Biography
Alexandra Pakhmutova is the legend of Soviet and Russian composer art. It is considered one of the most sought-after representatives of this sphere. The musical biography of Pakhmutov has over 400 copyright compositions, as well as a considerable number of works for the symphony orchestra.Childhood and youth
Alexandra Pakhmutova, whose biography originated in 1929, was born in a small village of Beketovka, located next to Stalingrad. By nationality, she is Russian. To date, such a settlement no longer exists, and Native Street Alexandra Nikolaevna is part of the city of Volgograd and is called Omsk.
Father Nikolai Andrianovich worked at the power plant, but in his spare time he played the piano in cinemas during a demonstration of silent films. The man was a creative man. He was engaged in carpentry, repairing cameras and assembling semiconductor devices, wrote pictures, owned the technique of playing a balalaica, violin and harp.
Pashmutte parents early noticed that their daughter is distinguished by exceptional musical giftedness. With their approval, the girl at 3 years old began to learn the game on the piano, and after a few months the first attempts were made to write their own melodies.
At the age of five, the little Pakhmutova wrote the first full-fledged play for the piano called "Roosters sing", and the girl went to the music school only after 2 years. As a child, Alexander has improved the game on keyboard tools in the native village. Then, with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, she continued to develop as a pianist in Karaganda. In Kazakhstan, her family has been in evacuation.
As soon as the Theater of Military Action went abroad, Alexander himself went to Moscow and entered Central Music School at the Moscow State Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky. There, the girl studied in a specialized piano class, and also visited the circle of young composers, who organized Vissarion Schebalin and Nikolai Peyko.
This famous school of gifted children, as she was then called, gave a ticket to many musicians and composers who later became world famous. She graduated from her and Alexander Nikolaevna Pakhmutov, and then turned out to be a student of the composer faculty of the Moscow State Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky.
A future-star diploma received a future star in 1953, but for another 3 years she studied in graduate school, defending his thesis on the topic "Opera Opera" Ruslan and Lyudmila "M. I. Glinka." Classmates celebrated the persistent, the hard character of the girl, which is characteristic of representatives of her sign of the zodiac - Scorpio.
Personal life
Nikolay Dobronravov and Alexander Pakhmutov created not only the creative union, but also a family. To date, the composer and poet are married for more than 60 years. Future spouses got acquainted in the youth, in 1956.Then Dobronravov worked on the All-Union Radio, where he read poems in the Pioneer Dressing Children's Program. And Pakhmutov was invited to write music for these poems to get children's songs. The first joint composition was the "Motor Boat", after which more than a hundred magnificent hives appeared.
In the same year, the personal life of Alexandra Pakhmutova has changed: they with Nikolai Nikolayevich fell in love with each other at a glance. After 3 months, Dobronravov led Alexander to the registry office, and they officially became her husband and his wife.
The composer decided not to wear a white dress with a veil. Her mother sewed an elegant pink suit, and in him the bride appeared at the wedding. Honeymoon spouses spent from relatives in Abkhazia, and on returning to Moscow, they plunged into operation.
Alexander Pakhmutov's own children and her husband did not have. But the unaffected love they have implemented in the work: their duet created a huge number of youth and children's hits, so the children and daughters of Pakhmutova were the guys of the whole country. Such songs like "Starfall", "Gaidar walks ahead", "Wild Dog Dingo" sounded performed by a large children's choir of All-Union Radio and Central Television.
In addition, the spouses carefully followed young dating and guarded talented performers, so today many musicians and singers call Alexander Nikolaevna and Vladimir Vladimirovich by the second parents.
Now, the couple lives in Moscow, the country house is in Peredelkino.
Few people know that this miniature woman (height 149 cm with weight in youth 45 kg) is seriously passionate about football and considers himself a fan of this game. Together with her husband, they support the Russian national team, and Pakhmutov itself is a devotee of the team "Rotor" from her native Volgograd.
In a duet with her husband, she even wrote a football song "This is our game" dedicated to Russian athletes. It remains to add that in 1968 the name Alexandra Nikolaevna was immortalized, and in a universal scale: Crimean scientists called the new asteroid with the name of Pakhmutov.
Music
It is noteworthy that Alexander Nikolaevna writes music in different genres, including serious works for symphony orchestras. For example, she composed "Russian Suite", "a concert for the pipe with the orchestra", the "Youth" overture, "ODU on fire" and other compositions.
By the way, the first two works from the above-mentioned quite often perform foreign symphony orchestras. And the talented choreographers of the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater and the Moscow Bolshoi Theater put on music Alexandra Nikolaevna ballet "Illness".
She wrote a composer and melodies for cinema. The soundtracks from the paintings "Girl", "three poplars on the spill", "Battle for Moscow" and many others became popular. In 1980, on a special order, Mok Pakhmutova composed music to the official Olympic film "On Sport, You're the World!".
Special, perhaps, even the key value in her work occupied the grade genre. Popular songs Alexandra Nikolaevna have their own personality, inspire a listener, carry a positive component and remain in memory for a long time.
Through decades have passed and did not lose the relevance of the lyrical compositions "Tenderness" (Favorite song Yuri Gagarin), "Old Male", "Belovezhskaya Pushcha", "How young we were", the perky songs "The main thing, guys, do not grow old heart!" And "good girls", patriotic "Orlyata learn to fly" and "Constellation of Gagarin".
The song "Melody" immediately fell into the repertoire of Muslim Magomayeva, who fulfilled her especially heartfelt, as at that time was worried about the period of temporary parting with the young wife of Tamara Sinyava. The spouse was in Italy in an internship at the La Scala Opera House. Later, Dobronravov admitted that the text to the composition "Melody of Love" he wrote, inspired by a feeling of his wife Alexander.
Pakhmutov took part and in the creation of sports hymns "Team of Youth of Our" and "Coward does not play hockey." The last song became a hit during the victorious procession of the USSR national hockey team in the 80s.
Listeners and fans were confident that words about the magnificent five belong to Vyacheslav Fetisov, Alexey Casantonov, Sergey Makarov, Igor Larionov and Vladimir Krutov. But in fact, the musical composition was created in 1968, when the future sports stars were 8-10 years old.
Among your favorite hits, Pakhmutova and Dobronravov - the farewell song of the Moscow Olympiad-80 "Goodbye, Moscow!". Initially, the text was supposed to contain a mandatory line "Up to Svidanya, Moscow, Hello, Los Angeles!". But the relations of the USSR and the United States have deteriorated sharply a few months before the sporting event, so the concept of the musical composition has changed.
There were Pakhmouth songs and those that were under the ban on the songs. This happened with the composition "And the battle continues again," where, in the sound of the drum, representatives of Khsovette heard the insult of the memory of the leader. Later, the song entered the repertoire of Lion Leshchenko and Joseph Kobzon.
Alexandra Pakhmutov songs entered the repertoire of such stars as Mikhail Boyarsky and Valery Ozodzinsky, Muslim Magomayev and Edita Pieha, Aida Vedecheva and Anna Hermann, Lyudmila Gurchenko and Valery Leontyev, as well as many others.
Critics reproached the composer in what she writes songs for the party. But after the collapse of the USSR, the musician continued to create hits. An example of this is the composition "Russian Waltz" from the repertoire of Juliana.
It is worth noting, performed the works of Pakhmutova not only Soviet, but also Western artists. For example, the former vocalist of the Modern Talking Group Thomas Anders, the British team Living Sound and the East German group Kreis.
Alexander Nikolaevna collaborated with prominent poets, including Robert Christmas, but the most durable and fruitful creative union was Alexander Pakhmutov and Nikolay Dobronravov.
A huge number of songs of music fans heard and fell in love with this duet. Their joint composition "Magnitka" in 2011 was even approved as an official anthem of the city of Magnitogorsk. Such a decision made a meeting of deputies of the city council.
In the same year, the creativity of the composer was devoted to the release of the popular music TV show "The Treasury of the Republic", which saw the audience of the First Channel. Oleg Mityaev, Joseph Kobzon, Diana Arbenina, Ivanushki International, Nikolay Soskov and other stars of the domestic show business, took part in the program.
Alexandra Pakhmutova deserved many awards with his work. In the account of the composer, three orders "For merit to the Fatherland", state awards of the USSR and Russia, the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR and the USSR.
With the participation of Pakhmutova and Dobronravov on television, the transmissions devoted to their creativity are published. At the end of 2017, on the first channel, the spouses performed in the program "Tonight", and the year earlier became the guests of the Tok show of Julia, Little "alone with everyone."
In February 2018, the premiere of the new song of Pakhmutova and Dobronravov "Kursk arc", which was written specifically for the Military TV film "Strong armor". The work lasted a month and a half, and then the finished material was recorded on the Mosfilm film studio with the participation of the Symphony Orchestra under the control of Sergey Violin, the Choir of the Sretensky Monastery and Solist Sergey Volchkov.
Alexandra Pakhmutova now
Now Alexander Pakhmutova remains an active participant in the cultural life of the country. The composer annually visits musical festivals, where it appears as a guest or a jury member.In Nizhny Novgorod, the festival of her songs "Nadezhda" is held, in the final of which the author head heads the judges' college. Pakhmutova also oversees the Music project "White Steamer", which takes place in the cities of the Far East.
In addition to Pakhmutova, this competition for children from disadvantaged families and disabled people support Nikolay Dobronravov, Opera singer Anna Netrebko, actor Sergey Yursky.
In November 2019, Alexander Pakhmutova celebrated his 90th anniversary in the creative evening, which was held on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater. Friends and colleagues of the family couple Pakhmutova and Dobronravov - Lev Leshchenko, Alexander Gradsky, Tamara Gverdcitel, Sergey Bezrukov and others arrived at the anniversary concert. The composer itself, as in many other speeches, was behind a piano, accompanying artists who perform her songs.
Congratulated the composer and the President of Russia Vladimir Putin. The head of state announced awarding the country's highest awards - the Order of Andrei First Called. In Volgograd, the opening of a monument was timed to the anniversary date, which is a shape of a girl playing on the accordion.
In the hometown of the composer, a meeting was held with her fans who presented Pakhmutov as a gift unknown earlier photos of her parents, which Alexander Nikolaevna was pleasantly surprised.
In May 2020, the premiere of the film "Sturdy Armor" took place, in which the song of Pakhmutov and Dobronravov "Kursk arc" sounded.
Discography
- 1960 - "Songs Alexandra Pakhmutova"
- 1963 - "Taiga Stars"
- 1975 - "Give the joy to people"
- 1980 - "My Love - Sport"
- 1981 - "Bird of Happiness"
- 1985 - "Battle for Moscow"
- 1995 - "Symphony works"
- 1996 - "Glow of Love"
- 2003 - "We don't live without a friend"
- 2011 - "Magic New Year"