Biography
In the second half of the 20th century, the place that previously belonged to symphonic music and opera, took a kinometer. The Soviet composers Mikael Tariverdiev, Vladimir Dashkevich, Alexander Zatsepin, were not inferior to Western Colleagues Nino Rote and Ennio Morcona. The brightest music author to the films of all genres is Andrei Petrov.Childhood and youth
Andrei Pavlovich was born early in the fall of 1930 in Leningrad in an intelligent family. Father Pavel Platonovich was a surgeon, Olga Petrovna's mother - an artist.
During the war, Andrei was evacuated to the Siberian town of Leninsk-Kuznetsky, where the Leningrad Conservatory was taken out. The abundance of classical musicians led to the opening in the city of the first music school, in which Petrov studied to play violin. The teenager was not going to associate life with music - created stories and illustrations to them.
The decision to become the composer came to Andrey after viewing the picture "Big Waltz" - Johanna Straussa Bayopic. Congenital abilities of Petrov secured training at the conservatory.
Music
Andrei Pavlovich is a very prolific composer, the Peru belongs to the operas, ballets, symphonies, romances and instrumental concerts. The most famous from the "Ninexiatographic" Heritage of Petrova Ballet "Creation of the World" and the Opera "Peter First", at the premiere of which the curiosity occurred. The author of the work, exhausted with rehearsals, fell asleep on the first execution, sitting in the first row of the parquet.However, it is known to each Soviet man Petrov, thanks to the music for the films. Andrei Pavlovich's debut in the cinema (music to the Music-Amphibian tape of the director of Vladimir Chebotarev and Gennady Kazan) became a triumphal. After a quarter of a century, the composer and the director again worked together over the film "Battalions are asking for fire."
Stanislav Rostotsky collaborated with Petrov ("White Bim Black Ear"), Georgy Delialia ("I'm walking in Moscow", "Autumn Marathon") and such a nemeinstream director, as Alexey Herman ("Khrustalev, Machine!").
Andrei Pavlovich for Eldar Ryazanov became a genuine co-author and talisman of good luck. Without melodies, Petrova it is impossible to submit the Ryazan "Garage" and "Beware of the car", "Service Roman" and "Sleep the word about the poor hussar".
Personal life
The personal life of Andrei Petrova did not have anything in common with passions and scandals, which were filled with the biographies of colleagues of the composer. For more than half a century, the musician lived in a happy marriage with a journalist Natalie Efimovna. In 1956, his wife gave Andrei Pavlovich the only daughter called in honor of the composer's mother. Olga Andreevna went at the footsteps of the Father, the music for the TV series "Petersburg secrets" Petrov wrote together.
The grandchildren of Andrei Pavlovich Manan and Peter, who did not know in childhood that the author of the melodies that they sang, their grandfather, now, too, musicians. Their memories and photos from the family archive often publish the media. The composer came up with the wedding style of granddaughter, held in six months after his death - the bride, the bride and all guests were closed in denim clothing. Petrova has a great-grandfather Philip.
All familiar composer noted modesty, politeness and correctness of Andrei Pavlovich. Petrov easily communicated with neighbors and plumbers, hot days loved to spend on the lake in the village of Osinovaya Grove. The only element of luxury who allowed himself a musician is a daily glass of dear whiskey before dinner.
Death
Andrei Pavlovich died suddenly in February 2006. The cause of death is stroke. 6 months before the death, the composer wrote a work "Farewell to ...". When the journalists asked the musician to explain the name, Petrov replied that the person throughout his life constantly had to say goodbye - with former passions and hobbies, with people whom he never sees.The composer is buried on the second in the prestigiousness of St. Petersburg - "Literal Mostkits" of the Volkovsky cemetery. The tombstone on the grave was performed by architect Vyacheslav Bukhaev, co-author of Chizhik-poultry on the fountain. The opening of the monument to Andrei Pavlovich took place on the birthday of the musician - September 2, 2007. On the same day, the first All-Russian composer competition was started, which since then takes place annually in St. Petersburg.
The memory of the author of melodic music is immortalized in the title of theatrical and concert hall of the Humanitarian University of Trade Unions, with whom a man collaborated. The name Andrei Petrov is named the garden, which arose in the Petrograd side on the site of the nameless Square, and a small planet.
Work
- 1950 - "Pioneer Suite"
- 1956 - Ballet "Stationander"
- 1959 - Ballet "Coast of Hope"
- 1967 - Musical "in the rhythm of the heart"
- 1971 - Ballet "Creation of the World"
- 1975 - Opera "Peter First"
- 1980 - "Song of the Lenin Party"
- 1983 - Opera Faria "Mayakovsky begins"
- 1995 - Symphony with Choir "Time Christ"
- 1998 - Piece for double bass and piano "I walk on Broadway"
- 2005 - "Farewell to ..."
Filmography
- 1961- "Man-amphibian"
- 1963 - "I'm walking in Moscow"
- 1966 - "Beware of the car"
- 1968 - "Old, old fairy tale"
- 1976 - "Blue Bird!
- 1977 - "White Bim, Black Ear"
- 1977 - "Service Roman"
- 1979 - "Autumn Marathon"
- 1980 - "Clear the word about the poor hussar.
- 1982 - "Train Station for Two"
- 1985 - "Battalions are asking for fire"
- 1993 - "Nastya"
- 1994-1995 - "Petersburg Secrets"
- 1998 - "Khrustalev, Machine!"
- 2000 - "Old Klyachi"