Alyabyev is a brief biography

He founded musical Pushkinian, Russian chamber instrumental music, becoming a harbinger of many achievements of the Russian composer school. Among the most famous works of Alyabyev, which are very popular to this day, “Nightingale”, “evening ringing” and “Winter Road”. Alexander Alexandrovich Alyabyev was born on August 4 in Tobolsk, in the Governor's family, so he was able to get an excellent education.

From early childhood, the future composer took music lessons. According to a number of sources, the famous Irish composer and pianist-virtuoso John Field taught him the game of the piano. Alexander dedicated his first musical composition to him - the piano "big polonaise." In the year in St. Petersburg, Alyabyev began the service of Unter-Sheltmeister of the 3rd grade in the Berg-College, two years later he becomes a 14th grade cinemaister in Moscow.

In the year, Alyabyev published his first musical works. The future composer took part in the Patriotic War of the year, as well as the foreign campaigns of the Russian army in the years, including the capture of Dresden, which was organized by a partisan and famous poet of that time Denis Davydov. Alyabyev ended the war with the rank of captain, having two orders of St.

Anna of the 3rd degree, Order of St. Vladimir 4th degree and a medal in memory of the war of the year. Continuing military service in St. Petersburg, in the year the composer created the hussar song “Another Day”. Seven years later, Alyabyev resigned as a lieutenant colonel, after which he lived in St. Petersburg and Moscow, where he became friends with the writer Mikhail Zagoskin and composer Alexei Vernovsky.

At the beginning of Alexander Alyabyev, he was arrested on suspicion of killing his partner in the game of cards. Although the prosecution was not fully proved, the composer was deprived of all rights and the noble rank, sentencing to the exile in Siberia. Among historians, there is an opinion that in reality such a harsh sentence was passed to Alyabyev because of the proximity to Decembrist circles.

In particular, it is known that Nicholas I has repeatedly rejected the petition to mitigate the composer's fate. In, having served a three -year imprisonment in the fortress, Alexander Alyabyev goes to his native Tobolsk, where he creates a symphony orchestra of Cossack music. In addition, the composer acted as a pianist and conductor, led symphonic and choral concerts.

In those years, Alyabyev created romances published in the collection "Northern Singer" and works for the orchestra. In the period - years, Alyabyev lived in the Caucasus, then in Orenburg, after which he left for the Moscow province. Taking great interest in folklore, the composer recorded the Bashkir, Kyrgyz, Tatar and Turkmen songs, as well as the work of the Caucasian peoples.

Together with historian Mikhail Maksimovich, he compiled and published a collection of “Voices of Ukrainian Songs”, published in the year. Only in the year the composer was finally allowed to settle in Moscow, where he, however, was under police supervision. Alexander Alexandrovich Alyabyev died in Moscow on February 22 on March 6. The composer was buried in the Simon monastery.

In the years, the necropolis, where the tomb of the Alyabyevs was located, was destroyed. In February, on the symbolic grave of the musician at the walls of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Old Simonov, a solemn ceremony of the opening of the memorable cross was held. Persons of the day of March 17: - Eduard Limonov Soviet and Russian writer, publicist, politician.