Shostakovich waltz biography

Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich: By the anniversary of his birth, Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich: On the summer of birth, this release of the “old record” we devote to Dmitry Shostakovich, who has been performed in the year since his birth. The material was prepared by the musicologist Anastasia Alexandrova. Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich-Classic composer of the XX century, winner of universal talent.

There is not a single musical genre where he would not leave his mark, but the symphony was the main point of application of creative forces. After that, ten years passed, and he became known to the whole world. Download the file. Dmitry Shostakovich was born on September 25 in St. Petersburg. His father, Dmitry Boleslavovich, was a chemical engineer, but passionately loved music.

Mom, Sofya Vasilievna, graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in the piano class and taught beginners. At the time of the birth of Dmitry, the daughter of Maria grew up in the family, in the future - a famous pianist, and after him another daughter was born - Zoya, who became a veterinarian. All children had musical abilities and often arranged impromptu concerts at home.

In the year, Dmitry Shostakovich entered the commercial gymnasium of Maria Shidlovskaya, by the same time his first serious musical impressions dates back to the same time. After visiting the opera, Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov “The Tale of King Saltan”, the boy announced the desire to make music.

The future composer received the first lessons of the piano game with his mother, and after several months of homework he began to attend a private music school of the famous teacher Ignatius Glasser. There, Shostakovich achieved certain successes in performing, but the teacher did not share the student’s interest in the composition, so the musician left the school in the year. The first completed play by Shostakovich can be considered "a mourning march of memory of the victims of the revolution." In the summer of the year, thirteen -year -old Dmitry Shostakovich was listened by an outstanding composer, director and professor of the Petrograd Conservatory Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov.

In the same year, the young musician entered the conservatory and wrote the first major orchestral essay-Skherzo Fa-Diz Minor. A year later, three fantastic dancing for the piano and the “two fables of Krylov” for the voice and piano were created. Three fantastic dancing for piano. At the conservatory, Shostakovich studied diligently and with special zeal, despite the difficulties of that time: revolution, civil war, devastation, hunger.

In winter, there was no heating at the conservatory, transport went well in the city, so many students threw music and missed classes. Dmitry Shostakovich continued his studies, and in the evenings attended concerts of the Petrograd Philharmonic, which later began to wear his name. A difficult life in the conditions of half -starred existence, the conservative ration was very small to severe exhaustion.

Father died in the year, and the family was left without funds. A few months later, Dmitry Shostakovich underwent a complex operation, which almost cost his life. Despite the shaken health, he was actively looking for a job and got a tapir in a cinema. In these years, Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov, who managed to get additional rations and personal scholarships for Shostakovich, provided great assistance and support in these years.

Piano Quintet. In the year, Dmitry Shostakovich graduated from the conservatory in the piano class, and in the class of composition. Subsequently, the composer will celebrate this day as his birthday. By tradition, rising to Rubinstein, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev, he was going to continue his career as a concert pianist and as a composer. For example, in the year at the first international Chopin pianists competition in Warsaw, he performed his own composition and received an honorary diploma.

Already in early creativity, the two properties of Shostakovich’s music are noticeable. One of them was expressed in the formation of a new instrumental style - a light and relaxed competition of concert tools. Another manifested itself in an insistent desire to give music the highest meaningfulness, to reveal the concept of a philosophical level with symphonic means.

Many of the composer’s works reflected the troubled atmosphere of his time, when the new style was born in the struggle of contradictions. In some works by Shostakovich, bright theatricality appeared. For example, the opera “Nose”, created based on the story of Gogol, is characterized not only by acute parody, reaching the grotesque in the images of certain characters, but also the intonation of laughter through tears, which helps to reveal the image of the protagonist - Major Kovalev.

Antrakt from the opera "Nose". The young author absorbed the sound of the then musical life - the public culture of the "light" genre, which owned the consciousness of the masses. The composer’s attitude towards her was dual: sometimes he exaggerates, parodies the characteristic turns of fashion songs and dances, but at the same time ennobled them, raises them to the heights of art.The young composer worked hard and stubbornly in the cinema - first as a taper when demonstrating silent films, then as one of the creators of Soviet sound cinema.

His song from the film "Intercession" of the year has gained popular popularity. The song about the meeting “Morning Morning is cool”, Boris Kornilov’s poems. Work in the cinema continued after the Great Patriotic War. Shostakovich’s music to the "Boss" movie, as well as the adaptations of the tragedies of Shakespeare "Hamlet" and "King of Lear", has gained wide popularity.

Romance from the movie "Gadflor" download the file. The composer continued to work on her and in evacuation in Kuibyshev now - Samara. For the first time, this symphony sounded in March in Kuibyshev, then in Moscow, and on August 9, in the Blockade Leningrad, in the Great Hall of the Philharmonic, under the leadership of Karl Eliasberg conductor. The performance of the symphony has become an important event in the life of the fighting city and its inhabitants.

In the year, the composer moved to Moscow, combined teaching in the Moscow and Leningrad Conservatory. Acting as a jury member at the Johann Sebastian Bach International Competition in Leipzig, the composer was so inspired by the atmosphere of the city and the music of his great resident that, having returned to Moscow, he began to create the piano cycle “Twenty -Four Adulti and Fugi”.

Prelude and Fugue R Major. In the year, Shostakovich wrote a piano cycle of plays for children “Duke Dancing”.