Véronique Lautard-Shevchenka

Véronique Lautard-Schewtschenka ( Russian Вера Лотар-Шевченка or Вера Лотар-Шевченко , internationally Vera Lothar-Shevchenko, Vera Lotar-Shevchenko or Vera Lotar *  10. March 1901 in Turin , Italy ; †  10. December 1982 in Novosibirsk , Russia ) was a Russian - French pianist .

Life

Véronique Lautard-Shevchenka was born in Turin to a Spanish mother and a French father. The parents taught mathematics and philology at the Paris Sorbonne . Lautard-Schewtschenka began playing the piano at the age of five, and at the age of 12 she was already giving concerts under Arturo Toscanini . She attended the Paris Conservatory , was a student of Alfred Cortot and then studied at the Vienna Music Academy . After her academic years, Lautard-Shevchenka gave concerts around the world, and tours took her to New York and Buenos Aires .

In the mid-1930s she married the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Shevchenko in Paris. The couple and their child as well as two children from Shevchenko's previous marriage moved to the USSR in 1938, where Lautard-Shevchenka was introduced to the music world by Marija Yudina . The pianist and her husband were in 1941 by the NKVD arrested and Lautard-Schewtschenka in the Siberian Gulag SachalinLag , in the years after Norilsk and after SewUralLag V spent.

While in custody, Lautard-Shevchenka learned of the death of her husband and their child. Her stepchildren had been reported missing. During her several years of imprisonment in the camp - the survival of which she owed to a camp doctor who recognized the pianist and had her assigned to work in the kitchen - the pianist had no piano. Lautard-Schewtschenka made do with a wooden board into which she scratched keys and from then on played her favorite composers Johann Sebastian Bach , Ludwig van Beethoven , Frédéric Chopin and Claude Debussy without sound .

After the camp imprisonment Lautard-Shevchenka lived impoverished and on her own as a piano teacher in Nizhny Tagil and occasionally gave concerts at the local music theater. After her complete rehabilitation in 1955, she moved to Barnaul and got a job at the Altai Philharmonic. In December 1965, Simon Solovjetschik wrote an essay in Komsomolskaya Pravda on the fate of the pianist - who refused to return to France - and in the mid-1970s she received an invitation to the Novosibirsk State Symphony Orchestra, for which she worked as a soloist until the end of her life was. In addition, she performed regularly in Moscow , Saint Petersburg , Odessa and Omsk until 1982 .

In 1971, the Soviet music magazine Krugozor published a flexi single in issue no. 1 with a Lautard-Shevchenka fragment from Beethoven's piano sonata no. 32 in C minor, op. 111 . Altogether only seven recordings by Lautard-Shevchenka have survived, among them the Chopin Etudes op.10 and op.25 in a recording from 1956.

Lautard-Shevchenka was buried in the South Cemetery of Akademgorodok , Novosibirsk. Her motto is engraved on the tombstone: Жизнь, в которой есть Бах, благословенна (Blessed is the life of the one who met Bach)

Véronique Lautard Shevchenka Piano Competition

The competition, which is held at two-year intervals, is under the patronage of Mikhail Pletnjow , Tatiana Jumaschewa and others. Annie Girardot was a member of the Board of Trustees until her death. The head of the competition is the journalist and deputy editor-in-chief of Zinoviev magazine Yuri Valeryevich Danilin. The jury is international.

The first three competitions in 2006, 2008 and 2010 were held in Novosibirsk. In 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018 Yekaterinburg was the venue.

The piano competition was founded by the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center , also known as the center of the historical legacy of the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin , Novosibirsk Oblast , the Novosibirsk State Philharmonic, the Novosibirsk State Conservatory of MI Glinka and the Novosibirsk Academic Opera and Ballet Theater .

literature

• Yuri Valeryevich Danilin: Портреты по памяти. Novaya Gazeta , Moscow 2008, ISBN 978-5-903080-07-6 (Russian).
• Yuri Valeryevich Danilin (Ed.): Умри или Будь !: вспоминая Веру Лотар-Шевченко. (Festschrift on the occasion of the Véronique Lautard-Shevchenka piano competition 2012).
• Jean-Pierre Thiollet : L comme Lautard. In: Improvisation so piano . Neva Editions, Paris 2017, pages 74 to 78, ISBN 978-2-35055-228-6 (French).

Movies

Ruth , a feature film based on the life of Lautard-Shevchenka and starring Annie Girardot, was released in 1989. Tajik director Valery Ayadov directed the Soviet-German production of Tajikfilm and Blick in die Welt .

The documentary Жизнь, в которой есть Бах ... by the Russian film director Alexei Burjukin shows the participants of the Véronique Lautard Shevchenka piano competition 2014, as well as contemporary witnesses and archive material on the life and work of the pianist. Provided by the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center on YouTube on January 11, 2016 (Russian).

Web links

• Website of the Véronique Lautard Shevchenka Piano Competition
• Biography of Véronique Lautard-Shevchenka on the website of the piano competition

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ВСПОМНИТЬ ВЕРУ. In: Science in Siberia (weekly newspaper). Siberian Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences , January 27, 2006, accessed October 2, 2018 (in Russian). 
2. ↑ Вера Лотар-Шевченко. Discogs , accessed September 30, 2018 (Russian). 
3. ↑ Le Concours Vera Lautard. Association France-Oural, accessed September 30, 2018 (French). 
4. ↑ Kim Smirnov: Умри или Будь! Преодоление. Novaya Gazeta , August 14, 2018, accessed September 30, 2018 (Russian). 
5. ↑ ЗИНОВЬЕВ. Исключительный журнал . Zinoviev, magazine commemorating Alexander Zinoviev , 2009 ( full text in the Google book search - (Russian)).
6. ↑ Excerpt from the book Портреты по памяти . Novaya Gazeta , December 8, 2005, accessed September 30, 2018 (Russian). 
7. ↑ Zoja Eroschjok: Умри или Будь! Novaya Gazeta , June 21, 2012, accessed September 30, 2018 (Russian). 
8. ↑ Ruf (1989) in the Internet Movie Database (English)