steppe Kursk province. His father was a postal employee, and his mother was a teacher. At the beginning of the revolution, George's father joined the Communist Party and died in the year during the civil war.

From the age of nine, George Sviridov lived in Kursk. There, Yuri so Sviridova was called in childhood to learn to play the piano. But soon the classes stopped: much more than the piano, a young music lover attracted a balalaika. Sviridov took her from one of his comrades and soon learned to play so that he was accepted into the amateur orchestra of Russian folk instruments. The head of the orchestra, a former violinist Ioffe, arranged concerts and musical evenings dedicated to classic composers.

Playing in the orchestra, Sviridov honed the technique and did not stop dreaming of getting a musical education. In the summer of the year, he decided to enter a music school. At the opening exam, the boy was supposed to play the piano, but since he had no repertoire at that time, he played the march of his own composition. The commissions liked him, and he was accepted to school. At the Sviridov music school, he became a student of V.

Ufimtseva, the wife of the famous Russian inventor G. Communication with this sensitive and talented teacher enriched Sviridov for a lot: he learned to play a piano professionally, fell in love with literature. During the years of study, he was a frequent guest in the Ufimtsev’s house, and it was Vera Vladimirovna who became the person who advised Sviridova to devote his life to music.

Having finished school, he continued music with another famous teacher - M. on his advice in the year Sviridov went to Leningrad and entered the music college in the class of the piano, which was led by Professor I. at that time Sviridov lived in the hostel and, in order to feed, played in the evenings in the cinema and restaurants. Under the leadership of Professor Braudo Sviridov, he very quickly improved performing equipment.

However, after six months, his teacher was convinced that Sviridov has an innate gift of the composition, and achieved his transfer to the composer department of the technical school, to the classroom, which was led by the famous musician M. At that time, a lot of talented youth gathered under the roof of the first musical college: N. Bogoslovsky, I. Dzerzhinsky, V. studied here and in terms of teaching the technical school successfully competed with the Leningrad Conservatory.

Sviridov, George, under the leadership of Yudin Sviridov, in just two months he wrote his first term paper - variations for piano. They are still known among musicians and are used as educational material. In the class of Yudin Sviridov spent about three years. During this time, he wrote many different works, but the most famous was a cycle of six romances to Pushkin’s poems.

They were printed and entered the repertoire of such famous singers as S. Lemeshev and A. However, the malnutrition and hard work blew up the health of the young man, he had to interrupt his studies and leave for some time in Kursk, to his homeland. Having gained strength and strengthening his health, in the summer of the year Sviridov entered the Leningrad Conservatory and became a laureate of the named scholarship named after A.

his first teacher there was Professor P. Ryazanov, who was replaced by D., under the leadership of his new mentor Sviridov, completed work on the piano concert, whose premiere took place during the decade of Soviet music dedicated to the twenty -year -olds revolution, simultaneously with the fifth symphony of Shostakovich. Together with Sviridov, Shostakovich studied another composer Yu.

For Sviridov Shostakovich, a well -known composer in the future became not only a teacher, but also an older friend for his life. In the class of Shostakovich Sviridov spent four years and graduated from the conservatory in the summer of the year. His graduation was the first symphony and a concert for string tools. Such a successful end of the conservatory promised the young composer brilliant prospects, he finally got the opportunity to professionally do his favorite business.

However, all these plans were violated by the war. In its very first days, Sviridov was enrolled in a cadet of a military school and sent to Ufa. However, already at the end of the year he was demobilized in health. Up to a year, Sviridov lived in Novosibirsk, where the Leningrad Philharmonic was evacuated. Like other composers, he begins to write military songs, of which, perhaps, the “brave song” for poems A.

In addition, he wrote music for the performances of theaters evacuated to Siberia. It was then that Sviridov had to work for the first time for the musical theater, and he created Operetta "The sea spread widely", which talked about the life and struggle of the Baltic sailors in the besieged Leningrad. Opeetta Sviridova became the first musical and dramatic work dedicated to the war.

She was set in several theaters and did not leave the stage for many years. And in the year, Operetta Sviridova became the basis for the musical television movie, which was made on central television.In the year, Sviridov returned to Leningrad, and in the year he settled in Moscow. Now he no longer had to prove his right to independent creativity. He writes equally easily both serious and easy music.

His works are diverse in genres: these are symphony and concerts, oratorios and cantata, songs and romances. In addition, Sviridov is the creator of an interesting musical genre, which he called the "musical illustration." The composer, as it were, tells a literary work by means of music. This is primarily a cycle dedicated to Pushkin's story "Metel". But the main genre with which the composer never parted is a song and a romance.

Sviridov not only writes romances on the classic texts of R. Burns, A. Isaacan, but also uses folk songs as a basis, as, for example, he did this in the cantata "Kursk Songs" and "Wooden Rus'". His music is simplicity and some special clarity. Perhaps that is why the young musicians use many works of Sviridov in their educational practice. Sviridov brought world fame to Sviridov’s stunning “Decembrists” to A.

Mayakovsky’s words, “Five songs about Russia” to the words of A. Blok and others. However, Sviridov also worked in popular genres, for example, in the operetta “lights”, “the sea is widely”, in the movie “Resurrection”, “Golden Calf” and others, Don Sezar de Bazan, etc. Sviridov was generously awarded the ranks and awards for almost all the authorities: he was awarded the USSR State Prizes three times,, the Lenin Prize in the year, in the year he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR, in M ​​- Hero of Socialist Labor.

In many ways, therefore - when perestroika struck and the past began to scold the past - Sviridov and his music fell into disgrace. The famous screensaver in the program "Time" "Time, forward! However, a few years later, justice was restored. This is what film director M. wrote on this occasion Schweitzer: “Because this music is forever.

Because it has a pulse of life free from the political bustle of life. It has a time that, contrary to all the blows of fate to historical catastrophes and irreparable losses, continues forever.” The civilian requiem and the funeral of G. Sviridov took place on January 9 in Moscow. They said goodbye to Georgy Vasilyevich at home, in his apartment on Bolshaya Georgian. And this is also in Russian traditions - so Russian geniuses of the past were buried.

People began to gather near the house on Bolshaya Georgian early. By noon, in the apartment on the sixth floor, the floors of which were covered with fir branches, which paradoxically related the sadness of the funeral with the sensation of the winter holidays - the New Year and Christmas - a lot of people gathered. The modest decoration of the house, many books, notes - the dwelling of the true intellectual and the place of farewell to him.

No theatricality - no music, no speeches, no ritual. Everything is sincere and simply. "After the funeral service in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the funeral of G., his last shelter, the body of the great composer found in the Novodevichy cemetery. Four months later, his wife Elsa Sviridov left.