Mother Russia spread its vast expanses. Natural resources, ores and metals - all this is in a great power. In addition to material values, Russia is also rich in spiritual values. Music, theater, ballet, literature, architecture - these are the eternal blessings that glorify the country around the world. From generation to generation, people study the creativity and life of famous people. Many believe that it is the biography of Glinka, Pushkin, Lermontov, Lomonosov, Mandelstam that will answer many questions, the main of which is: “What served as the impetus for their work in this or that period?”
Russian composer Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
At the beginning of the 19th century, on May 20, 1804, in the village of Novospassky in the present Smolensk region, musical genius Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, a composer, was born. His brief biography is filled with notes of both joy and glory, so war and revolution. He is one of the few conquerors of the treble clef that is worshiped throughout the world. Despite his upbringing in typical patriarchal conditions at that time, the boy grew up being good-natured and meek. Already in childhood, Michael had a craving for creativity: collecting copper basins from all over the house, he imitated the bell-ringer on church belfries.
Education
Glinka's biography includes the period of home education (until the winter of 1817) and the years of study at the St. Petersburg noble guesthouse. It was there that he completely surrendered to his passion for the study of musical art. In the Northern capital, Mikhail Ivanovich took lessons on instruments such as the violin and piano. Later, he began to study singing, and then composition. It was in St. Petersburg that Glinka realized his true calling - to be a musician. He studied at the boarding school for four and a half years.
Being a man of a creative warehouse, Mikhail Ivanovich succumbed to the influence of the external environment. The first political event, due to which the creativity and, accordingly, Glinka's biography has changed, is the Patriotic War of 1812 . At the hostel, his teacher was V. Kuchelbecker (future Decembrist), so Mikhail Ivanovich understood the intricacies of politics and easily entered into a debate on this topic.
Creativity and later life
In the early 20s, Glinka's biography received the first musical records: his fame as a talented virtuoso of violin and piano was known to all of St. Petersburg. It was then that the author created his first works.
The next event, which influenced his political views and creative career, was the Decembrist uprising of 1825. It was then that many people close to the composer were sent into exile, and he was very often invited to interrogations. In the same year, the composer's first masterpiece appeared - the novel “Do not Tempt”, the words for which were composed by E. Baratynsky.
Glinka traveled a lot and under the influence of European musicians his style changed a little. Italy and Germany - countries with their own flavor - left a deep mark in the work of Mikhail Ivanovich.
The greatest work of the composer
After returning to their homeland, the greatest opera "Ivan Susanin" was created, the author of which was the composer Glinka. The biography of the musician has a huge number of works. Unlike the creation mentioned above, the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila, which was presented to the public in 1842, did not have such a frenzied popularity. Negative criticism provoked Mikhail Ivanovich to leave for Europe. The composer returned to his homeland in 1847. Three years later, Glinka began to teach singing in St. Petersburg, jointly preparing operas. The composer had a huge influence on the formation of Russian classical music. In the year 56 of the 19th century, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka left Russia and left for Berlin. There, on February 15, 1857, the composer died. The work of the famous musician has about 20 romances and songs, two operas and several works of chamber-instrumental type.