Biography about any composer

Great Russian composers Russian classics are an important part of the world cultural heritage. It is original and beautiful, it is distinguished by a special character and unique greatness. Russian composers wrote their works out of time. In the XXI century, they still sound powerful and modern. He was the first to achieve wide recognition abroad. His works fell on the basis of Russian folk music, at one time Glinka became an innovator in this matter.

Mikhail Ivanovich personally knew the greatest writers of his time: A. Pushkin, V. Zhukovsky, A. Griboedov, A. Thanks to his trip to Europe, which lasted several years, the great Russian composer also absorbed world experience. Success overtook him after the exit of the opera “Ivan Susanin” “Life for the Tsar” she received enthusiastic responses. Odoevsky called the opera as follows: "The new element in art, and the new period begins in its history - the period of Russian music." The second Opera Epic "Ruslan and Lyudmila" was not met by the public not so warmly.

It was a difficult period in the composer’s life, Russia experienced Pushkin’s death. The opera was appreciated later, for the country of that time it turned out to be too innovative. Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin the great Russian composer Alexander Borodin possessed many talents. A chemical scientist, doctor, teacher and writer wrote music, which became a masterpiece of Russian classics.

Interestingly, Alexander Borodin did not have professional teachers, he mastered the art of writing music himself. The impetus for creativity was the marriage to the famous pianist E. Protopopova and admiration for the works of M. Borodin traveled a lot with the tour, his central work was the opera “Prince Igor”, an example of the national heroic epic in music and which, according to the evil irony of fate, did not manage to finish the friends of the composer A.

Glazanov and N. Alexander Borodin also called “the father of Russian symphonic music. " Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky is not just a great Russian composer and member of a member of a “mighty pile”, but also a great innovator. His work shocked and was ahead of time. In his grandiose works - Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina operas, he showed the pages of Russian history as no one could do this in Russian music before.

The specific melodic and innovative harmony of Mussorgsky became the main for the musical development of the 20th century and played an important role in the formation of the styles of many world composers. He studied the theory of music and the composition in the new St. Petersburg Conservatory. Academic skills and talent helped him become a world -class composer. He was not only a composer, worked as a teacher, conductor, critic, public figure, performed in two capitals, toured in Europe and America.

Tchaikovsky’s works are loved by many, because his musical dialogue with the listener was practically universal: his music reflected the images of life and death, love, nature, childhood, and the spiritual life of the Russian people. He became a naval officer, on a warship he went around many countries of Europe and two Americas, but a musical gift, inherited from his mother, determined the fate of the great Russian composer.

The central place in his musical heritage is occupied by operas. These are 15 works that demonstrate the variety of genre, stylistic, dramatic, compositional decisions of Rimsky-Korsakov. All of them have a special handwriting - melodic vocal lines against the background of orchestral music. The key topics of the works of Rimsky-Korsakov were Russian history and the world of fairy tale and epic.

He was even called a "storyteller." He survived a personal tragedy - his mother died early, and his father served as an ambassador to Persia and could not pay enough time and attention to his son. Отдушиной юного Александра Скрябина стала музыка. When the third symphony “Divine Poem”, the symphonic “Poem of Ecstasy”, “Tragic” and “Satanic” piano poems, 4 and 5 sonatas and other works, came out, it became clear that new masterpieces appeared in Russian classical music.

The greatest innovative work of that time was the “Prometheus” “Poem of Fire”, in which Scriabin retreated from the traditional tonal system. So that they are not afraid of despair, which one can give rise to a real triumph. The one who experienced despair and defeated him is strong and powerful, ”said Alexander Skryabin. But he was not only a composer, but also a talented pianist and conductor.

Rakhmaninov was born in the Novgorod province, from the age of four he began to engage in music under the guidance of his mother. He studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, after 3 years of study he transferred to the Moscow Conservatory and graduated from a large gold medal. Glory came to him quickly, but could not do without creative crises. The failure of the “first symphony” helped rethink creativity and Rachmaninov was able to write music uniting Russian church song, outgoing European romance, modern impressionism and non -classism.In this creative period, his best works are born, among which 2 and 3 piano concerts, the second symphony and his favorite work - the poem “Bells” for the choir, soloists and the orchestra.

He freely combined genres, forms, styles, choosing them from centuries of musical history and subordinating them to his own rules. A series of three ballets: “Firebird”, “Parsley” and “Spring Spring” instantly brought Stravinsky into the ranks of composers of the first magnitude. In Stavinsky’s work, one unique feature is distinguished - “unique”, he was called the “composer of thousands of the same style”.

His works are distinguished by the constant change of the genre, style, and the direction of the plot. He was a cosmopolitan and lived in many countries, but always thought “I say in Russian all my life, I have a Russian syllable. Maybe in my music this is not immediately visible, but it is laid in it, it is in its hidden nature. ” From the age of 5 he wrote music, and already at 9 created two operas.

At 13, he passed exams to the St. Petersburg Conservatory, N. was among his teachers despite the fact that at the beginning of his career the musical world met his work with sharp criticism, he adhered to the modernist style. The ingenious paradox of his music was that having crushed academic canons, the structure of his compositions remained true to classical principles.

I adhere to the belief that the composer, like the poet, sculptor, the painter is designed to serve a person and the people ... He, first of all, must be a citizen in his art, to sing human life and lead a person to a brighter future ... ”, said Sergey Prokofiev. Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich Dmitry Shostakovich is the most executable Russian classic composer. The greatness of his work lies in the fact that the personal tragedy of a person is intertwined in him with the fate of the whole people, the stories that he told the language of the music were emotional and bright.

Already at the beginning of x, by the end of the conservatory, Shostakovich had the luggage of his own works and was one of the best composers of the country. World glory came to him after the victory in the 1st International Chopin competition in the year. Shostakovich loved experiments with genres and styles, and his greatest work was considered the opera "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk district." Shostakovich was a convinced humanist.

He said "real music is able to express only humane feelings, only advanced humane ideas."