Sviridov Wikipedia biography

His father was a postal employee, and his mother was a teacher. His father, Vasily Sviridov, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the civil war, was killed when George was 4 years old. The family moved to Kursk when George was 9 years old. There George Sviridov, studying in elementary school, learned to play on his first musical instrument, balalaika. Learning to choose by ear, he demonstrated such a talent and ability that he was accepted into the local ensemble of folk instruments.

He graduated from a music school in the year, and, on the advice of his teacher, M. Krutinsky, moved to Leningrad in the year, where he was engaged in the piano at the Leningrad School, which he graduated from the year. Mobilized in the Soviet Armed Forces, a few days later, the ends of the conservatory, Sviridov was sent to the Military Academy in Ufa, but was commissed at the end of the year for health reasons.

He lived in Novosibirsk until a year, where the Leningrad Philharmonic was evacuated. Like other composers, he begins to write military songs, of which, perhaps, “Song of Bold” to the poems of A. In addition, he wrote music for the performances of theaters evacuated to Siberia. 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 symphony, concerts, oratorios, cantata, songs and romances. In June, at the festival of Russian and Soviet songs held in France, the local seal introduced Sviridov to her sophisticated public as “the most poetic of modern Soviet composers” [2]. In recent years, George Sviridov has been sick a lot. The civilian requiem and the funeral of G. Sviridov took place on January 9 in Moscow.

After the funeral service in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the funeral of G. took his last shelter the body of the great composer found in the Novodevichy cemetery [4] [5]. Music wrote his first works of Sviridov in the year - a cycle of lyrical romances to Pushkin’s words. While he was studying at the Leningrad Conservatory, with software, Sviridov experimented with different genres and different types of composition.

Sviridov’s style has changed significantly in the early stages of his work. His early things were written in the style of classical romantic music and were similar to the work of German romantics. Sviridov later tried to write works that were exclusively Russian in nature. While Sviridov’s music remained uncomplicated in the West, in Russia his work was enjoyed by critics and listeners for their simple, lyrical melodies and folk character.

Sviridov continued and developed the experience of Russian classics, primarily Modest Mussorgsky, enriching him with the achievements of the XX century.

He uses the traditions of ancient Kant, ritual seeds; a banner of the gear, and at the same time - a modern city mass song. Sviridov’s work combines novelty, the identity of the musical language, honeness, and exquisite simplicity. The memory of Sviridov on September 23 in Kursk was the first monument to the composer, on which his words were carved: “To sing Rus', where the Lord gave and told me to live, rejoice and suffer” [6] [7].

Works of the grave of Sviridov in the Novodevichy cemetery 7 small plays for piano - 6 romances on words A. Pushkin 7 romances to the words of M. Music to the monument to the “Spring Cantata” to the Kursk Bulge for the Choir and Orchestra Okorovaya Concert “Memory of A. Yurlov” for the mixed choir, singing without the words of the Kantata “Oda Lenin” for the words of Robert Rozhdestvensky, choir and orchestra of the Home of 25 choreles for bass and piano - “Non -native ones -“ Night Clouds ”, Kantata to the words of Alexander Blok for the mixed choir a cappella 10 romances to the words of A.

Blok -“ Ladoga ”, a poem for the choir to the words of A. Prokofiev“ Songs ”, a concert for choir a kappella to the words of Alexander Blok -“ Petersburg ”, vocal poem“ Chanter and Prayer ”for the choir unaccompanied [8] Literature of the city