Valery Gavrilin


Valery Aleksandrovich Gavrilin was a Soviet and Russian composer. People's Artist of the RSFSR.

Biography

Valery Gavrilin was born in 1939 in Vologda. When he was 3, his father died as a volunteer during the Siege of Leningrad. His mother was imprisoned when he was 10 and Gavrilin was sent to an orphanage in the village of Kovyrino near Vologda. At the age of 11, Gavrilin entered a school of music where I.M. Belozemtsev, a teacher at Leningrad Conservatory, happened to hear him and from the age of 12 to 16, Gavrilin went to the children's school in Leningrad to study clarinet, piano and composition. In 1954 he graduated from the Conservatory with two specialities: composition and musicology. Shortly thereafter, Gavrilin published the vocal cycle that would make his name, the Russian Notebook. He continued at the Conservatory as a teacher.
In television and film, he often collaborated with director Aleksandr Arkadevich Belinskiy.
Valery Gavrilin died in 1999 at the age of 59 in St. Petersburg, following two severe heart attacks. The asteroid 7369 Gavrilin was named in his memory. The name was suggested by the Union of Concert Workers of Russia, and the official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 24 January 2000.
The 70th Anniversary of Gavrilin's birth was marked by a Gavrilin Festival in October 2009, which included concerts in his memory in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Vologda, and Cherepovets, and which included a performance by the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev.

Works

Ballets

Anyuta, ballet in 2 acts, libretto by film director Aleksandr Belinskiy based on texts by Anton Chekhov House on the Road, ballet in 1 act, libretto by Aleksandr Belinskiy based on texts by the poem by Aleksandr Tvardovsky Lieutenant Romashov, based on texts by Aleksandr Kuprin Balzamin's Marriage, based on texts by Alexander Ostrovsky

Opera

The Sailor and the Rowan Tree Family Album
  • ''Miracle Play of the Three Youths''

Orchestral music

The Cockroach, symphonic suite
  • Overture in C major for symphony orchestra
  • Adagio for Strings Wedding, Symphonic Suite No. 1 Theatre Divertissment, Symphonic Suite No. 2 Russian, Symphonic Suite No. 3 French, Symphonic Suite No. 4 Portraits, Symphonic Suite No. 5 )In Memory of Batiushkov, waltz for symphony orchestra Anyuta, Symphonic Suite No. 6 House on the Road, Symphonic Suite No. 7

Chamber-vocal music

About Love, song cycle based on texts by Vadim Shefner Satires, song cycle based on texts by Arvīds Grigulis German Notebook No. 1, song cycle based on texts by Heinrich Heine Russian Notebook, song cycle based on folk texts The Seasons, song cycle based on folk texts and Sergei Yesenin Drunken Week, song cycle based on folk texts German Notebook No. 2, song cycle based on texts by Heinrich Heine Evening, song cycle for 2 voices and piano. Part 1 "Little Album", texts: folk, Albina Shulgina, and Gavrilin. Part 2 "Dances, Writing, Conclusion", texts: Semen Nadson, Ivan Bunin, Anna Akhmatova, Albina Shulgina, and Gavrilin German Notebook No. 3, song cycle for vocal quartet and piano based on texts by Heinrich Heine Marina, based on texts by Marina Tsvetaeva Three Songs of Ophelia, based on Shakespeare for a production of Hamlet at the Young People's Theatre of Leningrad directed by Zinovy Korogodsky
  • "The City Sleeps", based on a text by Albina Shulgina
  • "Forgive Me", based on a text by Alexander Volodin Poem No. 426 for soloist, instrumental ensemble, 328-RS computer, and tape.

Vocal-symphonic music

Buffoons, for soloist, male chorus, ballet and orchestra; based on texts by Vadim Korostilev War Letters, vocal-symphonic poem for soloists, children's and mixed choirs, and symphony orchestra; based on texts by Albina Shulgina Earth, vocal-symphonic song cycle for the free composition of the choir, soloist and symphony orchestra; based on texts by Albina Shulgina A Toast "Apotheosis", cantata for mixed chorus and orchestra, based on texts by Vladimir Maksimov Incantation, cantata for female choir and orchestra; based on texts by Albina Shulgina Wedding, for soloist, mixed chorus, ballet dancers, and symphony orchestra. Texts: folk, Albina Shulgina, and Gavrilin Chimes (Upon Reading Vasily Shukshin), a miracle play symphony for soloists, mixed chorus, oboe, percussion, and narrator; texts: folk, Albina Shulgina, and Gavrilin Shepherd and Shepherdess, for soloists, large chorus, and mixed instrumental ensemble; based on texts by Viktor Astafyev

Choral music

People of the World, based on texts by Sergei Vasiliev We Spoke of Art, cantata for mixed chorus a cappella based on texts by Gavrilin In Memory of the Fallen, a choral cycle Don Captain, concert rondo for mixed chorus, based on texts by R. Barannikova Choruses, for mixed chorus, folk lyrics

Instrumental chamber works

  • String Quartets Nos. 1 – 3 Adagio in Polyphonic Style A Poem, for violin and piano
  • Violin Sonata
  • Piano Sonata Compositions, for piano 2-hands Sketches, for piano 4 hands

Theatre music

How Kopachi Got Married, musical comedy in 1 Act of the play by L Tabi..
36 suites of Incidental Theatre music:
"How Kopachi got married Kopaci" «Так женился Копачи»,
"marching march", «Походный марш»
"Armored Train 14-69" «Бронепоезд 14-69»
"based on texts by the execution request" «После казни прошу»
"based on texts by 100 years in the Birch grove" «Через 100 лет в Березовой роще»
"Two winters and three summers," «Две зимы и три лета»
"Crime and Punishment " «Преступлени и наказание»
"Not to part with his beloved" «С любимыми не расставайтесь»
"Steps of the Commander" «Шаги командора»
"His people - numbered" «Свои люди — сочтемся»
"Above the bright water" «Над светлой водой»
"Three sacks of wheat" «Три мешка сорной пшеницы»
"Prunus" «Черемуха»
and others

Film music

  • 1966 - On the wild shore
  • 1968 - Source
  • 1968 - On the wedding day
  • 1970 - Vasily Merkur'ev
  • 1969 - Anna's Happiness
  • 1971 - The month of August
  • 1972 - Theatrical History
  • 1979 - The Knight of Knyazh
  • 1980 - Pier
  • 1981 - A Village History
  • 1982 - Anyuta
  • 1986 - Hurt
  • 1987 - Funny story
  • 1989 - Balzamin's Marriage
  • 1993 - Provincial benefice

Selected recordings

  • A House on the Road. With Sviridov, Oratorio Pathetique. Vladimir Fedoseyev. reissued Relief.
  • Songs of Valery Gavrilin: The Russian Notebook. Ophelia’s Songs. The Seasons. Mila Shkirtil. Yuri Serov. Northern Flowers, NF/PMA 9955
  • Gavrilin First German Notebook. Sergei Leiferkus. Irina Golovnyova. Recorded in 1981. Sound-producer Gerhard Tses. Released with recordings of songs by Vladimir Shcherbachov, Veniamin Basner, Yuri Falik. Compozitor, St. Petersburg.
  • Gavrilin Sketches for piano 4 hands. Riga Piano duo Nora Novik & Raffi Kharajanyan. Compozitor, St. Petersburg,2000.
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