The history of creating a song as such dates back hundreds of years. People have always loved to express their feelings through poetry and music. There was no such event - whether historical or national scale, which would not be imprinted in the hearts of people, and then degenerated into beautiful words and melody. Many such cries gave rise to terrible dates 06/22/1941 - 09/09/1945. It was on sunny June days of the forty-first that a new history of the creation of a military song began.
The Great Patriotic War can rightfully be considered one of the most dramatic and bloody events of the last century. Witnesses of those terrible days are still alive, and we sacredly honor the memory of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the Great Victory. The events of that war are captured in films, poems, paintings, prose, and of course, in songs. Perhaps it was the songs that helped the soldiers not to lose heart, to believe in victory — they helped to survive. The lyrics of the war songs sounded like a hymn and a prayer. And now they are loved by us. Each song tells about someone’s fate - the fate of an individual or the fate of the whole people. The history of the creation of a military song is always different, but listening to each of them, you feel equally quivering. In the postwar years, the editorial staff of various newspapers received thousands of letters from war veterans in which they wrote that a particular song was written specifically about them, about their platoon, about their height. The soldiers in each saw themselves and their comrades, so the words of the songs were truthful and soulful.
The story of the creation of the military song "Holy War"
A lot of songs were written about the Great Patriotic War, but probably the very first was the “Holy War” to the verses of Lebedev-Kumach and the music of Aleksandrov. The story of the creation of the military song “Holy War” is as follows: once, at a breakfast in the House of the Red Army, a political worker approached Alexander Alexandrov and handed the composer the morning newspaper Izvestia with the words: “Alexander Vasilyevich, please read Lebedev-Kumach’s poem, maybe will you write a song? ”
Alexandrov read poetry and, without saying a word to anyone, went home. The composer was so amazed at the power of the poem that already in the evening the music was written, as strong: each note sounded like a call, a cry. Alexander Vasilievich wrote notes on the board and that very night, artists from the ensemble of the Red Army song learned it. It was the seventh day of the war. The next morning, at the Belorussky Train Station, the “Holy War” was performed in front of the soldiers departing for the front.
As soon as the first chords sounded, the station froze. The song struck everyone. At times, the artists of the ensemble could not sing, and the musicians played - a lump came up to the throat, and the hands did not obey. They listened to the song, standing in unprecedented silence. After the music calmed down, for a while everyone stood silently, and then there was a thunder of applause. They began to pour in from all sides of the request to sing the song again and again. Since that day, the song "Holy War" has become for many a military anthem. Years pass, the witnesses of those tragic events are becoming less and less, but the songs of the war years will always be an eloquent reminder of the horrors of war and a warning to future generations.