Vladimir Fyodorovich Vavilov

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Wladimir Fjodorowitsch Wawilow ( Russian Влади́мир Фёдорович Вави́лов , international Vladimir Vavilov; born May 5, 1925 in Leningrad ; † March 11, 1973 ) was a Soviet guitarist , lutenist and composer .

Life

Vavilov was born in Leningrad to a working class family. He taught himself to play the guitar and later attended evening classes with the guitarist Peter Isakow and the composer and pianist Johann Admoni at the Rimsky-Korsakow Music School in Leningrad. He earned his living as a mechanic.

In 1949 he founded the duo Andronow-Wawilow with Lev Andronow , Andronow played a 6-course lute, Wawilow a 7-string instrument. They succeeded and were hired by the Leningrad state company Lengosestrada and later by the concert bureau of the Leningrad Philharmonic Society. Successful participation in the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1957 made the duo, which won a silver medal in the musical competition, well-known outside the Leningrad concert halls. TV appearances and nationwide engagements followed. In 1962 the community broke up and Wawilow concentrated on his solo career.

As a soloist, Wawilow has given concerts throughout the Soviet Union with his 7-course lute and has often performed with the singer Klawdija Schulschenko and the bassist Boris Schtokolow . He expanded his solo appearances into lecture concerts, spoke about the history of the guitar, Russian guitarists and their compositions. His extensive repertoire ranged from baroque to contemporary Russian music. At the end of the 1960s, the concert series for early music initiated by Wawilow, in which various musicians took part, drew great public interest. A record followed. In addition, he wrote the textbook Introduction to guitar playing with seven strings ( Начальный курс игры на семиструнной гитаре ), which was published in 1988 by the Moscow publisher Muzika.

Wawilow died of illness on March 11, 1973. He was buried in the Pavlovsk cemetery , a suburb of Saint Petersburg.

Sound carriers and compositions

The Soviet label Melodija published in 1970 under the title Lute Music from the 16th-17th centuries ( Владимир Вавилов - Лютневая Музыка XVI-XVII Веков ) 11 solo and duet recordings by Vawilows. The pieces are assigned to baroque composers or to anonymous authorship. It is suspected, supported by musical witnesses, that contrary to the information on the cover, mainly Wawilow's own compositions can be heard. In musicological terms, there are doubts about the authorship of the baroque composers mentioned for some pieces. A final evaluation or assignment has not been made.
The Ave Maria der Einspielung, a composition for lute, organ and voice, was referred to as an anonymous composition on the album cover in 1980. A later publication from 1995 assigned the authorship to Giulio Caccini . The work has been performed worldwide in the form of transcriptions for various instruments since the 1980s and is very popular in concerts - especially in the opera world. The composition Ricercare by Niccolo Nigrino has found its way into concert halls thanks to Vawilov's recording. The first piece on the album, Francesco Canova da Milano's Suite for Lute: Kanzone and Dance , was set to music by the Russian poet Anri Wolochonski and the avant-garde artist Alexei Chwostenko. Boris Grebenschtschikows created the song Город золотой ( The Golden City ) for his rock band Aquarium . The Golden City became the band's most popular piece and achieved cult status as the soundtrack for the film Assa .

Furthermore, an unpublished sound carrier recording by the Andronow-Wawilow duo in need of restoration is known. The recording includes compositions by Wladimir Wawilow, Wladimir Morkow, Edvard Grieg , Anton Rubinstein , Georges Bizet , Mihály Erdélyi, Francisco Tárrega and others.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mikhail Telechov: "Ave Maria" была написана в СССР? Вечерний Петербург (Petersburger Abendblatt), October 12, 2015, accessed on July 19, 2019 (Russian).
  2. ↑ a b Sergei Sevostyanov: Страницы жизни Владимира Федоровича Вавилова. In: magazines.gorky.media. Нева (literary magazine), September 2005, accessed July 19, 2019 (Russian).
  3. ↑ Aleksandr Sadikow: Возвращаем забытые имена. In: gorod-pushkin.info. Tsarskoye Selo Newspaper, November 10, 2011, accessed on July 19, 2019 (Russian).
  4. ↑ Владимир Вавилов * - Лютневая Музыка XVI-XVII Веков. Discogs , accessed July 19, 2019 (Russian).
  5. ↑ Lute Music Of The 16th - 17th Centuries. Discogs , accessed July 20, 2019 (Russian).
  6. ↑ Eugenia Sokolskaya: Boris Grebenshikov, a Founding Father of Soviet Rock. Russian Life, November 27, 2013, accessed July 20, 2019 .
  7. ^ Died the author of the song “City of gold” the poet Anri Volokhonsky. UkropNews24, April 8, 2017, accessed on July 20, 2019 .
  8. ^ Tatiana Egorova: Soviet Film Music (Contemporary Music Studies). Routledge , Abingdon-on-Thames 1997, ISBN 978-3-7186-5911-1 , limited preview in Google Book Search, (English)
personal data
SURNAME Wawilow, Vladimir Fyodorovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Вави́лов, Влади́мир Фёдорович; Vavilov, Vladimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet guitarist, lutenist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1973