Shebalin biography briefly

Pupils composer, teacher and public figure. Born on May 29 in Omsk. From a family of teachers. After a short learning to play the piano at home, he graduated from the classes of the piano game in Omsk, then the Omsk Musical School now bears his name in the class of the composition M. studied at the Omsk Agricultural Institute.

By this time he wrote his first essay - a scherzo for a symphonic orchestra. The decisive for the further creative fate of the young composer was a move to Moscow and entering the conservatory in the class of N. Myskovsky, who had a great influence on him, graduated from the conservatory in his first symphony in his student years hearing it, B. Asafiev noted the “strong and strong -willed talent” of the author.

Since the year, after the concert in the MZK on March 20, at which the works of both composers were performed, the preserved correspondence has become close and made friends with D. Shostakovich indicates that Shostakovich was extremely valued by the opinion of Shebalin. By his own admission, the genre in which Shebalin expressed his most secret thoughts, there was a string quartet from the software wrote 9 quarters, including the Slavic Quartet, the Stalinist prize, no less vividly showed himself in 5 symphonies, in theatrical music he collaborated with the Armed Forces.

Meyerhold, Yu. Most fame, Opera of Shebalina, “taming the obstinate” according to W. Shakespeare, was most famous, among other works-the ballet of “past days” on the themes of M. Glinka, orchestration together with A. Papp, drama, Symphony “Lenin” for the reader, soloists, choir and orchestra to V. Mayakovsky, 2nd edition, Russian Object ”for the orchestra, concerts for various instruments with the sonata orchestra, sonatins, choirs unaccompanied and the choirs with accompaniment, etc.

He gave a lot of effort to the restoration and editing of the works of Glinka“ Symphony on two Russian topics ”, M. Mussorgsky“ Sorochinsky fair ”, S. Gulak -Sertemovsky“ Zaporozhets behind the Danube ”; I added a number of scenes. From the year, immediately at the end of the conservatory, he began teaching at first as an assistant of Measkovsky. He led the class of essays in –48 and over the years.

Among the students: Vl. Agafonnikov, L. Auster, E. Denisov, T. Korganov, K. Kuzhamyarov, V. Morozov, A. Nikolaev, A. Pakhmutov, A. Spada -keta, V. Tormis, T. Khrennikov, K. Khachaturian in all over the post of director of the Moscow Conservatory in the difficult year, Shebalin managed to withdraw it from the Anabiosis for several years, caused by the evacuation of the main pedagogical forces, attracted the teaching of new qualified teachers, resumed and established the work of the choir and the orchestra, restored the performances of the opera studio, and brought the system of training in the proper order of training in the order CMSh.

He also taught at the Higher School of military conductors of the Soviet Army –51, in the years - the head of the department; Among the students of V., the author of articles on the problems of composer creativity and education. The Stalinist prizes of the USSR, his son - D. Musical Works: see Literary Works: see ME 6; KPM 4. died on May 29 in Moscow. Source: Shebalin V.

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