Viktor Sergeevich Popov
Viktor Sergejewitsch Popow ( Russian Ви́ктор Серге́евич Попо́в ; born December 10, 1934 in Beschezk ; † July 28, 2008 in Moscow ) was a Russian conductor and choir director .
Life
Popov, son of Sergei Petrovich Popov (1915–1934) and Alexandra Mikhailovna Popovas (1915–1948), began his training at the Moscow choir school in 1945 . His first teacher was Alexander W. Sveshnikov , who founded the school in 1944. He then studied choir conducting at the Moscow Conservatory with Alexander Borisowitsch Chasanow (1906–1984), graduating in 1958 as a choir director.
1957–1964 Popov worked as a choirmaster of the children's choir of the Institute for Art Education of the Russian Academy of Education . 1964–1969 he was the choirmaster of the Loktew Ensemble for song and dance at the Moscow Pioneer Palace . In 1970 he founded the Great Children's Choir of All-Russian Radio and Television and was its artistic director and principal conductor. At the same time he was director of the boys' choir of the Moscow Choir School , whose principal conductor he had become in 1977 and artistic director in 1983.
From 1955 Popow also worked as a teacher. He was one of the initiators of the music faculty of the Moscow Potjomkin Institute for Education and taught there from 1959–1960. 1960–1975 he was a lecturer at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow . There he was dean of three faculties and headed the chair for choral conducting. 1980–1993 he led the choir director class at the Moscow Conservatory (since 1990 as a professor). He wrote numerous textbooks.
In 1991 Popov founded the AW Sveshnikov Choral Art Academy , named after his first teacher, on the basis of the Moscow Choir School , and became its rector, principal conductor and artistic director of the choir collective . He formed the Moscow Cathedral Choir with 65 singers from the Choir Art Academy and a group from the monk choir of the Trinity Monastery of Sergiev Posad , with which he made a guest appearance at the 7th Petersburg Dialogue in Wiesbaden in 2007 .
Popov found his grave in Moscow's Vagankovo Cemetery . He left behind his wife Isabella Pavlovna Shalimova (* 1929) and their sons Pavel (* 1964) and Alexander (* 1970). After his death, the Great Children's Choir of All-Russian Radio and TV and the AW Sveshnikov Choral Academy were named in his honor .
Honors
- Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1977)
- Lenin - Komsomol Award (1980)
- People's Artist of the RSFSR (1983)
- People's Artist of the USSR (1989)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (1994)
- Ordre des Arts et des Lettres , Komtur (1994)
- Moscow City Prize for Literature and Art (1996)
- State Prize of the Russian Federation for Literature and Art (2000)
- Triumph Prize for Literature and Art, donated in 1992 by Boris Abramowitsch Beresowski (2004)
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland , 4th grade (2005)
- Order of the Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow of the Russian Orthodox Church
- Full member of the International Academy for Informatization
literature
- Biografija.ru: Popow Viktor Sergejewitsch (Russian, accessed January 8, 2016).
- Genadi Viktorowitsch Ivanov: Popow Viktor Sergejewitsch (in: Celebrities from Beschezk , Russian, accessed on January 8, 2016).
- Obituary Viktor Popov (Russian, accessed January 8, 2016).
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Akademik: Popow Viktor Sergejewitsch (Russian, accessed on January 8, 2016).
- ^ Great Children's Choir (Russian, accessed January 8, 2016).
- ↑ Missa Mystica (accessed January 8, 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Popov, Viktor Sergeyevich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Popov, Victor Sergeevich; Попов, Виктор Сергеевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian conductor and choir director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beschezk |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 2008 |
| Place of death | Moscow |