Valery Alexandrovich Gavrilin

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Valeri Alexandrovich Gawrilin ( Russian Валерий Александрович Гаврилин ., Scientific transliteration Valery Aleksandrovich Gavrilin * 17th August 1939 in Vologda , Vologda Oblast , Soviet Union ; † 28. January 1999 in Saint Petersburg , Russia ) was a Russian -sowjetischer composer .

Life

Gavrilin's father was a teacher and died as a volunteer during the siege of Leningrad in 1942; his mother was the director of a children's home and was imprisoned in 1950. Valery Gavrilin was then taken to an orphanage near Vologda, where he learned to play the piano from Tatiana Tomaschewskaja - his mother was rehabilitated only after Stalin's death. On the recommendation of Ivan Belosemzew, Gavrilin was able to attend the music school in Leningrad with Sergei Wolfenson. From 1958 to 1963 he studied composition with Orest Jewlachow at the Leningrad Conservatory and from 1963 to 1964 folklore with Feodossi Antonowitsch Rubzow. Already during his studies he had his first success as a composer with his vocal cycle Немецкая тетрадь ( Deutsches Heft , 1962) after Heinrich Heine .

From 1965 to 1974 Gavrilin taught himself at the music school of the Conservatory and in 1969 also worked as an editor for the specialist magazine Sovietsky Kompozitor . With the song cycle Русская тетрадь ( Russian Booklet , 1965) he celebrated his breakthrough as a composer and received the State Glinka Prize in 1967 for it. His ballet Анюта ( Anjuta , 1982) based on Anton Chekhov , composed for the prominent dancers Ekaterina Maximowa and Vladimir Vasiliev, ran successfully at the Bolshoi Theater and was made into a film. Gavrilin's work Перезвоны ( bells ringing 1978–1982), a “ritual symphony” or “choral symphony action”, which achieved popularity with archaic rhythms and ostinati , also attracted a lot of attention .

After his death in 1999, the asteroid 7369 Gavrilin was named after him in 2000 . Festivals in Vologda and Saint Petersburg also bear his name, and a music competition and the Vologda Philharmonic are named after him.

style

Gawrilin composed operas, ballets, orchestral works, cantatas, chamber music, choral and vocal works as well as theater and film music. Stylistically, he remained moderately modern and tonal, his credo was to write accessible and understandable music. He mixed serious and light genres, irony and grotesque, humor and tragedy. In the wake of Georgi Swiridow, he was one of the most influential representatives of a melodic, neo-romantic style that has been known in the Soviet Union since the 1960s under the names “New Folklorism”, “New Folklore Wave” or “Third Stream” has been. This “new wave of folklore” was considered a musical counterpart to the literary “village prose” in the thaw period - it included authors such as Vasily Below , who also came from the Vologda region, but also Vasili Schukschin and Viktor Astafjew , writers on theirs Texts Gawrilin explicitly referred to as a composer.

Awards

  • 1967: State Glinka Prize of the RSFSR for Русская тетрадь ( Russian booklet )
  • 1979: Honored Artist of the RSFSR
  • 1980: Lenin Komsomol Prize
  • 1985: People's Artist of the RSFSR
  • 1985: State Prize of the USSR for Перезвоны ( ringing bells )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ksenia Suponitskaya: Valery Gavrilin and Heinrich Heine: Evolution of the Style of Composition . In: Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research . tape 171 . Atlantis Press, 2017, pp. 65–69 , doi : 10.2991 / icassee-17.2018.15 (English, atlantis-press.com [PDF; accessed on June 26, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Aleksandr Sergeyevich Belonenko:  Gavrilin, Valery Aleksandrovich. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  3. ↑ a b Igor Karpinskij:  Gavrilin, Valerij Aleksandrovič. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 7 (Franco - Gretry). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7618-1117-9  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  4. ↑ a b CV on: Mariinsky Theater (English)
  5. ↑ biography on compozitor.spb (English)
  6. ↑ a b Boris Yoffe : In the flow of the symphonic . Wolke, Hofheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-95593-059-2 , pp. 401, 180 .
  7. ↑ a b c d biography on cultinfo (English)
  8. ↑ Asteroid 7369 Gavrilin
  9. ↑ Valery Gavrilin Vologda Festival
  10. ↑ The Gavrilin International Music Festival
  11. ↑ Gavrilin Russian Music Festival
  12. ↑ Gavrilin Philharmonic, Vologda
  13. ↑ a b Not to be confused with the Third Stream of Gunther Schuller , see. Levon Hakobian: Music of the Soviet Era: 1917-1991 . 2nd Edition. Routledge, London, New York 2017, ISBN 978-1-4724-7108-6 , pp. 343 (English).
  14. ↑ a b Dorothea Redepenning : The history of Russian and Soviet music . The 20th century. tape 2.1 . Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 2008, ISBN 978-3-89007-709-3 , p. 579, 586, 589 .
personal data
SURNAME Gavrilin, Valery Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Гаврилин, Валерий Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian composer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vologda
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1999
Place of death St. Petersburg