Salmanov biography

Salmanov is an outstanding Soviet composer, author of many symphonic, choral, chamber instrumental and vocal works. His oratorio-poem "Twelve" according to A. Blok and the choir cycle "Swan", symphony and quartets became genuine conquests of Soviet music. Salmanov grew up in an intelligent family where music constantly sounded. His father, a metallurgist engineer by profession, was a good pianist and played at home the works of a wide range of composers: from I.

Bach to F. Liszt and F. Chopin, from M. Glinka to S. noting the ability of his son, his father began to introduce him from 6 years old to systematic classes of music, and the boy obeyed his father’s will not without resistance. Shortly before the arrival of the young, who gave great hopes for the musician the father died at the conservatory, and the seventeen -year -old Vadim went to work at the factory, and later took up hydrogeology.

But once, having visited the concert of E. Gilels, excited about what he heard, he decided to devote himself to music. Meeting with composer A. Gladkovsky strengthened this decision in him: in the city of Salmanov entered the Leningrad Conservatory in the class of compositions by M. Gnesin and instrumentation - M. Salmanov was brought up in the traditions of the glorious St.

Petersburg school that laid out a mark on his early works, but at the same time eagerly interested in modern music. From student works, 3 romance are distinguished at Art. And, Blok - the beloved poet Salmanov, a suite for a string orchestra and a small symphony, in which individual features of the composer style are already manifested. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Salmanov goes to the front.

His creative activity resumes at the end of the war. For a decade and a half, 3 strings of the quartet and 2 trio have been composed, the symphonic picture "Forest", the vocal and symphonic poem "Zoya", 2 symphonies, the symphonic suite "Poetic Pictures" according to the novels of the G. Andersen, the orama-poem "Twelve", the choral cycle "on the st. Hikmeta, several notebooks of romances, etc.

In the work of these years, the concept of the artist is clarified - highly ethical and optimistic basically. Its essence in the assertion of deep spiritual values ​​that help a person overcome painful searches and experiences. In parallel, individual features of style are determined and honed: there is a rejection of the traditional interpretation of the sonata allegro in the sonata-symphonic cycle and rethinking the cycle itself; The role of a polyphonic, liner-independent movement of votes in the development is intensified by the fact that the author leads the author to the organic implementation of serial technology, etc.

The Russian theme in the Borodino, epic in the plan of the first symphony, etc. The civil position is clearly manifested in the oratorio-poem "Twelve". Starting with G. Salmanov composes a number of works using serial technology. These are quartets from the third to the sixth, the third symphony, the sonata for the string orchestra and piano, etc. However, these works did not draw a sharp line in the creative evolution of Salmanov: he managed to use new techniques of composer technology, but organically included them in the system of means of his own musical language, subordinating them to the ideological and composite sections of his works.

Such, for example, is the third, dramatic symphony - the most complex symphonic work of the composer. From the middle of the x. More than ever, he works intensively and fruitfully, composing choirs, romances, chamber-instrumental music, the fourth symphony his individual style reaches the greatest integrity, generalizing the search for many previous years.

The "Russian theme" appears again, but in a different capacity. The composer turns to folk poetic texts and, starting from them, creates his own melodies, imbued with folk song. These are the choral concerts "Swan" and "Good well done" The fourth symphony was the result of the development of Salmanov's symphonic music; However, this is his new creative take -off.

In the three-part cycle, bright lyrical-philosophical images prevail.

In the middle of the x. Salmanov writes romances on the words of the talented Vologda poet N. are one of the last works of the composer, conveying a person’s desire to communicate with nature, and philosophical thoughts about life. Salmanov’s works show us a large, serious and sincere artist who accepts his heart and expresses various life conflicts in his music, invariably remaining a faithful high moral and ethical position.