Vladimir Afanassjewitsch Schwez

Vladimir Shvets Afanassjevitch ( Russian Владимир Афанасьевич Швец * January 30 ^{. Jul} / 12. February  1916 ^{. Greg} in Verbovka at Cherkassy ; † 13. February 1991 ) was a Ukrainian - Russian music teacher , musicologist , translator and composer .

Life

Shvets' father Afanassi Maximowitsch Shvets came from a farming family and graduated from the business school in Zvenigorod and then the Trade Institute Kiev . Schwez 'mother Yevgenia Klementjewna was the daughter of the musician and conductor of the Kiev opera KG Batschinski. In 1933 the Schwez family settled in Odessa . Here Schwez completed his training at the cooperative technical center at the request of his father.

As a ten-year-old, Schwez had already strived for a music education . One day he went to the conservatory in the building of the former German school at St. Paul's Church , where Svyatoslav Teofilowitsch had studied Richter and where the piano teacher NG Towbin was important to him. After graduating from the commercial institute, Schwez was unable to enter the conservatory immediately. Only after completing the third course at the music school and passing the exams was he accepted as a student in the theoretical department of the conservatory in August 1940. He studied with Serafim Dmitrijewitsch Orfejew , Leonid Simonowitsch Gurow , the sisters Wera and Marija Basilewitsch and AA Bannikowa. His most important teachers were Porfiri Ustinowitsch Moltschanow and SD Kondratjew. With Moltschanow he composed a sinfonietta and then a piano concerto . He wrote albums with songs and romances for piano and a cantata based on the words of Alexei Konstantinowitsch Tolstoy . Since 1940 he kept a diary in which he described his life systematically and in detail.

During the Romanian administration of Odessa from 1941 to 1944 in the German-Soviet War , Schwez continued his studies at the Conservatory, which was reopened in March 1942. Because of his good performance, the dean Kondratiev appointed him lecturer for music literature. From March 11, 1944 to March 13, 1945 he was drafted into the Red Army . With his translation of Henryk Opieński's book about Chopin with comments as a diploma thesis, Schwez graduated on September 23, 1946.

From March 1945 to 1979 Schwez was in the ten-year Stoljarsky Music School and taught almost every day . There he set up a music literature cabinet twice and used his own money to buy records with musical works for the students. At home he continued his diary and composed. In addition, he wrote musicological works, in particular on the work of Puccini , as well as a manual for the study of Russian music. His work was not accepted by the publishers due to a lack of scientific knowledge. He also translated from Polish , French and German works by contemporary authors on Beethoven , Henryk Wieniawski , Kopernikus , Kepler , Moses Mendelssohn , George Gordon Byron , Cervantes as well as works by Maurice Druon and André Maurois , literary works, science fiction and much more . When his mother died in 1963, he got into a crisis, especially since the city administration took his apartment away from him, so that he had to part with his library and could no longer work at home. It was only through the intervention of the KGB general Kuwarsin, whose daughter attended the Stolyarsky Music School, that he was given a one-room apartment, and the students helped with the move.

In 1979 Schwez had to retire. He lectured and deliberated in the medical workers' club. When his former student and long-time friend Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Smirnow gave him Kepler's book Harmonices mundi , he translated the music part. His analysis of this part led to a joint publication with Smirnov, which was deposited in the All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information .

Switzerland made his diaries available to Smirnov, who included them in his five-volume work entitled Requiem of the 20th Century on the Stalinist Purges in Odessa. At Smirnov's request, Schwez composed a requiem with a fragment of a poem by Anna Andreevna Akhmatova for three soloists, choir and piano as his last work , which he had rewritten twice on the recommendation of the conservatory professor Galina Anatolyevna Polivanova . The work was premiered in 1996 by the graduate of the Odessa Conservatory M. Goduljan in the Museum of Literature, with Smirnov performing some of Schwez's songs on the piano. Smirnov added this work to the epilogue of his five-volume work.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Smirnow: Швец Владимир Афанасьевич (accessed February 8, 2019).
2. ↑ ВСЕМИРНЫЙ КЛУБ ОДЕССИТОВ: Владимир Швец. Они оставили след в истории Одессы (accessed February 8, 2019).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Нина Матвиенко: Подвижник истины (accessed February 8, 2019).
4. ↑ гвардии красноармеец Швец Владимир Афанасьевич (accessed February 8, 2019).
5. ↑ Смирнов В.А .: Реквием ХХ века: в 5-ти ч. Ч. 1 . Астропринт, Odessa 2009 ( [1] accessed February 8, 2019).
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7. ↑ Смирнов В.А .: Реквием ХХ века: в 5-ти ч. Ч. 3 . 2nd Edition. Астропринт, Odessa 2016 ( [3] accessed February 8, 2019).
8. ↑ Смирнов В.А .: Реквием ХХ века: в 5-ти ч. Ч. 4 . 2nd Edition. Астропринт, Odessa 2017 ( [4] accessed February 8, 2019).
9. ↑ Смирнов В.А .: Реквием ХХ века: в 5-ти ч. Ч. 5 . Астропринт, Odessa 2011 ( [5] accessed February 8, 2019).
10. ↑ РЕКВИЕМ. Приложение к эпилогу: фрагменты поэмы А.Ахматовой для трех солистов, хора и фортепиано (accessed February 8, 2019).
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