Musical culture cannot exist withoutconductors, as well as the film industry without directors, literary and publishing activities without editors, fashion projects without designers. The head of the orchestra ensures the organic interaction of all the instruments during the performance. The conductor is the main character on the stage of the philharmonic society, concert hall or any other music venue.
Virtuosos
Symphony orchestra coherence, slimthe sound of numerous musical instruments is achieved through the skill of the conductor. No wonder the most talented of them are honored with various high ranks and titles, and people call them "virtuosos". Indeed, the immaculate possession of a baton allows you to bring to every musician sitting in the orchestra pit all the nuances of a creative impulse. The huge symphony orchestra suddenly begins to sound like a single whole, and the musical composition at the same time opens up in all its glory.
Famous conductors are combined on the basis ofmastery, they all passed the school of high art, did not immediately come to their popularity and recognition of the general public. Popularity is acquired over the years. In the majority of well-known conductors, in addition to concert activities, they are engaged in teaching, conduct courses for young musicians, as well as master classes.
Self-sacrifice
The art of conducting orchestra requiresyears of practice, continuous improvement, which translates into endless rehearsals. Some well-known conductors are distinguished by their special creative stubbornness, bordering on self-sacrifice, when personal life is relegated to the background and only the music remains. However, this situation benefits art.
The most famous conductors are associated with contractscertain musical groups, and this gives them the opportunity to achieve a high level of performance of musical works. At the same time, mutual understanding is necessary, which will later serve as a guarantee of successful concert activity.
Famous Opera Conductors
В мировой музыкальной иерархии есть имена, who know everything. The names of famous opera conductors can be found on posters, billboards, cruise liners are called by their names. This popularity is well deserved, since few people are still able to devote their whole life, without a trace, to music. The most famous conductors travel around the world, tour with various musical groups or lead orchestras in major music centers. Opera performances require special coherence of the orchestra when accompanied by vocals, arias and cavatin. In all music agencies you can find the names of famous opera conductors who can be invited to the season or a number of performances. Experienced impresarios know the style of work and the characteristics of each person. It helps them make the right choice.
Famous Conductors of Russia
Music, especially opera, consists of manycomponents. Here and the orchestra, which includes a variety of instruments: wind, string, bow, percussion. Soloists, vocal performers, choir and other participants of the performance. Separate fragments of the opera performance are united into one whole by the director of the performance and the conductor of the orchestra. And the latter is actively involved in the action from the beginning to the end. In Russia there are conductors who, with their music, direct the opera along the only right path that leads the viewer to real art.
Famous conductors of Russia (list):
- Aleksandrov Alexander Vasilyevich.
- Bashmet Yuri Abramovich.
- Bezrodnaya Svetlana Borisovna.
- Theological Nikita Vladimirovich.
- Bronevitsky Alexander Alexandrovich.
- Vasilenko Sergey Nikiforovich.
- Garanian Georgy Abramovich.
- Gergiev Valery Abisalovich.
- Gorenstein Mark Borisovich.
- Dyagilev Sergey Alexandrovich.
- Evtushenko Alexey Mikhailovich.
- Ermakova Lyudmila Vladimirovna.
- Kabalevsky Dmitry Borisovich.
- Kazhlaev Murad Magomedovich.
- Kogan Pavel Leonidovich.
- Lundstrem Oleg Leonidovich
- Mravinsky Evgeny Alexandrovich.
- Svetlanov Evgeny Fedorovich.
- Spivakov Vladimir Teodorovich.
Каждый известный российский дирижер может успешно to lead any foreign symphony orchestra, for this purpose several rehearsals are enough. The professionalism of musicians helps to overcome the language barrier and the difference in styles.
World celebrities
Famous conductors of the world are talented musicians recognized by the general public.
Pavel Kogan
The most famous Russian conductor whoFor over forty years, has been giving the world its art. Its popularity is unprecedented. The name of the maestro in the list of the ten greatest contemporary conductors. Born in the family of famous violinists, Leonid Kogan and Elizabeth Gilels. Since 1989, he has been the permanent artistic director, as well as the Principal Conductor of the Moscow State Academy of Architecture and Design (Moscow State Symphony Orchestra). At the same time represents Russia in major music centers in America.
Pavel Kogan performs around the world with the bestsymphony orchestras, his art is considered unsurpassed. Maestro is the winner of the State Prize of Russia, is the title of "People's Artist of Russia". Pavel Kogan also has many awards, including the Order of Merit for the Fatherland and the Order of the Arts.
Herbert von Karajan
Всемирно известный дирижер австрийского Origin Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989) was born into a family of Greek immigrants. At the age of eight, he entered the Mozarteum Conservatory in the city of Salzburg, where he studied for 10 years and received his initial conducting skills. At the same time, young Karayan mastered playing the piano.
Debut took place in 1929 in SalbourgFestival Theater. Herbert conducted the opera "Salome" by Richard Strauss. From 1929 to 1934, he was the chief conductor at the theater in the German city of Ulm. Then Karajan stood for a long time behind the conductor console of the Vienna Philharmonic. At the same time he performed with the opera Walpurgis Night by Charles Gounod.
The finest hour for the conductor came in 1938, when Richard Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolda performed great success, after which Herbert began to be called Miracle Karayan.
Leonard Bernstein
American conductor Leonard Bernstein(1918-1990), born in a family of Jewish immigrants. Music education began for Leonard as a child, he learned to play the piano. Gradually, however, the boy joined in conducting, and in 1939 he made his debut - young Bernstein played a composition of his own composition called The Birds with a small orchestra.
Благодаря высокому профессионализму Леонард Bernstein quickly gained popularity and already at a young age headed the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Being a comprehensive creative person, the conductor was engaged in literature. He wrote about a dozen books on music.
Valery Gergiev
The famous conductor Gergiev Valery AbisalovichBorn May 2, 1953 in Moscow. At the age of nineteen he entered the Leningrad Conservatory. As a student, he participated in the international competition of conductors in Berlin, where he took second place.
After graduating from the conservatory in 1977, the youngThe conductor was accepted as an assistant in the Kirov Theater. His mentor was Yuri Temirkanov, and already in 1978, Valery Gergiev stood up for the console and played Prokofiev’s opera War and Peace. In 1988 he replaced Yuri Temirkanov, after his departure to the Leningrad Philharmonic.
The year 1992 was marked by the return of the Kirovthe theater of its historical name "Mariinsky Theater". The theater audience of St. Petersburg, to get to the opera performances, is recorded in advance, for the months ahead. Today Valery Gergiev is the principal conductor of the theater and its artistic director.
Evgeny Svetlanov
Famous Conductor, Russian and Worldwide, EugeneFedorovich Svetlanov (1928-2002) left a noticeable trace in the cultural heritage of Russia. He has the title "Hero of Socialist Labor" and "People's Artist of the USSR." He is the winner of the Lenin and State Prize of the USSR.
Creative career of Svetlanov began immediatelyafter graduating from the Gnesins Institute in 1951. He continued his studies at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of opera and symphony conducting and composition.
Debut took place in 1954 on the stage of the Bolshoitheater staged by the opera Pskovity Rimsky-Korsakov. From 1963 to 1965 he was the chief conductor of the Bolshoi Theater. During his work, the level of opera performances increased markedly.
In the years 1965-2000 Combined his work as artistic director and chief conductor of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra (later Russia).
Vladimir Spivakov
Russian conductor Spivakov Vladimir Teodorovich was born in 1944 in the city of Ufa. In 1968 he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, in 1970 graduate school.
Vladimir Spivakov studied at the Gorky Conservatory under the supervision of Professor Israel Gusman. Later he passed a special course in the USA, with Leonard Bernstein and Lorin Maazel.
Currently is permanenthead and conductor of the Moscow Virtuosos Chamber Symphony Orchestra, which he personally organized in 1979. He performed with European orchestras and musical groups of the USA. He conducted at the La Scala Theater, the Academy of Cecilia, the Philharmonic of the German city of Cologne and French Radio. He is the president of the International House of Music in Moscow.
Yuri Bashmet
Russian conductor Bashmet Yuri Abramovich was born on January 24, 1953 in Rostov-on-Don. People's Artist of the USSR. Winner of four State Prizes of the Russian Federation.
In 1976 he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory.In 1972, while still a student, he acquired the violin-viola of the Italian master Paolo Testore, made in 1758. Bashmet plays this unique instrument today.
Активную концертную деятельность начал в 1976 a year later, and two years later he received a teaching position at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1996, Yuri Bashmet created the "Alta Experimental Chair", where he studied viola parts in symphonic, opera and chamber music. At the same time he received the title of professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Currently engaged in active charitable and social activities.
