Biography of Sofia Gubaidulina

Biography of the gubaidullin genus. The village of Byryaka.

Feeling the deep, creative roots of his own kind, Sofia Asgatovna once said: “It is important for me that I am a continuation of the Gubaidullin clan. Psychologically very important. ” These felt words of the worldwide recognized composer are even more elevated to her as a musician - a thinker who possesses her outstanding ancestors “wisdom of the initiates”.

The old village with the unusual name of the Byryak arose in the southeast of the Kazan province, presumably in the 10ths. In the local Bashkir and Kazakh language, it means "abundance". The founder of the mighty clan of the Gubaidullins was Ibrahim - Khazruti, directed to the village of Byryak from Bashkir Ermkekeevo at the end of the 18th century. It was he who began to open the madrasah and introduce progressive teaching methods.

The surname of the Gubaidullins occurs on behalf of the great -great -grandfather of the composer Gubaidullah - Hazryata - the son of Ibrahim. He inherited from his father the position of Imam of the Cathedral Mosque and was the founder of the Gubaidiya Madrasah in the village of Bayryaka Bugulminsky district, now the Utazinsky district of Tatarstan. The tradition, named by the name of the “Gubaidia”, was the second largest and significance after the Kazan “Muhammadia”.

At the beginning of the century, there were studied near the Shakirds. The founder of the Gubaidiya Madrasium Mudarris Professor Gubaidullah - Khazdhat studied in Bukhara, Arabia, India. His children and grandchildren also received a good education. Thanks to the constructed cathedral mosque and its activities - Gubaidullah - Khazryata, Gabdulgali - Hazryata and his sons of Muhsin and Masgut, the grandfather of the composer, the village of Bayryak for more than a hundred years became one of the spiritual centers of the region.

Childhood composer Sofia Gubaidulina was born in Chistopol on October 24 in the Russian-Tatar family. Her mother is Feodosia Fedorovna Elkhova, a primary school teacher, father-Angat Masgutovich Gubaidullin, geodeuster engineer, a graduate of the Moscow Summary Institute. This is love for life, until old age ... ”, said Sofia Gubaidulina in an interview.

In Kazan, Sofia Gubaidulina lived for about 23 years - from for a year. The older sister Vera in her memoirs calls her family as an extra, where the main thing was spiritual development. At this difficult time, she worthy to endure all the hardships of life, abandoning her own interests, and always remained a responsible, demanding and rather harsh mother ... ”Sofia Gubaidulina herself speaks about his father with particular admiration.

Sofia Asgatovna calls the entire Kazan period the entire Kazan period “is“ large, thorough preparation ”. In general, I put this period very high, because Kazan gave me a real classical education ... ”Sister Vera in connection with an event that played a decisive role in the fate of both younger sisters recalls the words of his father. How justified was the acquisition of the piano at that hungry time, the father said: "The intelligentsia should be musically educated." When S.

Gubaidulin was asked - what in her life she remembered as the most important event? In the period from the years, Sofia Gubaidullin went a difficult way from school to conservatory. Starting from the music school, where she was accepted at the age of five in the form of an exception, she studied with first -class teachers. Ruvim Lvovich Poles, a completely unusual person with the highest artistic aspirations, became my spiritual father.

My piano teacher Ekaterina Pavlovna Leontyeva was also a wonderful person and an excellent teacher. I had a great sense of love during the period of study by S. Pyatnitskaya, classmates admired her absolute hearing, inspired improvisations behind the piano. The young Sonya, as well as at school, spoke a lot and willingly at the school itself, at city concerts, as well as as part of concert brigades who went through the regions of the republic.

From the city of Sania, Gubaidullina studied at the Kazan Conservatory, opened immediately after the war in the year, and received a brilliant education there. Professors of the Moscow and Kazan Conservatory L. Lukomsky and G. Kogan gave her magnificent pianistic training. And the composers N. Zhiganov and A. Leman at that time young, who had just begun pedagogical activity, supported and developed in it an interest in the composition and taught its foundations.

In the conservatory, Sonya also played a lot, often performed at concerts. She played excitingly, carrying the listener as if the world ceased to exist. A great impression on the state commission at the end of the conservatory was made by an artistic, spectacular, mature game “Appassionates” by Beethoven and “Dance of Death” of the sheet. Performing successes were obvious. Her teachers predicted her a successful pianist career.

However, the decision to become a musician - the writer was still prevailing. Leman played a decisive role in the formation of S. Gubaidulina as a composer. It was he who recommended to continue the composer education in Moscow, and the rector of the conservatory N. Zhiganov signed a capacious and accurate description: “S.Gubaidullina has a vivid artistic talent, manifested both in the creative composer and in the performing pianistic field.

A very serious, thoughtful musician, with great abilities for further development. Throughout the entire stay in the Kazan Conservatory, a perfectly Stalin scholarship was worked. After graduating from the conservatory with a specialty of piano, Gubaidullin should continue training in the class of composition. ” Many years later, the eminent composer said "I am convinced that without the Kazan period the composer would not have happened to me." The departure to Moscow is tall, slender, with huge eyes and curly hair, all in motion, in a fit of young Sonya Gubaidullin was very attractive, always stood out for everyone.

With their future husband, poet Mark Lyando, they met in the "New Year" of the fifty -fourth at one of the student balls in the club of Mehovshchikov. Then the spring came, shrouded in “green sound” M. Poems and then - both decided to leave for Moscow. She is to study at the Moscow Conservatory, and he returned to his hometown, which he often saw in his Kazan dreams. Later, already in Moscow they got married, and their daughter Nadezhda was born.

Sofia Asgatovna’s father is a highly intelligent person who received a deep spiritual education, perhaps, especially subtly understood the complex creative nature of his daughter. This restrained love of his father and words that he said before leaving for Moscow, Sofia Gubaidulina still remembers: “Just in no hurry at the crossings of the street ... In essence, the most important thing that I had to say ...

And I also see some kind of rooted over the centuries, in the family, in the family, the most serious one is just life.” In Moscow, young Sonya was escorted by the whole world: parents, sisters, friends. Close people understood that this is for a long time, maybe forever.