Varlamov Gurilev biography

In the year, A. Varlamov was sent to St. Petersburg, to the court singing chapel, and was enrolled in a minor singer. The sonorous voice and talent of the boy were marked by the director of the chapel by the famous composer D. Bortnyansky in the year Varlamov was sent to Holland as a teacher of singers in the Russian embassy church in the Hague. There he began to act as a singer and guitarist.

During his stay in Holland, he composed the instrumental play “Memory of Russia”.

In the year, Varlamov returns to St. Petersburg, where he begins to teach at a theater school, to engage in the singers of the Preobrazhensky and Semenovsky regiments, then he again enters the singing chapel by a chorist and teacher of young singers. The following is a variety of creative life. From the year - an assistant capester of Moscow Imperial Theaters, where he soon also took the place of the "composer of music".

The circle of communication is M. Glinka, actors M. Shchepkin, P. Mochalov, composers A. Vertovsky, A. Gurilev, A. Dyubyuk, poet N. Tsyganov, writer M. In the early X, the first romances and songs of Varlamov appear, which immediately get success, spread in manuscripts even before the publication, multiply in the form of musical transfers, sound in performances.

Varlamov most acts as a singer. The programs of vocal Varlam's concerts usually consisted of his own romances and folk songs, which he sang with rare sincerity and simplicity. In the year, he published the "School of Singing" - this was the first major work in Russia on the methodology of teaching vocal skills. Varlamov dreamed of creating a Russian school of singing, based on comprehension of melodics and performing principles of folk songs, which he mastered very deeply.

But life proceeded in great difficulties and hardships. Varlamov died of tuberculosis. His departure from life caused numerous reviews in the press. There were poetic and musical. So, for example, Alexander Gurilev, using the theme of the Barlamov romance "Solovushko", created the romance "Choosing about Varlamov" for D.'s poems of the same name, a collective essay appeared - piano variations on the theme of Varlamov’s romance "Nightingale of the Hall." In the year, the Musical Collection in memory of A.

Varlamov was published, which included, along with his works, also the romances of Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Alyabyev, Gurilev, Rubinstein and others. Dargomyzhsky organizes a concert in favor of the Varlamov family. Several romances are composed of their poems. It must be emphasized that it was Barlamov that were opened for Russian music Koltsov, Fet and other outstanding poets. Varlamov’s special love for the folk song was reflected in collecting samples of folklore.

The composer handed over the texts of two historical songs about the capture of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible to the meeting of P. at the beginning of his composer activity, in the answer of the criticism of “Rumor” about the song of Fiona, do not make noise, violent winds “from the play of A. Shakhovsky“ Roslavlev ”, Varlamov replies:“ The motive of my song is not borrowed from the folk tungeal and I really belonged to me, and I am very happy that I knew that I knew that make it folk.

" Barlamov was conceived by the publication of a large -scale meeting of songs of various Slavic peoples: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Serbian and others. The first issue of the Russian Singer collection intended to give Russian and Ukrainian samples of song processing, but he managed to prepare for publication only at the end of the 19th century the Orenel magazine, wrote: “And still vaults of temples, the halls of palaces, scenes of theaters, living rooms of the nobles, the attic of officials, the plank ceilings of the wretched hut and wide fields are announced by its wondrous and bluish.

melody. The folk club of Russian bass lovers on the year of the anniversary of the birth of Alexander Egorovich Varlamov devoted his sixth meeting with the program of the concert "Russian bass in the old Russian romance."