Vitaly Alexandrovich Gromadski

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Witali Alexandrovich Gromadsky ( Ukrainian Віталій Олександрович Громадський , English transliteration Vitaly Alexandrovich Gromadsky ; born December 10, 1928 in Komariwka in Teplyk district , Vinnytsia Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian SSR .

life and work

Gromadski studied singing in Alexander Sveshnikov's class at the Moscow Conservatory . He completed his studies in 1960 and in the same year won first prize at the International Schumann Competition held in Berlin at the time . From 1961 to 1988 Gromadski was the bassist of the Moscow Philharmonic Society.

Gromadski became known when he appeared as a soloist at the world premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's 13th Symphony Babi Yar on December 18, 1962 in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. The 13th symphony sets the poem Babi Yar by Yevgeny Yevtushenko to music with the complaint that the Jewish victims of Babyn Yar were not commemorated by the state even 20 years after the massacre carried out by task forces of the security police and the SD - at that time a “ musical statement against anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union ”. After both Shostakovich and the performing conductor Kirill Kondrashin were urged several times not to perform, the bassist Viktor Netschipailo canceled his solo appearance on the day of the concert. Gromadski, who had participated equally in all rehearsals, took over the premiere and the second performance on December 20, 1962.

Gromadski's sound carrier recordings with works by Shostakovich:

  • 13th symphony. Live recording on December 20, 1962 with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Kirill Kondrashin. Released in 1993 by the Russian Disc label. (Original poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, this was shortened for the following concert performances.)
  • The execution of Stepan Razin. (Libretto by Yevgeny Yevtushenko). Recording on December 28, 1964 with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Kirill Kondrashin, published by Melodija .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b I. M. Lyssenko: ГРОМА́ДСЬКИЙ Віталій Олександрович. Institute for Encyclopedia, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2006, accessed November 3, 2018 (Ukrainian).
  2. ↑ Prize winners. International Robert Schumann Competition for Piano and Voice , accessed on November 3, 2018 .
  3. ^ Sabine Adler : 75th anniversary of Babi Yar. "I was buried alive". Deutschlandfunk , September 29, 2016, accessed on November 24, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Annika Tüssel: A symphony like a novel. BR-Klassik , June 27, 2018, accessed on November 23, 2018 .
  5. ^ Krzysztof Meyer : Schostakowitsch: His life, his work, his time . Schott Music , 1998, ISBN 978-3-254-08376-0 ( limited preview in Google book search English).
  6. ^ Gregor Tassie: Kirill Kondrashin: His Life in Music . Paperback Shop, Cirencester 2010, ISBN 978-0-8108-6974-5 ( limited preview in Google book search English).
  7. ↑ Laurel E. Fay: KShostakovich: A Life . Paperback Shop, Oxford University Press , 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-513438-4 ( limited preview in Google Book Search English).
  8. ↑ Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar" For Bass, Chorus And Orchestra Op. 113 Discogs , accessed November 23, 2018 .
  9. ^ Levon Hakobian: Music of the Soviet Era: 1917-1991. Taylor & Francis, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-472-47108-6 . ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  10. ↑ Казнь Степана Разина (Поэма Для Баса, Хора И Оркестра). Discogs , accessed November 23, 2018 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Gromadski, Vitaly Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Громадський, Віталій Олександрович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ukrainian singer of the pitch bass
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Komariwka , Rajon Teplyk , Oblast Vinnytsia , Ukrainian SSR