Biography of the singer Vinogradov

Georgy Vinogradov - the king of piercing tango, I don’t pray to you about love, in my letter there is no reproach - I still love you with my heart with those who sang in distant pre -war and post -war years. And today I want to dwell on the lyrical tenor, which was once put on a par with Kozlovsky and Lemeshev. And although the opera scene did not become his platform for the performance, he perfectly performed many opera parties.

However, in the memory of millions, he remained like a singer who perfectly performs lyrical songs. You never paid attention to how the eyes of the elderly flare up when they hear the sounds of tango “my happiness” and “love”. Today we will talk about George Pavlovich Vinogradov, the first performer of these works. What attracts us so much in the work of George Vinogradov.

This is, first of all, a wonderful voice, amazing sincerity of execution. The manner of its performance was different from many singers of that time. He extremely subtly felt music, a melody created by the composer. He did not allow the slightest falsehood, nor in feeling, nor in the drawing of a musical phrase, or in a shade of sound. He immediately aroused the confidence of the listener and, probably, therefore was so loved and popular.

All this, in addition to the natural gift, was laid in Vinogradov by his teacher. And of course, a huge work. In the art of George Vinogradov there was a precious tradition of the domestic vocal school. A tradition that was closely connected with the names of Varlamov, Glinka, Dargomyzhsky. Music needs the soul. Perfection of singing consists in two qualities - the elegance and expressiveness of Alexander Egorovich Varlamov.

These words can be fully attributed to the vocal manner of George Vinogradov. Without any exaggeration, one can say: for many years Vinogradov’s voice sounded daily in every house, in a club, on the squares, poured from open windows. His voice sounded from patrifons, radio points, a radio, loudspeakers. The biography of George Pavlovich Vinogradov indicates that talent, giftedness necessarily lead a person to the main goal, to a true life vocation.

Georgy Pavlovich Vinogradov was born in Kazan on the 3rd according to the old style, and on the new one, on November 16, in a religious family. Usually, the newborn was given the name of the Holy and Future Singer, the name of Attik, Agapia, Evdoxia, Kateria, Iducaria, Pactovia or Nobody hard to say, no matter what the further fate of the boy with that name could give the name.

He would become a folk favorite. But the careful church chronicle retained the memory of the renewal of the Great Martyr George in Lida on this day, and the baby was called George. He was born in a musically gifted family, and his abilities appeared very early, just like his other brothers and sisters. George Pavlovich began to sing early. But to say that he immediately fell in love with singing is to error against the truth, since his first “concert venue” was the Church of the Epiphany and Peter and Paul Churches of Kazan where the Vinogradov family lived then.

The head of the family certainly wanted all his children to sing in the church choir. Pavel Vasilievich Vinogradov - the father of the future singer - was not particularly devout. All his children had a great hearing and were very musical, and there was not enough money to give them a musical education. But, no matter how limited and monotonous the church repertoire, musical diploma, the basics of acapelous singing, George Pavlovich received in the church choir was monotonous.

In the choir, he got acquainted with a musical literacy, with the beauty and wealth of the treasury of church chants. He experienced his first acting experience at eight years, speaking in the church choir, where he comprehended the basics of vocals. Singing in the choir helped him get acquainted with the musical literacy and work of the then composers. Music carried him.

The teaching at the school of the first stage coincided with the admission to the club of amateur dealers. The elder brother learned to play cello, while George chose the violin. The instrument was rented by the club directorate. However, after George successfully performed at the concert of railway amateur performances, and the Vinogradov family hot applauded the debutant, his father went to unforeseen expenses and bought his son a violin.

George did not part with her for a long time. After the sudden death of his father, George had to take care of the family, he left music classes and went to work as a telegraph operator at the Kazan station. In the spring of the year, George Vinogradov enters the fourth year of the Rabfak and at the same time becomes a free listener of the Eastern Musical College in Kazan, where he studies with a professor, People's Artist of the USSR A.

Litvinov Violin, then Alt. In the Vinogradov family album, a firm yellowed photo is stored, which captures four graduates of this technical school. On it - Vinogradov with an alt in his hands. After graduating from the Rabfaka in the year, Vinogradov received an official direction to Moscow to study at the Military Academy of Communications named after Podbelsky. Vinogradov studied already in the 4th year, when he realized that it was not formulas to carry him away, but music.It is not known how the further fate of the cadet of Vinogradov has developed, how he would become an officer or engineer.

Having not yet chosen the singing of his profession, being still an amateur singer, he repeatedly takes first places and receives the first bonuses at city views and vocal Olympiads. But again, "His Majesty the Case intervened." The meeting with the professor of the conservatory Nazariy Grigoryevich Raysky determined the life path of Vinogradov. Georgy Pavlovich submits a dismissal report from the Academy.

After long explanations and conversations, the head of the Academy finally gave permission to this. One of the concertmasters of the Bolshoi Theater, having heard Georgy Pavlovich performed the Kavatin of the prince from the opera A. Dargomyzhsky, said: "I don’t know if you will get an engineer, but a good singer, to be seriously engaged, it turns out for sure." At that time, in Moscow, at the conservatory, a Tatar opera studio was created, where he knew the Tatar language as a native of Kazan and Vinogradov was enlisted.

The cadet of the fourth year of the Academy, in front of which the diploma loomed, becomes a freshman of the conservatory. Here he met with a wonderful person and teacher, whose role in the life of the singer was huge - with Mikhail Lvovich Lvov Nast. B - Lviv worked as an editor and teacher of the All -Union Radio Committee. Vinogradov always talked about Lviv with gratitude and warmth: “A great master, a wonderful singer himself, and what a teacher!

Could squeeze everything out of the man! From Vinogradov soloist of the All -Union radio. Seeing the outstanding abilities of the young singer, Lviv then suggested Vinogradov to try his hand at the first All -Union vocalist competition. It was even scary to think! But he set to work immediately. Together with Lvov, they prepared a repertoire, and he was quite extensive: arias from operas, romances, and Russian folk songs.

Rehearsed day and night, meticulously worked out every note. And on December 21, the first all -Union vocal competition began. How many anxieties, unrest were - the best singers from all over the country gathered! The chairman of the jury was the People's Artist of the Soviet Union Valery Vladimirovna Barsova the real name - Vladimirova. The WTO room, where the singers performed, was not heated, the audience sat in fur coats, and the artists walked from his mouth.

Vinogradov recalled: “During the first round - I myself already sang - I stand behind the curtains and listen to how other singers speak. I step back from foot to foot and patry myself with my hands on the sides of the cold. Suddenly, one of the jury members, People's Artist of the Republic Sergey Ivanovich Migay, approaches me, and says: “What, frozen? Nothing, nothing!

You have a very good voice in the cold. ” The first round passed, the second and, finally, January 7 of the year - the third, final. The composer Vano Muradeli in “Evening Moscow” then wrote: “The last tour of the vocalist contest began yesterday in the large hall of the conservatory by the performance of the soloist of the All -Union Radio Committee, this young singer Lyric tenor is endowed with many excellent qualities.

First of all, this is a smart singer who knows his vocal resources well and never trying to cross the limits of his capabilities, he is always faithful to artistic instinct, does not force sound, and does not thicken it. The second feature of his talent is a subtle understanding of his performed work and a wide variety of shades. Vinogradov - a singer, undoubtedly, chamber plan. " Vinogradov and Professor M.

Nemenov-Luntz in her article in Izvestia also appreciated the talent of Vinogradov: “G. Vinogradov has a small, but pleasant timbre with a lyrical tenor, which he has with great skill. Lack of forcing, pure intonation, good diction, taste and genuine musicality. ” And then Vinogradov is one of the ten laureates of the first all -Union vocal competition. Later, Valery Barsova and George Vinogradov will be participants in the solemn evening in honor of the opening of the Tchaikovsky concert hall in the year.

This was the first official performance of the singer before the sophisticated Moscow public. The most tender coloral soprano and lyrical tenor conquered the hearts of the listeners. In January, his solo concert was held in the Great Hall of the Conservatory. Thanks to the musician Kruchinin, a rare connoisseur of gypsy folklore and romance, the second branch was a discovery for the public of the new Vinogradov.

Old Russian and gypsy romances sounded classically clean, with sincere excitement and trepidation. And then?