Pakhmutov biography

Not open ... From the listener mail of the composer Alexander Nikolaevna Pakhmutov, he was born on November 9 in the village of Beketovka now the Volgograd district. Since childhood, she was exceptional musical giftedness: for example, she could by ear to pick up a melody from the film what he saw on the piano. Perhaps the predisposition to music went to Alexander Nikolaevna from her father.

Nature endowed it with the soul of an artist, sensitive to the beauty of sounds and colors, to poems and songs ”[7]. He himself learned to draw, write with oil, photograph, play Domra, balalaika, piano. Father became the first teacher of his daughter. At the age of five, Ala composed her first play “The Roosters Sing”, and when she turned 7 years old, she entered two schools: in the general education in Beketovka and in musical in Stalingrad.

Three times a week by morning train, mother Maria Andreevna drove Alu to Stalingrad, to a music school. Years passed, Alya continued to study. And the next morning, a concert of the winners of the Olympics was scheduled in the city theater. Alya was one of the first and played her essay - a waltz. Suddenly, the concert was interrupted by a government radio message - war. The Pakhmutov family was evacuated to Karaganda.

Music classes had to be interrupted. Ala, along with other children, collects parcels to the front, and in the evenings with an accordion in her hands a blond girl sang their favorite songs for the wounded, sometimes performed her own works. Then she had not written songs yet. In the spring of the year, the Pakhmutovs returned from evacuation to Beketovka. Stalingrad lay all in ruins, destroyed, burned, seemed deserted and stranger ...

Alya continues her performances in hospitals. A rumor about a girl with extraordinary musical abilities soon spread throughout the city hospitals. They began to come for her, invite to concerts to pilots, infantrymen. Soon, Ala made friends with the pilots and asked them to take her to Moscow. And in the fall of the year, Father Ali is going on a business trip to Moscow. Alya leaves with him, there she submits documents to the Central Music School.

In the introductory exam plays its compositions - a waltz and a prelude. The selection committee of the Central Music School for gifted children at the Moscow Conservatory enrolled the girl immediately in the 6th grade and recorded in her decision: “Alexander Pakhmutova has an excellent hearing. It lags behind her peers in technical aslence, but should be credited due to excellent prospects ”[4].

This world -famous school has given a ticket to life to many outstanding masters of musical art, including Ale Pakhmutova. Studying at a music school, Pakhmutova performed her Skersino in the documentary film “Young Musicians”, created in the year. Having graduated from school in the year, she enters the Moscow State Conservatory class V. This is what Pakhmutov says about her teacher: “I was struck by a combination of high love for music and because of severity, exactingness and at the same time conquering warmth, sensitivity to young people, who did not know anything” [5].

In the year, Alexandra Nikolaevna graduated from the conservatory, and in the year - graduate school with her. Studying at the conservatory and in graduate school, Pakhmutova creates many interesting works - these are processing Russian folk songs, works for the symphony orchestra, and cantata for the children's choir. It turns out the first of its own song “Hastings-Cavalry” The song became the winner at the conservative song contest.

Years are coming. Pakhmutova works in different genres. The composer’s great creative plans are being carried out, new ones are born. Alexander Pakhmutov enters the new life of musical art. Pakhmutova songs carry a variety of colors. Pakhmutova herself speaks of her songs as follows: “The song, like a person, has his own life, fate, biography” [1]. But what Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin, by the way, says about her, he was one of the first to pay attention to her song: “Alexander Pakhmutov is a talented musician.

Her compositions are delighted with brightness, freshness, Russian national color ”[6]. She has a song cycle about the Komsomol: “I will not part with the Komsomol”, “Love, Komsomol and Spring” and other songs. In the year, A. Pakhmutov goes on a business trip on the youth construction sites of Siberia, as a result of which the song cycle of “Fixed History” is born: “Taiga Stars”, “Padun thresholds”, “Marchuk plays the guitar”.

Alexandra Nikolaevna creates many songs devoted to sports, the most famous of them: “Goodbye, Moscow”, which sounded at the closure of the Moscow Olympiad of the year. It was the year of creative discoveries of new music. This year, the movie is released: “Girls” Pakhmutova wrote music to him, from which the whole country sang songs. Abroad, not only the songs of Pakhmutova, but also her symphonic works are performed.

Oscar Feltzman says about Pakhmutova: “The master of the song is elegant, catchy, easily memorable and at the same time carrying a big idea” [4]. Pakhmutov in his song work collaborates with outstanding poets: L. Oshanin, M. Matusovsky, E. Dolmatovsky, R.Rozhdestvensky, R. But the most fruitful and constant is the creative union of A. Pakhmutova with the poet N. as a result of which beautiful songs about Russia, about the Motherland are born.

This is the "Rus'" N. Dobronravov, the "voice of the Motherland" Grebennikova and N. Her songs are performed by famous artists of the Soviet, Russian, foreign pop, as well as theater and film actors. And today, the famous songs of A. Pakhmutova, gentle and lyrical, most often written in a creative union with a spouse - poet N. is: “Belovezhskaya Pushcha”, “Melody”, “Nadezhda”, “We can’t live without each other”, “Hugging happiness”, “I can’t otherwise”, “Heroes of sports”, “You know how the guy we were,“ how young we were ”,“ The team of youth ”,“ The team of youth ” ours ".

Beautiful songs "Tenderness" Dobronravova, "Song of anxious youth" Oshanin, "Old Maple" Dobronravov entered the golden fund of the songs of our country. The active creative activity of A. Pakhmutova is successfully combined with the activity of the public. For many years, she has been the chairman of the All -Union Commission of Mass Musical Genres. For more than 20 years, starting from a year, headed the jury of the international song contest “Red Cloves”.

The social activities of A. Pakhmutova are not only work in the governing bodies of the Union of Composers and the Supreme Council, these are not registered by anyone, not counted hundreds, and maybe thousands of chef performances and meetings with workers, military, student and sports youth. The named after Pakhmutova is named after the year Asteroid Pakhmutova.

Alexander Pakhmutov lives and works in the city of Moscow. As the great Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky said: “Go ahead, to the new shores! Go ahead means on the road and in this path new songs - songs from life, new musical works and next meetings. So it turns out that she is so quiet and small to everyone heard and visible. Absolutely everyone! .. Literature 1.

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