Presentation Biography Shostakovich

After 10 years, his operas and ballets went in leading theaters of the world. The first symphony Dmitry Shostakovich was born in St. Petersburg in the year. His father worked as an engineer and passionately loved music, his mother was a pianist. She gave her son the first lessons of the game on the piano. At the age of 11, Dmitry Shostakovich began to study in a private music school.

Teachers noted his performing talent, excellent memory and absolute hearing. At 13, the young pianist had already entered the Petrograd Conservatory in the piano class, and two years later - to the faculty of composition. Shostakovich worked at the cinema tapeir. During the sessions, he experimented with the pace of compositions, selected leading melodies for the characters, built musical episodes.

He later used the best of these fragments in his works.

Since the year, Shostakovich worked on the first symphony. The work became his thesis, the premiere was held in the year in Leningrad. Later, the composer recalled: “The symphony was very successful yesterday. The execution was excellent. The success is huge. I went out to bow five times. Everything sounded great. " Soon, the first symphony became known outside the Soviet Union.

One of the members of the jury of the competition, the conductor and composer Bruno Walter, asked Shostakovich to send the score of the symphony to him to Berlin. It was performed in Germany and the USA. A year after the premiere, the first symphony of Shostakovich was played by orchestras around the world. Those who took his first symphony for young people carefree, cheerful were mistaken.

There was no country in which the symphony would not sound soon after it appeared. She was put under the name "Katerina Izmailova", the premiere was held in the year. Over the first two seasons, the opera was performed in Moscow and St. Petersburg more than times, and also played in the theaters of Europe and North America. In the year, the opera Katerina Izmailova was watched by Joseph Stalin.

In Pravda, the article “Plabur instead of music” was published, the opera was declared “anti -people”. Soon, most of his compositions disappeared from the repertoires of orchestras and theaters. Stalin called her “a business creative response of the Soviet artist to fair criticism,” and criticism - “a model of socialist realism” in symphonic music. In the first months of the war, Dmitry Shostakovich was in Leningrad.

He worked as a professor at the conservatory, served in a voluntary fire brigade - he extinguished incendiary bombs on the roof of the conservatory. During duty, Shostakovich wrote one of his most famous symphonies - Leningrad. The author finished it in evacuation in Kuibyshev at the end of December. I don’t know how the fate of this thing will turn out. Destroying critics will probably reproach me for imitating Ravel Boorro.

Let them reproach, and I hear the war. A few days later the composition was played in the column hall of the Moscow House of Unions. In August, the seventh symphony sounded in blockade Leningrad. To play the composition written for the dual composition of the orchestra, the musicians were responded from the front. The concert lasted 80 minutes, the music was broadcast from the hall of the Philharmonic on the radio - it was listened to in apartments, on the streets, at the front.

When the orchestra went to the stage, the whole hall stood up ... There was only a symphony in the program. It is difficult to convey the atmosphere that prevailed in the crowded hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic. People in military uniform prevailed in the hall. Many fighters and officers came to the concert right from the advanced ones. Karl Eliasberg, conductor of the Big Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad Radio Committee, Leningrad Symphony, became known to the whole world.

In New York, the Time magazine with Shostakovich on the cover was released. In the portrait, the composer was in the fire helmet, the signature read: “Firefighter Shostakovich. Among the breaks of bombs in Leningrad he heard the chords of victory. ” In the years, the Leningrad Symphony played more than 60 times in different concert halls of the United States. Last Sunday, your symphony was first sounded throughout America.

The American poet Karl Sandberg, an excerpt from the preface to the poetic message of Shostakovich “The era of Shostakovich” in the year of Dmitry Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev and Aram Khachaturian were accused of “formalism”, “bourgeois decadence” and “reptiles in front of the West”. In the year, having come to the conservatory, we saw an order on the board of ads: “Shostakovich D.

Mstislav Rostropovich was officially lifted a year later, the composer was sent to the United States as part of a group of cultural figures of the Soviet Union. He was inspired by the work of the German composer: “Bach’s musical genius is especially close to me. It is impossible to pass by him indifferently ... Every day I play one of his works. This is my urgent need, and constant contact with Bach's music gives me extremely a lot.

” After returning to Moscow, Shostakovich began to write a new music cycle - 24 preludes and fugues. In the middle of the x, the writings of Dmitry Shostakovich of the 10ths returned to the Soviet orchestras and theaters, including the opera Katerina Izmailova. In them, Shostakovich sometimes used musical quotes from his early scores and melodies of other composers.In addition to ballets, operas and symphonic works, Dmitry Shostakovich created music for films - “ordinary people”, “young guards”, “Hamlet”, and cartoons - “Duke Dances” and “The Tale of a Stupid Mouse”.

Speaking about Shostakovich’s music, I wanted to say that she cannot be called music for the movie. It can be connected with something. This can be the inner world of the author, which speaks of something that is inspired by some phenomena of life or art. Director Grigory Kozintsev.