Evgeny Svetlanov Biography

The composer is Evgeny Svetlanov in the Leningrad Philharmonic on the day of the concert on April 2. Evgeny Svetlanov’s childhood passed behind the scenes of the Bolshoi Theater, in the opera troupe of which his parents served. In the party of the son of Chio-Chio-san, Zhenya, with his mother, went on stage, sang in the children's choir of the theater, but even then he decided: he would not be a singer.

Family legends say that a child, having attached himself in the corner of the hall, he secretly “conducted” the orchestra during rehearsals, and Nikolai Golovanov, seeing the boy’s waving his hands, remarked: “It is apparently a sense of this! The conservatory, however, Svetlanov enters two faculties at once: the conducting - to Gauk, and the composer - to the Shaporin.

It was as a composer that he first appears in the poster of the Great Hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic: in March, his teacher Alexander Gauk includes Svetlanov’s symphonic poem, and two months later, the team himself is at the stage of transition to the staff of the Philharmonic by the same poem by the remote control of the Grand Symphony Radio Radio, then the author himself digices, then still A student-student!

Svetlanov will represent his works here later: his author’s evenings will be held in the Great Hall - in the year with the ZKR, in M ​​- with the state order. Then he will write in the “Golden Book” of autographs: “I am immensely happy to enter the white-column hall again for me, to stand behind the remote control and hear sincere greetings so strict, and at the same time grateful audience of a beautiful legend.

And especially for true and unobtrusive attention, which is very valuable to me. Evgeny Svetlanov »5. Evgeny Svetlanov in a concert on April 23. Shostakovich and the conductor's career of Svetlanova began, as he dreamed, at the Bolshoi Theater. In the year, barely receiving a diploma, he represents the first opera on the main stage of the country - “Pskovite”. In the theater, he will linger for ten years, with GO - as the main conductor.

During these years, Svetlanov conducts 25 repertoire performances, of which 12 puts himself. Under the control of Svetlanov, the “Faust” of Guno, Rigoletto and Othello Verdi, several ballets, including the “night city” to the music of the “wonderful mandarin” Bartock are the unsuccessful experiment of the choreographer Leonid Lavrovsky are under the control of Svetlanov. But the creative interests of the conductor are focused on Russian music.

For films-Oper, Svetlanov writes the “Peak Lady” and “Khovanshchina”. So since his youth, he approaches the grandiose “anthology of Russian music”, which will include all the symphonies of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Maskovsky, many works of Balakirev, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Lyadov, Glazunov, Skryabin, Skryabin, Skryabinsky, Sviridov ... The Russian and Soviet classics occupies the most important place in the Leningrad programs of Svetlanov.

In the concert of January 18. Orchestra ZKR. Shostakovich is gradually increasing in the repertoire of the conductor is Western music. Evgeny Svetlanova Leningrad's debut will be held in the Great Hall in December, while he was the guest conductor, the head of the orchestra was then Konstantin Ivanov. In m, abruptly, immediately after the triumphal tour of the Bolshoi Theater in Italy, having left the troupe with whom he dreamed of working from his youth, Svetlanov becomes the chief conductor of the state order.

Fate will bind them for 35 years, and in the history of the team they will become decisive. With his orchestra, Svetlanov gives an incredible number of concerts around the world, makes many records. The first of the Russian conductors, Svetlanov will write down all the symphonies of Mahler. The author’s evening of Evgeny Svetlanova on February 5 was for the summer. Shostakovich E years will make changes not only to the status of an orchestra - the abbreviation “USSR” disappears from its name, but also in relations with the chief conductor.

Svetlanov still tours a lot, speaking with the leading orchestras of the world, in-takes the position of the chief conductor of the Hague resident or orchestra. His own team remains in Moscow, feels financially deprived, and discontent is growing among the orchestrandants. The last joint concert of the State Core and Svetlanova will be held in the Great Hall of the St.

Petersburg Philharmonic on October 22. The program, obviously designed for cash success, sounds Bernstein, Lowe, Freddie Mercury, Lennon, McCartney in processing. Symbol is the name of the program - "Hits of the outgoing century." In a concert on March 20. Shostakovich ended in the protracted conflict of the state order and its long -term leader: on April 16, the contract with Svetlanov was terminated.

Surely then each of the parties held on its truth. History will take the side of the great conductor: in the year, the State Orchestra of Russia will be given the name Svetlanov. The gap with the musicians with whom he worked half his life, Evgeny Fedorovich perceived very hard. He was sick, underwent several operations, as a result of which he lost his legs and conducted, standing on a prosthesis.

At the same time, he refused to manage the orchestra, as he refused and reduce the pace of work. There is so much good music that there are not enough few lives to fulfill everything. ”But with his own experience, he seemed to try to refute these words and have time as much as possible.

GO Svetlanov serves as an honorary conductor of the Bolshoi Theater, continues to tour, on December 1 and 2, gives the last concerts in the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic: under his control, the Honored team performs Symphony fantasies for Wagner Opera “Nibelung Ring” and “Parsifal”, the arrangement of Dutch Henke de Fliger. Svetlanov is only 72 years old, but he is clearly busy with the completion of the plots begun in his youth: in the Bolshoi Theater, as during his long -standing debut, he again puts the “Pskovite”, in the National Opera of Montpellier conducts the opera “Madame Butterfly” Puccini, in which the boy went on stage with the mother.

From the Weimar Museum of the Liszt, the oratorio “Christ” is specially prescribed for him, to which Evgeny Svetlanov says goodbye to the public - Moscow and foreign. The conductor was not able to perform her in St. Petersburg. Shostakovich P. From the end of the X - early X -Chinese in the Philharmonic posters of Svetlanov, dedications often appear to the departed great conductors, whose "family" of which was involved in Evgeny Fedorovich himself.

In the Great Hall, he performed programs dedicated to the memory of Mravinsky, the memory of Karayan, the memory of Bernstein. And in the year here, under the direction of Alexander Vedernikov, a memorable concert was held for the anniversary of the birth of the conductor. The young musicians Benjamin Ellin and Robert Trevinho, the laureates of the conducting contest named after Evgeny Svetlanov, who have been held in Paris, also performed in the Big Hall.