Vincent d’ Indy Date of birth 27.03.1851 Date of death 02.12.1931 Profession composer, teacher Country France Paul Marie Theodore Vincent d’Andy was born March 27, 1851 in Paris. His grandmother, a woman with a strong character and a passionate lover of music, was engaged in his upbringing. D’Andy took lessons from JF Marmontel and A. Lavignac; regular employment was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), during which d’Andy served in the National Guard. He was one of the first to join the National Musical Society, founded in 1871 with the aim of reviving the former glory of French music; among d’Andy’s friends are J. Bizet, J. Massenet, C. Saint-Saens. But…

Edward Elgar Date of birth 02.06.1857 Date of death 23.02.1934 Profession composer Country England Elgar. Violin Concerto. Allegro (Jascha Heifetz) Elgar… is in English music what Beethoven is in German music. B. Shaw E. Elgar – the largest English composer of the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. The formation and flourishing of his activities are closely connected with the period of the highest economic and political power of England during the reign of Queen Victoria. The technical and scientific achievements of English culture and the firmly established bourgeois-democratic freedoms had a fruitful influence on the development of literature and art. But if the national literary school at that time put…

Hanns Eisler Date of birth 06.07.1898 Date of death 06.09.1962 Profession composer Country Austria, Germany At the end of the 20s, the militant mass songs of Hans Eisler, a communist composer who later played an outstanding role in the history of revolutionary song of the XNUMXth century, began to spread in the working-class districts of Berlin, and then in wide circles of the German proletariat. In collaboration with the poets Bertolt Brecht, Erich Weinert, singer Ernst Busch, Eisler introduces a new type of song into everyday life – a slogan song, a poster song calling for the struggle against the world of capitalism. This is how a song genre arises,…

Werner Egk Date of birth 17.05.1901 Date of death 10.07.1983 Profession composer Country Germany German composer and conductor (real name – Mayer, Mayer). He studied at the Augsburg Conservatory, on composition he used the advice of K. Orff. From 1929 he was a conductor in a number of t-ditch, in 1936-41 – in the Berlin State. opera, from 1941 directed by prof. association of composers, in 1950-53 director of the Higher Music. schools Zap. Berlin. President of the West German. Union of Composers (since 1950), German. music Council (1968-71). Corresponding Member German Academy of Arts (since 1966, Berlin). Performs as a musician. publicist. In the operas and symphonic works of…

Vladimir Shcherbachev Date of birth 25.01.1889 Date of death 05.03.1952 Profession composer Country the USSR The name of VV Shcherbachev is closely connected with the musical culture of Petrograd-Leningrad. Shcherbachev went into her history as an excellent musician, an outstanding public figure, an excellent teacher, a talented and serious composer. His best works are distinguished by the fullness of feelings, ease of expression, clarity and plasticity of form. Vladimir Vladimirovich Shcherbachev Born January 25, 1889 in Warsaw, in the family of an army officer. His childhood was difficult, overshadowed by the early death of his mother and the incurable illness of his father. His family was far from music, but…

Rodion Shchedrin Date of birth 16.12.1932 Profession composer Country Russia, USSR Oh, be our keeper, savior, music! Don’t leave us! wake up our mercantile souls more often! strike sharper with your sounds on our dormant senses! Agitate, tear them apart and drive them away, even if only for a moment, this coldly terrible egoism that is trying to take over our world! N. Gogol. From the article “Sculpture, painting and music” In the spring of 1984, in one of the concerts of the II International Music Festival in Moscow, the premiere of “Self-portrait” – variations for a large symphony orchestra by R. Shchedrin was performed. The new composition of the…

Heinrich Schuetz Date of birth 08.10.1585 Date of death 06.11.1672 Profession composer Country Germany Schutz. Kleine geistliche konzerte. “O Herr, hilf” (orchestra and choir conducted by Wilhelm Echmann) The joy of foreigners, the beacon of Germany, the chapel, the chosen Teacher. Inscription on the grave of G. Schütz in Dresden H. Schutz occupies in German music the place of honor of the patriarch, “the father of new German music” (an expression of his contemporary). The gallery of great composers who brought world fame to Germany begins with it, and a direct path to J.S. Bach is also outlined. Schutz lived in an era that was rare in terms of saturation…

Robert Schumann Date of birth 08.06.1810 Date of death 29.07.1856 Profession composer Country Germany To shed light into the depths of the human heart – such is the vocation of the artist. R. Schumann P. Tchaikovsky believed that future generations would call the XNUMXth century. Schumann’s period in the history of music. And indeed, Schumann’s music captured the main thing in the art of his time – its content was the “mysteriously deep processes of the spiritual life” of man, its purpose – penetration into the “depths of the human heart.” R. Schumann was born in the provincial Saxon town of Zwickau, in the family of the publisher and bookseller…

Clara Schumann Date of birth 13.09.1819 Date of death 20.05.1896 Profession composer, pianist, teacher Country Germany German pianist and composer, wife of the composer Robert Schumann and daughter of the famous piano teacher F. Wieck. She was born in Leipzig on September 13, 1819. She began giving public concerts at the age of 10. Around the same time, R. Schumann became a student of Wieck. His sympathy for Clara, mixed with admiration for her success, gradually grew into love. On September 12, 1840 they were married. Clara always played her husband’s music excellently and continued to play Schumann’s compositions in concerts even after his death. But most of her time…

Franz Schubert Date of birth 31.01.1797 Date of death 19.11.1828 Profession composer Country Austria Trusting, frank, incapable of betrayal, sociable, talkative in a joyful mood – who knew him differently? From the memories of friends F. Schubert is the first great romantic composer. Poetic love and pure joy of life, despair and coldness of loneliness, longing for the ideal, thirst for wandering and hopelessness of wandering – all this found an echo in the composer’s work, in his naturally and naturally flowing melodies. The emotional openness of the romantic worldview, the immediacy of expression raised the genre of the song to an unprecedented height until then: this previously secondary genre…