Family Pakhmutova biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. In the photo: Alexandra Pakhmutov, every person, remembering this smiling, lively woman, associates her songs with some period of her own past or present. Sincere and honest, touching and powerful - they have long become the daily history of the country. Alexander’s childhood and youth was born in the fall of the year in the family of Nikolai and Maria Pakhmutov from the village of Beketovka near Stalingrad.

Then it was the lower Volga region, whose inhabitants still well remembered the horrors of the civil war. Mom, Maria Ampleevna Malina in the first marriage of Kuvshinnikov, lost her husband and remained a widow in the incomplete twenty years, with two children in her arms - Zoe and Misha. She independently learned the hairdresser to feed the children. In the year, she met the father of Alexandra, Nikolai Andrianovich, married him.

Two more daughters appeared in the family - Luda and Alya. Alexander Pakhmutov in childhood Nikolai Pakhmutov was a remarkable person. His father died in the civil war - Andrian Vissarionovich was an assistant to the commander of the Krasnoarmeysky regiment, and he was chopped by the White Cossacks in Nikolai at the factory, then he got a job at the power station, at the same time managed to paint, played Dome and Balalaka.

Parents of Alexandra Pakhmutova in his youth later, moving to party work, in a local club he created an orchestra, gave musical accompaniment to silent films in the cinema. By some miracle, the piano got a miracle and the works of Chopin, Tchaikovsky, ancient romances always sounded in the house. Alexandra’s father played in the orchestra in this music and small ala grew.

When the baby was three years old, her father found her behind the instrument. With naughty fingers, the daughter selected a melody on the keys. Nikolai Andrianovich began to teach the girl everything that he knew how. At the age of three, Pakhmutov created the first musical work, which he and dad called "roosters sing." At the family council, parents decided that the daughter needed to seriously teach music and mother began to take her to the music school of Stalingrad three times a week.

Much later, Alexandra Nikolaevna said: “Thanks to my mother, my study, my fate became the most important in the family, in which there were three more older children Mikhail, Zoya, Lyudmila. Now I understand the internal state of my parents. They were afraid that I would not be able to get real musical education and my life would turn out like a father who could become both a pianist and a painter, he had all the data for this, but he remained an amateur musician and an artist.

” Sasha was eight years old when she, together with her dad, performed the first part of the Sol-Minor of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the evening of the memory of Vladimir Lenin. A crowded Beketovka club applauded their performance for a long time and from the heart. In the spring of the year, Pakhmutova graduated from the fourth grade of the music school and received a ticket to the boarding school at the Leningrad Conservatory.

But the war began. I had to forget about Leningrad, the family went into evacuation. For a month, Maria Amplievna and her children got to Karaganda. Then they lived in Temir-Tau barracks on the banks of the Nura River. Alya was left without piano, but there was an accordion that she mastered very quickly. In the year, when the family returned home, devastation reigned everywhere.

Many people huddled in dugouts. The girl began to perform in the hospitals in front of the wounded, performing songs and accompanying herself on the accordion. Then she first composed music to Joseph Utkin’s poems “If you are wounded, dear, in war”. In school years, Alexander Pakhmutov really wanted to study further, and when his father was discharged a business trip to Moscow, he took a daughter with him to show her at the Central Music School for Gifted Children.

The girl was listened to by Ekaterina Mamoli and Theodor Gutman, who determined Pakhmutov in the sixth grade of a music school at the Moscow Conservatory. Dad took Sasha to a small Bronnaya, where the Spitsins family lived in a communal apartment, his childhood friends. They settled the girl at home, promising to take care of her. The People's Commissar of Electric power industry allocated to the daughter of one of the best employees a pass to the departmental dining room, as well as coupons for receiving a suit and winter coat.

Also, Alexander received a working food card of an increased category, like all students of the Central Music School. Pakhmutova went to classes in a dark, on foot, to have time to do homework in music before the lessons. In the year, the documentary “Young Musicians” was shot about Alexander and her classmates, and then an article with a photograph about a young talented pianist was published in the Moscow Komsomolets.

Young Alya Pakhmutov on the piano Pakhmutov school graduated with honors in the year and entered the conservatory for the theoretical and composer faculty for the teacher Vissarion Shebalin. Here she established herself as a diverse author: she wrote “Russian suite”, a cantata for verses by Alexander Twardowski “Vasily Terkin”, “a concert for a pipe with an orchestra”, “camping cavalry” for verses by Julia Drunina.Pakhmutov graduated from the graduate school in the year with the dissertation "The score of the opera M.

Glinka" Ruslan and Lyudmila ". But she did not remain in the genre exclusively classical music, explaining his desire to write songs like this: “... in the country such a time has begun! Bright time! This is the exposure of the cult of Stalin, the “thaw”, the flight into space, the Siberian construction projects are wonderful, unprecedented rise! A huge interest in the song was found, like a genre.

In addition ... you can write a very good quartet, it may be praised in the small hall of the conservatory. And all. And if the success of the song, then the success is noisy, throughout the country! In addition to her, Alexandra wrote four more songs to Lev Oshanin’s poems and music for this picture. Alexander Pakhmutov in his youth was the famous “Girls” and the song “Old Maple” to the verses of Mikhail Matusovsky, who soon became truly popular.

The composer vividly responded to everything that was happening in the country. Alexander Pakhmutov, during a visit to the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station, In the camp "Eaglet", Alexander seemed to conduct musical journalism, celebrating with new songs all the important events taking place in the USSR. She wrote about representatives of different professions - builders, geologists, astronauts, athletes.

But her compositions were not stamps, they excited and took people by their piercing lyricism and accuracy for the soul of people. In memory of her friend, Yuri Gagarina Alexandra Nikolaevna created the Constellation Gagarin cycle of five compositions, both bravura and lyrical, and the song “Orlates learn to fly into space” appeared into space. With Yuri Gagarin, in the film of Tatyana Liosnova “Three Poppols on Plushchiya”, her song “Tenderness” was used, written for the cycle “Hugging sky”, the first performer of which was Maya Kristalinskaya.

And the famous “Hope” was first sang the legendary Anna German. The composer at work sounded especially penetratively performed by Magomaev’s “Melody”, which he sang during separation from his beloved wife Tamara Sinyavskaya, who was trained at that time at the Italian La Scala Theater. The songs of Alexandra Pakhmutova solemnly and invitingly sounded the music of Pakhmutova in the official Olympic film “On Sports, you are peace!

With the players of the Kyiv Dynamo, the work of Alexandra Nikolaevna is multifaceted and vast, from classical works to sports hymns and children's songs. She easily wrote the overtures “Youth”, “Russian Holiday”, the symphonic poems “Trick Bird”, a concert for the Ave Vita bells and the orchestra, the music for the performances “Great Housers”, “Nina”, “Magic Orange”. During a visit to Belarus, the farewell song of the Olympiad “Goodbye, Moscow!

Hockey players also adore Pakhmutov, about whom she wrote the songs “Trush does not play hockey” and “The team of our youth”. About forty of four hundred songs she wrote, one of which, “hugging the sky”, especially roads to the composer. Others called her a mouthpiece of the era and considered her music simple. This was objected by the pianist and conductor Mikhail Pletnev: “Pakhmutova’s music - ...

simple?

But Schubert is simple, a simple grig. Not every author of the symphony can write a song. The composer's task is to catch the physiognomy of time. Nobody did it brighter and better than her. And how much behind the external simplicity of internal composer culture! For me, Pakhmutov is no less, if no more interesting than, for example, the Beatles: fantasy, more perfect form.

” The songs of Alexandra Nikolaevna were included in the repertoire of so many performers. Of the young performers, at one time with the songs of Pakhmutova, Julian performed. The song "Russian Waltz" was especially remembered to the listeners. Her compositions were included in their concerts and Western performers, including Thomas Anders, the Kreis group from East Germany, the Living Sound Sound team from Britain.

A visit to his native bakers for the year of Pakhmutov collaborated with many famous poets - Rasul Gamzatov, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Andrei Voznesensky, but her cooperation with the poet and husband Nikolai Dobronravov was the most fruitful. Alexander Pakhmutov, Robert Rozhdestvensky and Nikolai Dobronravov on the right of the fall of the year, the composer was honored at the Bolshoi Theater in connection with the summer anniversary.

As always, Alexandra Nikolaevna accompanied the spoke - Tamara Gverdtsiteli, Lev Leshchenko, Alexander Gradsky and many other artists who came to her creative evening. Russian President Vladimir Putin, congratulating Pakhmutov on his birthday, handed the anniversary the highest award of the Russian Federation - the Order of Andrei the First -Called, who headed a long list of bonuses and awards received by the composer during creative activities.Alexandra Pakhmutov and Vladimir Putin at the anniversary evening in the year, a creative tandem presented to the audience a new song “Kursk Duga”, painted by them for the military painting “Strong armor”.

The composition was performed by Sergei Volchkov, accompanied by the choir of the Sretensky monastery and the symphony orchestra, led by Sergey Skripka. The personal life of Alexandra Pakhmutova in the year of Alexander Nikolaevna married the only man in her life - the poet Nikolai Dobronravov. They met on the All -Union Radio, where the poet read poetry for a children's program.

The head of the musical edition of Ida Gorenstein invited them to compose for children who began the summer holidays, a good song. And the “Motor Boat” was born, about which the couple jokingly said that on it they went together to swim in life. They got married in August of the same year. Alexander Pakhmutov and Nikolai Dobronravov in his youth, when they drove up to the registry office, rain poured, although before that there was severe heat.

The omen was considered happy for further life. Sasha was a pink suit in a sewn mother and sister. Having signed, they played a modest wedding and went on a wedding trip to Abkhazia, and returning to Moscow, set to work. Their family and creative tandem was an example of inspiration, even in songs about Komsomol and Lenin it was about universal values: dreams, love, joy.