Gorovitz biography

Moscow thaw of Vladimir Gorowitsa Historical concert of the greatest pianist Vladimir Gorowitz in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in the spring of the year could not take place.

Thousands of Soviet music lovers on April 18 were white envy of the then students and teachers of the Moscow Conservatory. The universities were witnesses to a historical event on a weekday. The leadership of the educational institution launched “its own” to rehearse the living legends of piano art of the 20th century, Vladimir Gorovitsa, who flew from the United States to the capital with a single concert.

The maestro, seeing a large number of people in the hall on the run of the performance, laid out “in full program”, forgetting about the contract and stiffly prescribed financial conditions in it. Eyewitnesses argue that in fact, in the Great Hall, the horseshoe gave two “full -fledged” enchanting performances. The planned concert took place on Sunday April 20.

The Western press counted about four hundred tickets put in free sale. The remaining thousands of places reserved at the cultural bomon. A huge crowd of “ordinary” fans, deprived of the opportunity to get inside, stood at the Conservatory building until the end of the musical evening. People did not hear, of course, not a single sound that was born and dying on the stage according to the magical will of the genius, but mentally let through the works of Scarlatti, Rachmaninov, Scriabin through themselves ...

Later, the recording of the concert, later released in the West, became a universal property, as well as the film shot about the arrival of the X summer pianist Vladimir Gorovitsa in their historical homeland after 60 years after immigration. Gorovits for a long time prepared for a visit to the USSR. Negotiations were axle - indecision showed both sides. Gorbachevskaya "Thaw" melted the ice of doubt.

However, unique tour could have broken. But, fortunately, the artist still managed to give two of the three planned concerts - in addition to Moscow, he played in Leningrad. The triumphal return of the pea to his native Kyiv did not take place. After three and a half years, the greatest pianist was gone. Vladimir studied there both his brothers Yakov and Gregory and sister Regina.

A great influence on the future pianist was exerted by an uncle - Alexander Gorovitz - one of the beloved students of Scriabin. In the year, the Kiev Musical School is transformed to the Kyiv Conservatory, where Gorovitz is studying with Vladimir Pukhalsky, Sergey Tarnovsky and Felix Blumenfeld. Gorovitsi is passionately to the music: he independently learns the works of Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky.

Later he tries to imitate Rakhmaninov and writes his own works. Vladimir wants to become a composer, but the dreams are not destined to come true. The young man ends the conservatory ahead of schedule: during the revolution, the family loses the condition, Vladimir begins to perform with solo concerts. At first, they pay more often products than money. The pianist little -known to the public collects not full halls, but over time, the rumor of virtuosa is distributed not only in Ukraine, but also to the entire Soviet Union.

Since the year, Gorovitz has been constantly touring the country, due to which a huge repertoire is accumulating. So, only in the famous "Leningrad series" the pianist gave 20 concerts. In the year, Gorovitz receives permission to go to study in Germany. Before leaving, the musician learns the first piano concert of Tchaikovsky. The audience does not share this interpretation during his debut in Beethovenhall - too expressive game.

But after some time, the pianist stunningly performs in Hamburg with the same concert, and the hall is delighted - tickets for solo concerts of the pea are sold out in a few hours. Some performances in the cities of Europe are so violently that the audience is rampant, to pacify it to the law enforcement officers. The musician begins to conquer America at the end of the x.

For several years, the horseman becomes the second most paid pianist. The first place is confidently held by the idol of the musician - Rachmaninov. But time takes his own, in the year Prokofiev writes in the diary: “What an amazing pianist; With the drying of Rachmaninov, perhaps the first. How many gradations of tenderness, especially when plays a sheet.

” Not everyone agrees with this opinion. Critics believe that the pea is not enough musicality, the game is superficial, there are too many external effects in it. In M, the pianist takes a forced pause. It returns three years later, the press is surprised: the horseman seemed to have grown himself, his game has become much deeper. Vladimir Samoilovich tours not only in America, but also in European countries, but the situation on the continent becomes more tense every year.

Tips persistently offer to return, but in Europe it becomes dangerous. In the year, Gorovitz, along with his father -in -law, Arturo Tuscanini finally emigrates to the United States. So the second period begins in the career of the musician. In the early years, the pianist tirelessly gives concerts, the revenue from which he sends to the fight against fascism. After the war, the career develops perfectly, but in the year the musician interrupts concerts for 12 years.

Wanda Tuscanini, the wife of the pianist, associated this with depression.The triumphal return will take place in Carnegie-Hall, but after a few years the horseman again goes into the shadows. But the pianist does not close from music: during the break, he constantly writes records. The pianist returns to the stage in X, and three years before his death for the first time in a long time he visits his homeland, gives triumphal concerts in Moscow and Leningrad.

His last concert sounded where the pea was opened by the European listener - in Hamburg. Vladimir Gorovitz said: “The piano game consists of common sense, heart and technical means. Everything should be developed equally: without common sense, you will tolerate a fiasco, without technology you are an amateur, without a heart - a car. So the profession is fraught with dangers. ” Text: Nikita Kurochko.