Biography Shchedrin Musician

Rodion Shchedrin devoted his life to his life in the latest news to promoting music to the masses. To play his works, orchestras and conductors line up, the scores will be found to publish for the honor of any publishing house. The composer is called a classic during life, and the orchestrations performed by him - with brilliant creations with a minimum set of funds with maximum expressiveness.

Childhood and youth Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin - Muscovite, was born on December 16, one day with another great composer - Ludwig Van Beethoven. The music surrounded the boy from an early age. The mother of Concordia Ivanovna was an economist by education, but was warmly treated with musical art. Father Konstantin Mikhailovich graduated from the spiritual seminary, loved to sing and possessed absolute hearing.

He was the son of a priest and could follow in his footsteps, but thanks to the patronage of Vera Pashennoy, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory, became a teacher. Father forced his son to study, promising that then they would go fishing, which the boy adored. Thanks to this, he mastered the basics of playing the piano. Shchedrin’s studies at a music school at the conservatory was prevented by the war.

The family was forcibly evacuated to Kuibyshev. It was not easy for parents, Konstantin Mikhailovich was the responsible secretary, Concordia Ivanovna was sent to work for the needs of the army. And the boy, remaining unattended, disappeared all day on the street with the other guys. They were looking for food, hooligan and then, under the influence of patriotic films, decided to go to fight.

For the first time, the children returned, without reaching the front line. But the second attempt was more successful, and in m, the modern and family, Rodion was on the battlefield. But soon the uncle, a high -ranking official, helped to return the fugitive. When his father returned, he decided to put his son and send to the Nakhimov school. But he was called to teach at the Church School of Alexander Sveshnikov, and Shchedrin Sr.

arranged a boy there. At the Moscow Conservatory, Shchedrin studied at two faculties - piano and composer, among professors Yakov Fleer and Yuri Shaporin. The young man played the piano perfectly, and at some point the performance captured so much that he decided to devote himself only to this. Fortunately, they dissuaded. In the fourth year, Rodion was included in the Union of Composers.

Later, having headed him, he sought to follow the principle of the former leader, Dmitry Shostakovich, to help colleagues-musicians in everything. At such a crucial post, Shchedrin spent up to a year. Composer Rodion Shchedrin Fate Shchedrin was successful. In an interview, he said that under the Soviet regime, the overwhelming majority of composers was a sin to complain.

The courage of the work of the celebrity is due to the fact that he is the representative of the generation of sixties, the time when the dogmas were rejected and individuality was put at the forefront. Love for them appeared while traveling to grandmother to Aleksino. There, according to the stories of the musician, he heard the voices of professional posters, and they fascinated him.

In the year, Shchedrin graduated from graduate school. At this point, he managed to write the ballet “Horse-Bill” based on the fairy tale Peter Ershov. The presentation for a long time was an adornment of the repertoire of the Konstantin Stanislavsky musical theater, and at the turn of the century was presented at the Bolshoi Theater. The young author also created his first symphony.

It was during this period that his illustrious Carmen Suite appeared, which he wrote in just 20 days. To refresh the sound of the opera Carmen, the composer replaced the symphony orchestra with shock and string instruments. The production has become a classic. Other works by which the author’s track record was enriched is the opera “Not only Love” and the tragic second symphony, reflecting the spirit of the war.

Not forgetting about love for Russian folklore, Rodion Konstantinovich reflected her in the concert "Nazi ditties." And thanks to friendship with Andrei Voznesensky, a “poetry” appeared on the poet’s poetry. The next decade brought to the admirers of Shchedrin’s work “Dead Souls”, created on the basis of the work of Nikolai Gogol. When writing it, the composer was not again without the innovative ideas: he introduced the second chamber choir to replace the violins.

Two famous ballets appeared - “Anna Karenina” and “The Seagull”. The last musical critics praised for fragility, transparency of the sound. The choreographer and performer of the main role was the illustrious Maya Plisetskaya. By the years of the adoption of Christianity in Rus', Rodion Konstantinovich prepared the Liturgy “Imprinted” according to the story of Nikolai Leskov. During this period, the composer was increasingly called to work abroad.

In the year, he became an honorary guest of the Soviet-American festival "Making music together." For the first time, the production was shown in Stockholm and only after almost 10 years - in the Russian city of Perm. Rodion Konstantinovich devoted to American virtuoso, the holder of the three Grammy Lorin Maazel, who was published later, the “fascinated wanderer”. Then, the “noblewoman of Morozov” and “left-handed” came out of the pen of Shchedrin.The last opera was written specifically for Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theater.

The composer’s anniversary dates have always become great holidays for musical fans. In M, to the summer of the master, in his homeland, a large -scale festival “Rodion Shchedrin. The birthday wife was with him in the hall as a spectator, and the party Carmen was performed by Anastasia Volochkova, who was preparing for a responsible performance under the supervision of the legend of the Russian ballet.

And at the end of the year, the documentary “Passion for Shchedrin” was released by the composer’s summer anniversary. Festivals were held in Moscow and the cities of Russia. The Russian National Orchestra under the leadership of Mikhail Pletnev, Valery Gergiev with the symphony orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater, and other well -known groups and musicians performed on stage sites.

Rodion Konstantinovich himself presented to the fans a novelty - “an essay for the choir. A cappella". In honor of this event, the Russia-Culture channel prepared an extensive program: the program “Life Line” dedicated to the master was published, the film “Passion for Shchedrin” was again shown, the film-ballet “Lady with the Dog” was broadcast. On Channel One, the documentary “Shchedrin-Suite” was presented.

In the year, the composer handed over his own manuscripts to the Museum of Music, which became a significant event. Among other things, there was the last at that time an orchestral essay, written three years earlier - “The Adventures of the Monkey”. For 57 years, personal life was the wife of Shchedrin, the Maya Plisetskaya herself, an epoch -making person in ballet.

For a beloved woman, the composer wrote masterpieces and gave them instead of banal bouquets, although fresh flowers in the house appeared every day. The ballerina herself admitted that her beloved husband extended her century on stage. Shchedrin and Plisetskaya for the first time saw in the house of Lily Brik, on an evening arranged in honor of Gerard Philip.

But even before that, Lily included a recording for a friend, where the artist hummed music from the ballet Sergey Prokofiev, while definitely getting into the notes. But three years have passed before the first date. They were united by work on the ballet "Horse-Bank". After the vacation of the ballerina and the composer did not part together.

Rodion was faithful to his wife all his life and considered her his own muse. Maya treated her husband as a deity and said that they had a providence. Everyone outlined his own love story, as well as many other facts from his personal life in books. The prima wrote two - “I, Maya Plisetskaya” and “13 years later”, and her husband is “autobiographical records”. As a guest in the program of Vladimir Pozner, the composer said that he trusted his wife to the solution of this delicate issue.

She was afraid to ruin her career, so she did not dare to give birth. Around the famous couple, rumors were constantly breed. For one of them, actress Maria Shella gave her favorite apartment in Munich Shchedrina. The star of German cinema was sister Maximilian Shella, her husband Natalia Andreichenko. Rodion Konstantinovich, however, never denied that he was friends with Shella, but nothing more.

He lives in Germany, occasionally visiting the cottage in the Baltic states that her wife loved. But the music of the maestro still sounds in his homeland: in the spring of the year Shchedrin was held “not only love” by Conductor Felix Korobov, and on the eve of the next birthday a “poetry” performed by the orchestra and choir of the Mariinsky Theater. And for a year the opening of the first museum of Rodion Shchedrin was announced in Russia.

The place was chosen symbolic - a house in Aleksin, where the musician spent the years of youth. Rodion Konstantinovich himself learned about the initiative after the official announcement, but took enthusiasm. It is assumed that the museum will have a permanent exposition, as well as a platform for the performance of invited guests and conducting thematic events.