Alexandra Pakhmutova is a popularly revered and beloved composer. Her works became a symbol of the Soviet era. Now it is impossible to imagine the culture of the country without the songs “Hope”, “Tenderness”, “How Young We Were” or “Old Maple”. These and many other wonderful compositions lived, live and will live among us. Many wonderful pieces of music were written by Alexander Pakhmutov. The biography of this wonderful woman will be presented in this article.
Childhood
Pakhmutova Alexandra Nikolaevna was born in 1929, on November 9, in the village of Beketovka of the Lower Volga region. Her dad - Nikolai Andrianovich - worked at a sawmill and seriously studied music, and her mother - Maria Ampleevna - supported this passion of her husband in everything. Alexandra from childhood was distinguished by her extraordinary talent. She managed to write the first melodies at the age of three. And two years later she wrote her first piece for piano - "Roosters Sing." When the girl was seven years old, in 1936, she entered a music school. There she studied until the start of the Second World War. From 1942 to 1943, Alexandra Pakhmutova lived in evacuation in the city of Karaganda. There she continued to study music. At 14, the girl arrived in the capital. She entered the Central Music School of Moscow. Here Alexandra attended piano classes and a circle of young composers led by N.I. Peyko and V.Ya. Shebalina. The girl’s brilliant musical abilities were obvious to everyone.
Education at the conservatory
At the age of 19, Alexander Pakhmutov, whose biography is considered in this article, entered the Moscow State Conservatory named after Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, at the composer department. She studied with Professor Shebalin Vissarion Yakovlevich. In 1953, Pakhmutova graduated from the conservatory, and after three years - graduate school. She defended her thesis, the subject of which was the study of the score of the opera M.I. Glinka "Ruslan and Lyudmila".
Variety of genres
All my life Pakhmutova Alexandra Nikolaevna worked in a variety of genres. She wrote compositions for a symphony orchestra (Overture "Youth", "Russian Suite", Ode to a Fire); works of the cantata-oratorio type ("Vasily Terkin", "Squad songs", "Red Rangers"). On the basis of her music, the ballet "Inspiration" was created, staged at the Bolshoi Theater, in 1974.
Many other works were written by Alexander Pakhmutov. The biography of this woman is associated with constant creative activity. She composed instrumental music for numerous films: “Apple of Discord”, “Girls”, “Ballad for Sports”, “Closing of the Season”, “Three Poplars on Plyushchikha”, “Family of Ulyanovs”, “Oh Sport, You Are the World!” and so on.
Songs of Alexandra Pakhmutova
This musical genre is of exceptional importance in the work of the composer. In her songs, Alexandra Nikolaevna raises humanistic themes and embodies them in a lyrical manner. She knows how to give her works a special intonation that has a unique effect on people. In her work there is a melodic "highlight". She, according to Svetlanov Eugene (a famous conductor and composer), "lies on the heart" and "remains conscious for a long time." The composer Alexandra Pakhmutova creates all the scores of her own songs herself. She believes that without a melodic talent, the composer has nothing to do in the song. The creator must be responsible for the fate of his work from beginning to end: for the development of its "thematic grain", the creation of the score, and the recording in the studio.
The most famous songs
More than four hundred songs were written by Alexander Pakhmutov. The biography of this woman is decorated with the creation of the most moving and inspiring works. The most famous and favorite of them: Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Cherry Orchard, Heroes of Sport, Tenderness, Eagles Learn to Fly, Hope, My Friend, Our Fate, Scarlet Sail , “Wait a minute,” “Temp,” “Noisy bread”, “Old maple”, “Snow Maiden”, “Listen, mother-in-law”, “Russian waltz”, “Northern song”, “Good girls”, “I can't do otherwise "," Smolensk Road "," Bird of Happiness "," Across the Hangar "," Farewell, beloved "," Front End "," My Beloved, "On Takeoff!", "Years Passed", "How Young We Were" and many others. The songs of Alexandra Pakhmutova are written on the verses of the most outstanding poets of the country: Mikhail Matusovsky, Lev Oshanin, Rimma Kazakova, Evgeny Dolmatovsky, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Alexei Lvov, Inna Goff, Sergey Grebennikov.
Song "Tenderness"
This one of the most famous and beloved songs of the people arose completely by accident. When Alexander Pakhmutova, a recent graduate of the Conservatory, was offered to write music for the film “Three Poplars on Plyushchikha,” she resolutely refused. The plot of the movie did not inspire her at all. Photos of Pakhmutova Alexandra clearly demonstrate the miniature of this woman. However, such a fragile body hides a remarkable character. The composer changed her point of view only after watching the film. She just fell in love with the game of Tatyana Doronina and Oleg Efremov and stated that she would not give this film to anyone. Impressed by the viewing, the song “Tenderness” became a symbol of true love. After the release of the painting in 1967, this composition was awarded the first prize at the International Youth Song Festival in Sochi. The first was performed by the brilliant Maya Kristalinskaya.
Space theme
Space exploration became the unsurpassed height that the Soviet Union took in the post-war era. No one better than Alexandra Nikolaevna captured the scale of this grand achievement in their works. All cosmonauts did not cherish the soul in this woman. They believed that the tiny Alexander Pakhmutov, whose growth is only 149 centimeters, has a truly cosmic musical talent. The composer's greatest friend was Yuri Gagarin. A cycle of five songs is dedicated to him, including the famous “You Know What a Guy He Was”. Star Gull, We Gagarins, The Milky Way, Epitaph - this is an incomplete list of songs written by Pakhmutova in space subjects.
Acquaintance with the future husband
The most fruitful and constant was the creative union of Alexandra Nikolaevna with Nikolai Dobronravov. These talented people are connected and personal relationships. They met in 1956, in the spring, and got married literally a few months later. Future spouses met on the radio, in the ninth studio of children's broadcasting. At that time, Nikolai Nikolaevich worked in the Moscow Youth Theater and read his own poems in the programs “Attention, to the start!” And “Pioneer dawn”. There he first saw a miniature person - a composer who wrote music for children's radio broadcasts. It was Alexandra Pakhmutova. The girl was not tall, but she immediately struck the poet with a combination of fragile appearance and strong character. With the children's song “Motor Boat” their joint creative activity began.
Wedding
The wedding of Pakhmutova and Dobronravov took place on August 6. Alexandra Nikolaevna did not have a white dress. Mom and sister sewed her a beautiful pink suit in which she came to the wedding. The couple recall that the heat was incredible that day, but when they arrived at the registry office, it started to rain. It is believed that this is a happy omen. It is possible that this is true, because the composer Alexandra Pakhmutova and the poet Nikolai Dobronravov have already lived together for 58 years! And still their eyes shine with love and happiness.
Living together
Immediately after the wedding, the couple left for Abkhazia. In Moscow, they still had nowhere to live, so they spent a honeymoon in the Armenian Gorge, with relatives. They remember this time as the happiest of their lives. The couple spent the first night near the Black Sea, walking along the “lunar” paths of the local coast. Since then, they have not been separated. They joke that they cheated on each other, but only in a creative way. Pakhmutova and Dobronravova have no secrets of family happiness and longevity. They say that they simply do not find fault with each other on trifles and together they do what they love. Many are interested in what the children of Alexandra Pakhmutova do. Unfortunately, the composer failed to feel the joy of motherhood. However, this did not affect the composer's family happiness.
Conclusion
November 9, 2014 photo Pakhmutova Alexandra appeared on the pages of all print media. Indeed, on this day she was eighty-five years old! Looking at a fragile, energetic and benevolent woman, it is hard to believe it. Thinking about the phenomenon of her talent, you come to the conclusion that the creative biography of this composer harmoniously merged with the historical fate of the country. The works written by her passed the test of necessity, truth, demand. And in this sense, the children of Alexandra Pakhmutova are her songs. She managed to put a bright, inspiring beginning in them, able to express the very essence of the bygone era of great achievements and grand victories.