Sviridov composer brief biography

George Sviridov - biography of George Sviridov - composer, pianist and public figure. The music of George Sviridov is known, the inhabitants of Russia and abroad love. Its compositions are original, professionals believe that they have few notes and many music. The creativity of a native of Central Russia has always been inextricable with local traditions. Childhood and youth composer Sviridov was born on December 16 in the Fateja Kursk region in a family of local intellectuals.

Father served in the post office, his mother was a teacher. By the old George, parents called Yura according to the ancient tradition. The views on the life of Vasily Grigoryevich and Elizabeth Ivanovna were extremely opposite. George Sviridov in childhood revolutionary father completely and fully supported the Bolsheviks. The mother of the future composer, who grew up in a God -fearing family, was a convinced monarchist.

From her youth, she began to sing in the church choir, and this could not but affect the musical preferences of Little Yuri. Relatives of Elizabeth Chaplygina’s maiden surname Sviridova were prominent people in the Kursk province. Her father and grandfather held the positions of the trustees of local schools, were part of the Council of the arrival of the Epiphany Church.

To the faith to the boy of the boy was introduced by a grandmother, with whom he regularly visited the church of Frol and Lavra. Love for vocal creativity arose among George under the influence of children's impressions. At the end of his life, when it was time to rethink all her events, he returned to his origins, began to write music on religious topics. Georgy Sviridov in his youth, his father, Vasily Grigoryevich, passed away very early.

He died in a fight with the Denikins. Yura at that time was only four years old, his sister Tamara was barely a year. The widowed woman, who was urgent in need of earnings, went to Kirov with her children, where her distant relatives lived. The composer was forever remembered by one case from that distant time. Elizaveta Sviridova worked without turning hands, she had to feed two children.

Often for her work, she received not money, but a natural fee. Once, a woman was put in front of a dilemma-to choose a cow or German piano. Sviridova opted for the instrument, as she had already managed to notice the extraordinary musical giftedness of Yura. The boy praised his mother’s act. However, he was attracted not only by music, but also by literature. He paid special attention to verses, spent a lot of time reading the works of Russians, foreign poets.

He was unusually talented. Once, to participate in a concert, Yuri began to independently master the game on the balalaika, and quickly succeeded in this. At the concert, he was called one of the best teenagers who performed in a musical celebration. At the age of fourteen, the young man became a student of the Kursk Music School. He hit the class of Vera Ufimtseva. The history of admission to the educational institution also resembles a legend.

Young Sviridov had no notes, he could not play a musical work. The teenager brilliantly got out of the situation, conquering the strict commission by the march of his own composition. Thus began the musical biography of the great Russian composer. Another teacher of the future composer was Miron Krutyansky. It was he who recommended that the young man continue his studies in the northern capital.

In the year, George became a student of the Leningrad Musical College, where he studied on the pianist Braudo. George Sviridov in his youth, teachers admired their wards. He rapidly mastered the technique of playing the piano, in the evenings he acted in the theater as a tape. This student managed to everywhere, but his far -sighted teacher was preparing a different future for Sviridov.

Braudo turned to the leadership of the technical school in order to transfer his ward to the composer course. So Yuri was in the class of Mikhail Yudin. A graduate of the music college in the year again became a student, entered the conservatory at the course of D. Shostakovich and P. Over time, George and Dmitry Dmitrievich became great friends. Shostakovich had a great influence on the worldview of a young colleague, and for life instilled in him a love of Russian music.

Music in the years Georgy Vasilievich becomes a member of the Union of Composers. As a graduation work, the young man prepared three beautiful compositions - a symphony for a chamber orchestra, the first symphony, a concert for piano.

Composer George Sviridov plays the piano. After graduating from the conservatory, the musician was invited to work in the Leningrad Philharmonic. At this time, he is engaged in instrumental music. At the beginning of the war, the Philharmonic is evacuated to Novosibirsk. In Siberia, the young composer creates a number of vocal works. The musician was greatly helped by the musician’s work to poetry, a deep knowledge of the work of Russian and foreign poets.

Russians, Soviet poets also did not go unnoticed by the composer. Esenin's work was of particular importance for him. Sviridov devoted his work to this poet "Memory of Sergei Yesenin." Mayakovsky’s work inspired him to create a “pathetic oratorio”.After Sviridov, he wrote a cantata to Pasternak's poems. The vocal works for the verses of Lermontov, Prokofiev, Nekrasov also became very popular in the Soviet Union and beyond.

Composer George Sviridov song creativity always attracted the composer. He always attached great importance to his voice, considering it a tool given by God. As for instrumental music, its first writers in our country were buffoons, and for a long time it was considered a form of art intended for the lower layers of society. For a long time, Sviridov was engaged in work on the collected folklore heritage of his native land.

This allowed the composer to open a special page in the musical academic tradition. Thus, the Kursk Songs was created, designed for the choir, a symphony orchestra. His work made an indelible impression on his colleagues, many of whom went along the path that had been beaten by him, turned to folk song creativity. The followers of Sviridov were S. Slonimsky, R.

Shchedrin, V. Gavrilin, N. Hearing “Kursk Songs”, Shostakovich said a historical phrase about the features of the work of his colleague. He said that with a small number of notes, this composer knows how to create a lot of music. The most fruitful period of the work of the period of criticism is the years. At this time, he rethinks Pushkin’s work, based on the works of a brilliant author, creates the famous “blizzard”.

The most beautiful “musical illustrations” was his composition “Winter Road”, “Troika”, “Waltz”. The other work of Sviridov, called “Time, forward! The history of the creation of this suite is very interesting. The composer wrote it for the movie Mikhail Schweitzer, then decided to arrange it in a suite. The musician always worked for his compositions for a long time, but he spent no more than an hour on this work.

Georgy Vasilyevich simply did not have time, he was in a hurry to fishing, which he loved as passionately as music and poems. The real peak of Sviridov’s work, musical critics and grateful listeners consider “setting up Rus'”, a poem written in the poems of Yesenin. They may be familiar.