Biography
Call signs from the Soviet film "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson" became one of the most recognizable and favorite melodies of domestic cinema. Author of the soundtrack to the tapes about the famous detective - Composer Vladimir Dashkevich. The musician works in the classic genre, on his Symphony and Opera account, but Mastener's popular fame brought together work in the cinema. The man wrote music to almost hundreds of paintings, among which the "dog's heart", "Winter Cherry" and "Azazel".Childhood and youth
The future composer was born in 1934 in Moscow in the family of Sergey Leonidovich Dashkevich and Anna Ilinichna Schneerson. The mother by nationality was a Jewish, and his father came from Russian nobles. Inspired by the ideas of the revolution, the man left the family and joined the Bolsheviks, becoming an instructor of enlightenment in the Moscow politico. When the boy turned 4 years old, the father was arrested on a false den, accusing in espionage, and were released only after 16 years.
The childhood of Vladimir Sergeyevich was held in a communal apartment on Kropotkin Street (now Prechistenka), in the house that previously belonged to Denis Davydov. The boy spent a lot of time at the grandmother Sarra Abramovna Rodnianskaya, who lived on Arbat. Mom earned the work of the typist, the family lived very modestly.
During the war, after numerous bombing, Dashkevich was evacuated to Izhevsk, where the boy studied at school for 2 years. Returning to Moscow in 1943, Volodya began to attend music school in the class of piano, but the teachers insisted that the pianist would not come out of it. Nevertheless, the child learned notes.
Vladimir remembers his childhood, first friends and school years. And the mark that the years of Stalinist repressions remained in the fate of the family. In 1945, the son with his mother went to his father to the settlement in Vorkuta, and the future composer did not know about the life of the camps. Dashkevich's house was periodically searched. But a man speaks gratefully about the main value, which remained from those years - these are letters of the father, of which he absorbed the beauty of his native language, a sense of involvement in world culture, an understanding of the true dignity of the human person.
In school years, love for music has come. In an interview, the Master recalls that tickets for the Girl's Gallery were worth a penny, and the boy went to listen to the opera 2-3 times a week. However, the decision to link lives with art did not come immediately. Former, the young man learned to the chemist engineer and went to work at the plant.
Music
A domestic event was the impetus for music: a household apartment was married to a communal apartment and to free the place in the room, Dashkevich gave her piano. Since then, the young man has been with an exercise to play 12 hours a day, remembering the notes learned in childhood. Already then, the young man began to compose music and record in music notebooks. The passion took so much time that the guy was almost excluded from the institute, but at the insistence he took the mind and graduated from the university. But at the same time began to visit the seminars of amateur composers.In 1959, Vladimir tried to enroll in a conservatory, but did not pass the test. Higher musical education man received at the correspondence department of the institute. Gnesinic, where his teacher was Aram Khachaturian. The composer faculty Dashkevich graduated with honors and, having received a diploma, left the factory to devote himself to his beloved business.
A graduate began to write symphonic works and in parallel to teach in Gnesinka, and in 1965 he comes to the first order from television. True, it was proposed to work on a "bear on the road" - a 10-minute cartoon for the smallest. At the same time, the composer is invited to cooperate in the theater. Since then, work on performances occupies an important place in the work of Vladimir Sergeevich, in his account participation in more than 80 productions for metropolitan and provincial theaters.
Often the author is taken for the musical interpretation of the Russian and world classics, working on the "Faust", "dead souls", "auditor". Two symphones of the masters rethink the classics of the silver century: the basis of the 4th Symphony lay down the "Requiem" Anna Akhmatova, and the fifth "save my speech" was built on the poetry of Osip Mandelstam. With a widow of the poet, a man was familiar personally, and writing music to his verses was a real creative challenge.
Discography Matra is impossible to imagine without soundtracks to films. The first work in the movie was to write music to the ribbon "Bumbaras" in 1971. Since then, the rapid melodies have become the constant labor of the composer. The children's picture of "Drop in the sea" was published in 1973, and the song of the authorship of Dashkevich moved from her to the screensaver of the program "Visiting a fairy tale", on which not one generation of Soviet children grew up.
Perhaps the most famous melodies of Vladimir Sergeyevich sound in the films of Igor Maslennikov, dedicated to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Famous call signs glorified the composer and put it in a number of the most sought-after filmmaster meloders. In the career of men almost a hundred film, among which "Voroshilovsky shooter", "Thief", "Afghan break" and others.
Personal life
In the personal life of Vladimir Sergeevich, there is a single beloved woman - Olga Semenovna's spouse, in the Maiden Schigolev. The composer was led by the "Analysis of Music Works", and the future wife was a student. They got married on January 20, 1966 and since then did not part. A woman is a professional violinist and taught for many years to the school and Institute. Gnesinic.
Olga's daughter did not go to the footsteps of the parents and chose her way. While still a schoolgirl, the girl got a clinic registry to work out a medical experience, and then entered the first medical university of Moscow. He continued to education in graduate school at the pediatric department. Today she is a doctor and doctor of medical sciences, she has four children. The older granddaughter of Alexander works at work, and the grandson Andrei is studying on agronoma, younger Anna and Olga, due to age, do not think about the professional path.
Vladimir Dashkevich now
Despite the solid age, Vladimir Sergeevich and now continues to write. A man works on symphony and chamber works and still composes music to movies. In 2018, the composer became the winner of the film "Nika" for the soundtrack to the tape of Yuri Grymov "Three sisters".On January 20, 2019, Dashkevich celebrated the 85th anniversary, with which he officially congratulated the head of the Russian government Dmitry Medvedev.
Mother has a personal site where the news section is rarely updated. But here you can read the biography of the composer, watch married photos, download his books.
Music to films
- 1971 - "Bumbaras"
- 1973 - "Drop in the sea"
- 1978 - "Yaroslavna, Queen of France"
- 1979 - "Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson"
- 1981 - "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Baskerville Dog"
- 1985 - "Winter Cherry"
- 1986 - "Plumbum, or a dangerous game"
- 1988 - "Dog Heart"
- 1991 - "Afghan Flee"
- 1997 - "Thief"
- 1999 - "Voroshilovsky shooter"
- 2002 - "Azazel"
- 2017 - "Three sisters"