Alexander Varlamov composer biography

Born in Moscow on November 15 on November 15 in a family of an official. At the age of nine, he was sent to St. Petersburg, where he studied music in the court singing chapel, was a singer choir, and later the author of a number of spiritual compositions. At the summer, he was sent to Holland as a teacher of singing Russian embassy church in the Hague.

He lived in St. Petersburg, where he taught at a theater school and served a chorist and teacher in the chapel for some time. During this period, he became close to M. Glinka, took part in the performance of his works, performed in public concerts as a conductor and singer. A successful composer debut in the play of A. Shakhovsky Roslavlev and work in theatrical genres contributed to Barlamov to get the places of assistant dropmaster, and then the “composer of music” under the orchestra of imperial Moscow theaters.

Varlamov wrote the music for the Shakespearean Hamlet by order of the famous actor P. Mochalov, set his ballets to the fun of the Sultan and a cunning boy and a cannibal in Moscow. In the early X, the first romances and songs of Varlamov appeared; In total, he created more than the works of this genre, and among them the red sundress that was fenced off, Zorenka Yasnaya, do not make noise, Buynaya winds were published in - Varlamov successfully acted as a singer, he taught a popular vocal teacher at a theater school, an educational house, gave private lessons, published his full school of singing; B - published the journal Eolov Arf, which included romances and piano works, his own and other authors.

After the musician lived in St. Petersburg, where he moved in the hope of getting a teacher in the court chapel, but for various reasons this plan was not realized. Was entered into St. Petersburg literary and art mugs; Two poems of this poet and criticism are devoted closely with A. Dargomyzhsky and A. Grigoryev Varlamov. The romances of Varlamov were performed in salons, the famous Polina Viardo sang them in her concerts - Varlamov died in St.

Petersburg on October 15, his memory, Gurilev’s romance was devoted to the memory of Varlamov, collective piano variations on his romance by a nightingale among the authors A. Rubinstein, A. Genzelt, as well as a musical collection in memory of A. Varlamova, who included, along with the works of the late composer, the romances of the most prominent Russian composers. In total, Varlamov created about two hundred romances and songs on the texts of more than 40 poets, a collection of processing of folk songs Russian singer, two ballets, music at least two dozen performances, most have been lost.