Vladimir Nikolaevich Zybin

Vladimir Nikolaevich Zybin

Wladimir Nikolajewitsch Zybin ( Russian Владимир Николаевич Цыбин ; born July 23, 1877 in Ivanovo-Vosnesensk ; † May 29, 1949 in Moscow ) was a Russian flautist , conductor , composer and university teacher .

Life

Vladimir Zybin's father was a violinist and conductor of a small town orchestra . His mother had a good voice and played the guitar . The family moved to Moscow , and in 1886 the father died of tuberculosis . His mother sent the nine-year-old Vladimir to the military orchestra of the 12th Astrakhan Grenadier Regiment , where he learned the piccolo from 1896 to 1890 . He also sang in the choir and learned to read and write.

At the age of 12 Zybin was accepted by the Moscow Conservatory in the flute class of Wilhelm Kretschmann and studied there until 1895. Even during his studies he played in various private orchestras. In 1893 he began conducting. Since 1894 he led a Moscow lovers church choir . 1895-1896 he was a soloist in the orchestra of the Korsch Theater . In 1896 he won the Bolshoi Theater Piccolo Competition and became a member of the orchestra. At times he represented the aging flute soloist Ferdinand Büchner . The trombonist and music critic Iwan Lipajew considered Zybin comparable to the extraordinary French virtuoso Paul Taffanel . In 1898 he conducted the brass military orchestra in Yaroslavl .

Zybin played the Böhm flute. He has made guest appearances in Pavlovsk , Kiev , Baku , Rostov-on-Don , Kislowodsk , Sevastopol and Yalta and played under Bruno Walter , Richard Strauss , Sergei Kussewizki , Eduard Nápravník and Nikolai Golowanow .

In 1907 Zybin went to St. Petersburg and took part in the Mariinsky Theater competition to succeed the late flutist Ernesto Köhler . He got the position of soloist and stayed there until 1920. In 1909 he took part in the tour of the theater troupe to Paris . He performed at the Théâtre du Châtelet with Dyagilev's Ballets Russes . In 1910 he began a second degree at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and studied composition theory in the classes of Alexander Glasunow and Anatoly Lyadow and conducting in the class of Nikolai Tscherepnin together with Sergei Prokofiev , with whom he shared the graduation ceremony, until 1914 . He made his debut as a conductor at the Mariinsky Theater with La Bohème . After the death of the flautist Fyodor Stepanov in 1914 Zybin took over his position at the Leningrad Conservatory and led the flute class (from 1917 as a professor). In the summer of 1915 he was director of the Pavlovsky music station . In the summers of 1916 and 1917 he conducted the symphony in Saratov . 1918-1919 he was assistant to the main conductor of the ballet orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater Riccardo Drigo .

In 1920 he returned to his family in Moscow. Together with his wife Jelisaweta Timofejewna (1884–1975) he founded a children's music and art home for homeless children with his own funds in Pushkino , where he also lived, which later became the No. 1 children's music school . He designed an opera performance for his protégés and wrote a simple textbook on music theory. 1921–1929 he worked as a soloist at the Bolshoi Theater. After Wilhelm Kretschmann's death, Zybin directed his flute class at the Moscow Conservatory from 1923 (until his death). 1938–1948 he led the flute class at the Moscow Conservatory of Music. During the German-Soviet War he headed the chair for wind instruments . In 1946 he was named an Honored Artist of the RSFSR .

Zybin trained many well-known flautists, including Nikolai Platonov . He wrote the textbook Fundamentals of the Technique of Flute Playing (1940). The majority of his works were composed between 1921 and 1947. In particular, he created a ballet suite , an E major symphony (his diploma thesis in 1914), 3 concertos for flute and piano or orchestra, concertos for trumpet , clarinet , oboe , horn and harp , 10 etudes for flute and piano and romances for high voice and piano.

Zybin was buried in Moscow's Vedenskoye Cemetery. His younger brothers Pyotr and Alexander had also become professional musicians. The space designer Pavel Vladimirovich Zybin was his son. In 2007 the International Zybin Competition for Flutists was held in Moscow.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vladimir Nikolaevich Tsybin (accessed December 10, 2016).
2. ^ András Adorján, Lenz Meierott: Flute Lexicon . 2010, ISBN 978-3-89007-545-7 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} ДИНАСТИЯ ЦЫБИНЫХ (December 10, 2016).
4. ↑ И. В. Липаев: Оркестровые музыканты . St. Petersburg 1904.
5. ↑ Compositions by: Tsybin, Vladimir (accessed December 10, 2016).