Curious cases in the life of the composer Solovyov the gray. Song creativity V
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Vasily Soloviev-Sedoy was born on April 25, 1907 in the family of Pavel and Anna Soloviev in St. Petersburg... His parents came from peasants. After serving in the tsarist army, my father went to Petersburg, lived in poverty for a long time and took up any job. Happiness smiled at him when he got a job as a janitor in a house on the Obvodny Canal. Vasily's mother was a native of the Pskov region, knew many Russian folk songs and loved to sing them. These songs played an important role in the musical development of the future composer. Anna, shortly before moving to Staro-Nevsky, got a job as a maid for the famous singer Anastasia Vyaltseva.
The first musical instruments that Vasily learned to play as a boy were the balalaika (a precious gift from his father) and the guitar. In the summer, Vasya's hair was completely burnt out from the sun, and his father affectionately called him gray or gray. The courtyard boys liked the nickname "Gray", and since then Vasily has been called just that.
Cellist of the Mariinsky Opera Orchestra N. Sazonov lived in their house. It was with his help that Vasily was introduced to great art. He managed to see and hear Fyodor Chaliapin in the operas Boris Godunov and The Barber of Seville.
Silent cinema introduced Vasily to the piano. A small cinema "Elephant" was opened in house 139, where films with the participation of Buster Keaton and Vera Kholodnaya were shown. Noticing a curiosity at the screen - a piano, Vasily begged the projectionist to allow him to try the keys and quickly picked up "The month is shining" by ear. The admirable mechanic allowed him to sit down to the instrument every morning, and Vasily undertook to carry films, helped to "scroll" them, and cleaned the hall. Such classes helped Vasily Pavlovich a lot, when, after the revolution and the death of his mother, he took up musical improvisation in cinemas, then accompanied gymnastics lessons in an art studio, and later on the radio he also accompanied radio gymnastics programs.
Vasily continued his musical education at the Third Music College in the class of Pyotr Borisovich Ryazanov, an outstanding teacher-mentor of many Soviet composers. Soloviev-Sedoy studied at the composer department together with Nikita Bogoslovsky. At the technical school, he became friends with Ivan Dzerzhinsky and Nikolai Gan. In 1931, the entire course was transferred to the conservatory.
For the first time Vasily Pavlovich was noticed as a composer-songwriter at the Leningrad competition of mass songs in 1936 - the first prize was awarded to his songs "Parade" to the words of A. Gitovich and "Song of Leningrad" to the words of E. Ryvina. The songs of Solovyov-Sedoy were sung by famous singers: Irma Yaunzem sang his song "The Death of Chapaev" in 1935 during the decade of Soviet music in Moscow, Leonid Utesov sang for the first time his songs "Two Friends Served" and "Cossack Cavalry". On June 22, 1941, the war began, and the very next day the poetess L. Davidovich brought the poems to Solovyov-Sedoy under the title "Dear Outpost". They were written before the war and revised to make the necessary verse:
But a wicked enemy flock
Above us, like a cloud soared
Outpost dear
For the Motherland rose
On July 24, Solovyov-Sedoy composed the melody of this song, came to his friend, actor Alexander Borisov, they found an accordion player, and on the same evening the song sounded from the loudspeakers over the city.
Solovyov-Sedoy's sensitivity to the Russian literary word, especially the poetic one, was unique.By 1935, there were twenty-four works created by Soloviev-Sedov. Among them was music for the theater, a lyric poem for a symphony orchestra, pieces for violin and piano, and a piano concert. But none of his songs went viral. However, their author was noticed by Dunaevsky, who was able to discern an outstanding musical gift in Soloviev-Sed.
During the war, Solovyov-Sedoi created many wonderful songs: "Evening in the roadstead", "Vasya Kryuchkin", "What are you yearning for, comrade sailor", "Like beyond the Kama, across the river", "On a sunny meadow", "Do not disturb you yourself, do not disturb "and other works.
In August 1941, Solovyov-Sedoy, together with the poet Alexander Churkin, was sent to the port, where, like thousands of Leningraders, they took away logs, cleaned up the territory in order to reduce the danger of fire from incendiary bombs. At the end of a long day of work, they sat down to rest aboard the unloaded barge. It was a late Leningrad evening. Nothing reminded of the war. In the bay, shrouded in a blue haze, a ship stood in the roadstead. Soft music came from him: someone was playing the button accordion. When we went home, the composer said: "Wonderful evening. Worth a song." Upon returning home, Churkin sat down to write poetry, and Solovyov-Sedoy - music. Three days later a new song was born - "Evening on the Road". The composer and poet took her to the composers' house. There, the song was found too calm, even mournful and, as it was said, not meeting the requirements of wartime.
Solovyov-Sedoy put the song aside, and it lay in his suitcase for a year. After the circle of the blockade closed around Leningrad, Solovyov-Sedoy, who had been evacuated to Orenburg shortly before, again presented his song to the court of his colleagues. They called it "gypsy", and the composer again postponed the song. But in March 1942, it still sounded and became popular. This is how it happened. Solovyov-Sedoy gave a concert in a soldier's dugout with the Yastrebok theater team he created. The front line was one and a half kilometers away. There were no more than thirty soldiers in the audience. The concert was already drawing to a close when the composer decided to sing "Evening on the Road" to the accordion himself. He accompanied himself, and sang, addressing the soldiers:
Let's sing, friends, because tomorrow we will go camping
Let's go into the predawn fog.
Let's sing more merrily, let us sing along
The gray-haired battle captain.
When the chorus sounded for the third time - "Farewell, beloved city!", It was picked up by all the listeners. The author was asked to dictate the words, and then sing the song again with everyone. This has never happened in the life of a composer: people sang his song, which they had not heard before. For several days, the song scattered on all fronts. Her words were transmitted by field telephones by signalmen. At night on the phone they sang it to the accordion. The song was sung at the front and in the rear. She became beloved by the people.
Solovyov-Sedoy was exacting to the poetic word, since he himself had an extraordinary literary gift. A number of his songs were composed by him on his own verses. In one of them, he defined the spiritual purpose of the song for a soldier who is ready to face death and conquer it:
Not a joyful song, but a sad motive
Remember your dead friends
If you remember your friends, you will conquer it differently,
Soldiers are a special people!
We don't cry from pain, we will cry from a song,
If the song reaches the heart.
Vasily Pavlovich considered his meeting with the poet Alexei Fatyanov in 1942 to be a great event in his life.
The most famous song "Nightingales", created in 1943, can be called the pinnacle of their creativity. Fatyanov wrote lyric poems about nightingales, in which he expressed the unity of man, nature, the living world in anticipation of the triumph of life over death:
What a war for a nightingale -
The nightingale has its own life.
The soldier does not sleep
remembering the house
And the garden is green over the pond,
Where nightingales sing all night
And in that house they are waiting for the soldier.
Fatyanov read poems to Solovyov-Sedom, and he came up with music for them. Fatyanov's lines caused dramatic reflections in the composer: "Dying is always hard. It is doubly hard to die on the eve of victory. We talked a lot about this, and suddenly ... nightingales, lyrics ...". The song became the anthem of life in the war. There was sadness in her home, and the feeling of spring, and the expectation of victory, and hard soldier's work.
Nightingales, nightingales,
do not disturb the soldiers,
Let the soldiers
get some sleep ...
The song quickly sounded on the front lines. In it, the feeling of the whole people was conveyed through personal experience - this was characteristic of the songwriting of Solovyov-Sedoy. His songs of the war years became popular, because the folk soil on which they grew was a Russian lyric song, distinguished not only by bright sadness, but also by the spaciousness of free sounding, extraordinary emotional strength.
The post-war years are characteristic for Vasily Pavlovich by the appearance of songs written for the films "Heavenly Slow" and "The First Glove". In 1947, he was again awarded the State Prize for the songs "We haven't been home for a long time", "The nights have become bright", "Time to go, road" and "A guy is going on a cart". And the first time he was awarded the State Prize in 1943. In 1945, the composer was awarded the Order of the Red Star. Having composed the song "Where are you now, fellow soldiers?" The cycle was first performed by Klavdiya Shulzhenko at the Central House of Arts in November 1947.
On March 12, 1950, Vasily Soloviev-Sedoy was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and devoted a lot of time to deputy work.
In 1956 he wrote the song "Moscow Nights". It was one of the five songs that created the background music for the chronicle-documentary film "In the days of the sports day" about the first sports day of the peoples of the USSR. Solovyov-Sedoy assessed it as another good song - no more. He was sincerely surprised when the song "Moscow Nights" won the first prize and the Big Gold Medal at the international song contest, which was held during the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in the summer of 1957.
"Moscow Nights" became a song-symbol of Russia for the whole world. They were performed for piano at concerts by the famous American pianist Van Cliburn. The famous English jazz figure Kenny Ball made a jazz arrangement of Solovyov-Sedoy's song and released a disc with a recording called "Midnight in Moscow". When in 1966 the young Soviet vocalist Eduard Gil sang "Moscow Nights" at the International Variety Competition in Rio de Janeiro, the audience picked up the song from the second verse. In 1959, Solovyov-Sedom was awarded the Lenin Prize for the songs "On the Road", "Versts", "If the Boys of the Whole Earth", "March of the Nakhimovites" and "Moscow Nights".
In cinema, Solovyov-Sedoy was the author of music in more than fifty films. The composer has created several song cycles: "The Tale of a Soldier", "Northern Poem" in 1967, "Light Song" in 1972, "My Contemporaries" (1973-1975).
In the last 4 years of his life, Solovyov-Sedoy was seriously ill, but the illness did not prevent him from celebrating his 70th birthday in 1977. Friends, artists came to the composer's house on the Fontanka River embankment No. 131, and the composer's anniversary was broadcast on television.
Vasily Soloviev-Sedoy died on December 2, 1979, and was buried at Literatorskie mostki. In 1982, his best childhood friend, actor Alexander Borisov, was buried near his grave.
In 2007, the documentary "Marshal of the Song. Vasily Soloviev-Sedoy" was shot.
- 1930
Vocal quartet "Come on, who will find the end?", Children's songs, romances, etc.
Six Variations for Piano - 1931
Song "Umolot" (lyrics by S. Polotsky) and other songs
Music to the plays of the children's puppet theater - 1932
"Songs of the Hungarian Revolt" (lyrics by A. Gidas and V. Sedoy) for baritone and
symphony orchestra
A number of vocal compositions
Sketches of the symphonic poem "Pioneer, fight for the homeless child"
Music to the plays of the children's puppet theater - 1933
"Serenade" (original title "Song of Balthazar", lyrics by W. Shakespeare in translation
M. Kuzmina; from the music to the comedy by W. Shakespeare "Much Ado About Nothing")
"Lyric Songs" (lyrics by A. Churkin and P. Oyfa)
Romance "Letter to the Beloved" (lyrics by A. Zharov)
Sketches for the "Lyric Poem" for the symphony orchestra and the opera "Mother" (after M. Gorky) - 1934
Poem for symphony orchestra "Partisanship"
Suite for piano
Radio operetta "Good Weather" (lyrics by E. Vechtomova and G. Kalvari)
Piece for violin and piano
"Chastushka" (lyrics by V. Azarov) - 1935
Composing a Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (unfinished)
Piece for cello and piano
Romance "Farewell to the Birch" (words by S. Yesenin) - 1936
Romances: (words by S. Yesenin) "Play, play a talyano", "Weave on the lake"
Songs: "The Death of Chapaev" (lyrics by 3. Alexandrova)
"Cossack Cavalry" (lyrics by A. Churkin)
"Parade" (lyrics by A. Gitovich)
"Eh, wheels" (lyrics by P. Belov)
"The death of the motor ship" Komsomol "(lyrics by P. Belov)
"Song of Leningrad" (lyrics by E. Ryvina)
"The Tale of the Horseman" - ballad for voice and piano (lyrics by A. Churkin)
Preludes for Piano
Music for plays and radio plays
Beginning of work on the opera "Friendship" (libre. V. Voinov) - 1937
Romances (lyrics by A. Pushkin):
"The last time your image is cute"
"Winter road" - 1938
Songs: "Taiga" (lyrics by V. Gusev, from V. Gusev's play "Glory")
"Love" (lyrics by V. Gusev, from V. Gusev's play "Glory")
"Song of two comrades" (lyrics by V. Gusev, from V. Gusev's play "Glory")
"What do we girls miss" (from the film "July 11", lyrics by A. Churkin)
"Belarusian Partisan" (from the film "July 11", to lyrics by A. Churkin)
"Let's go, brothers, to be called" (to lyrics by A. Churkin)
"Blue Scarf" (lyrics by A. Churkin)
"A Simple Song" (lyrics by A. Prokofiev)
Work on the opera "Friendship" has been discontinued
Beginning of work on the ballet "Taras Bulba" (libre by S. Kaplan and R. Zakharov) - 1939
Songs: "I dream about our future" (from the film "Everyday life", lyrics by M. Svetlov)
"Farewell" (from the film "Friends", to lyrics by M. Svetlov)
"Fisherman's" (from the film "Heaven", to lyrics by M. Svetlov)
"A boat is racing in the deep surf" (from the film "Heaven", to lyrics by M. Svetlov)
Continuation of work on the ballet "Taras Bulba"
Composition of the opera "Polinka" (libre. V. Rothko; only the first act was written) - 1940
The end of the ballet "Taras Bulba" (in its first edition) - 1941
Songs: "Play, my button accordion" (lyrics by L. Davidovich)
"Meeting of Budyonny with the Cossacks" (lyrics by A. Churkin)
"Evening on the Road" (lyrics by A. Churkin) - 1942
Songs: "Above Your Head" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Guards Song" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Harmonica" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
“I returned to my friends” (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"With Kuban, dear to the heart" (lyrics by V. Gusev)
"The sailor was leaving home" (lyrics by M. Isakovsky)
Work on the opera "Nastya" (based on the story of K. Paustovsky "The Lacemaker
Nastya"; the first act and the first picture of the second act are written) - 1943
Songs: "South Ural" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov, later called "Guards Camping"
with a new text by A. Churkin)
"The Ballad of Matrosov" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"A Cossack went to fight" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
“Girls Offended” (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"On a sunny meadow" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Do not grieve, my queen" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Night over the dugout" (lyrics by V. Gusev)
"Vasya Kryuchkin" ("The Girl and the Platoon", to lyrics by V. Gusev)
"When you sing a song" (lyrics by V. Gusev)
"As behind the Kama, across the river" (lyrics by V. Gusev)
"Miner's Drinking" (lyrics by M. Lvov)
"There was a stern, unhappy soldier" (lyrics by V. Dykhovichny)
"What are you yearning for, comrade sailor" (lyrics by V. Lebedev-Kumach)
"What nice guys" (lyrics by M. Isakovsky) - 1944
Songs: "Berry" (lyrics by V. Vinnikov)
"Conversation" (words by S. Fogelson)
"Do not disturb yourself, do not disturb" (words by M. Isakovsky)
"The Ballad of a Soldier's Dream" (lyrics by A. Prokofiev)
"Our homeland - Russia" (lyrics by A. Prokofiev)
"Goodbye, little white girl" (lyrics by A. Prokofiev)
"Nightingales" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"She didn't say anything" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
Beginning of work on the operetta "Faithful friend" (libretto by V. Mikhailov) - 1945
Songs: "At the edge of the forest" (lyrics by A. Sofronov)
"Krasnoflotskaya grandmother" (lyrics by A. Sofronov)
"Three pilots were friends" (to lyrics by S. Fogelson)
"Sailor's Nights" (words by S. Fogelson)
"Time to go, road" (from the film "Heavenly slug", words by C. Fogelson)
"Because we are pilots" (from the film "Heavenly Slow Mover", lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"About Vassenka" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Rain" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Star" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Far or Nearby" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Far Native Aspens" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
“We haven't been home for a long time” (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Our City" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Hear me, good" (lyrics by M. Isakovsky)
Completion of the composition of the operetta "Faithful friend" - 1946
Songs: "Dance-dance" (to lyrics by S. Fogelson)
"Song of the Nakhimovites" (from the film "Nakhimovtsy", to lyrics by S. Fogelson)
"Paths-paths" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Suffering" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"The nights have become bright" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Song of Krasnodon citizens" (words by S. Ostrovy)
"Cornflower" (lyrics by A. Churkin)
"A guy is going on a cart" (lyrics by N. Gleizarov)
"Get Tempered" (from the film "The First Glove", lyrics by V. Lebedev-Kumach)
"On a Boat" (from the film "The First Glove", to lyrics by V. Lebedev-Kumach) - 1947
Song cycle "The Tale of the Soldier" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov):
"There was a soldier from a distant land"
"Tell me guys"
"Son" ("Lullaby")
"The accordion sings beyond Vologda"
"Where are you now, fellow soldiers"
"Cheering".
Songs: "The Talkative Miner" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov and S. Fogelson)
"Golden Lights" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov and S. Fogelson)
"A Merry Song About the Station Master" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"My native side" (to words by S. Fogelson)
“A person is a person” (“It happens very often in life”, words by N. Labkovsky and B.
Laskin)
"Komsomolskaya Farewell" (from the music for the play "The Beginning of the Path", to lyrics by A. Galich)
Beginning of work on the operetta "The most cherished" (libre. V. Massa and M. Chervinsky) -
first edition - 1948
Song "Where are you, my garden" (from the film "The night of the commander", lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
September 15 - the beginning of work on the second version of the ballet "Taras Bulba"
1949 Songs: "Student passing" (to lyrics by S. Fogelson)
"The sun is rising" (lyrics by L. Oshanin)
"March of the Nakhimovites" (from the film "Happy Swimming", lyrics by N. Gleizarov)
"Let's Sing, Friends" (from the film "Happy Voyage", to lyrics by N. Gleizarov)
"At the native Irtysh" (from the film "Soviet Siberia", to lyrics by N. Gleizarov) - 1950
Songs: "Reeds" (lyrics by A. Churkin)
"The steppe path is asleep" (lyrics by A. Churkin)
"Natasha" (lyrics by M. Isakovsky)
"The Good Wife" (lyrics by N. Gleizarov) - 1951
Songs: "Student Song" ("How We Were Friends", lyrics by L. Oshanin)
"Versts" (lyrics by L. Oshanin)
"White nights are over Leningrad" (words by S. Fogelson) - 1952
Songs: "My friend is a communist" (lyrics by S. Fogelson)
"Azov partisan" (from the radio show "Sea of Azov", lyrics by A. Zorin)
"Lyrical Maiden" (from the radio show "Sea of Azov", to lyrics by A. Zorin)
"March of Young Workers" (from the film "Towards Life", to lyrics by N. Gleizarov)
"Sad Song" (from the film "Towards Life", to lyrics by N. Gleizarov)
Completion of work on the operetta "The most cherished" (second edition) - 1953
Songs: "Samovar" (lyrics by N. Gleizarov)
"Yolka" (lyrics by N. Gleizarov)
November - completion of the score of the second edition of the ballet "Taras Bulba" - 1954
Songs: "Song of the Fighters" (from the play "The Son of Rybakov", to lyrics by V. Gusev)
"Song of Spring" (from the play "Rybakov's Son", to lyrics by V. Gusev)
"Summer Song" (lyrics by N. Gleizarov)
"Song of Angarvaya" (from the film "Girl-Horseman", lyrics by M. Volpin)
"Good morning" (from the film "Good morning", lyrics by V. Solovyov-Sedoy)
"What are the winds for us" (from the film "Good morning", to lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Festive" (from the film "All-Union Agricultural Exhibition", lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"You and I did not know about each other" (from the film "All-Union Agricultural
exhibition ", sl. A. Fatyanova)
"Evening" (from the film "All-Union Agricultural Exhibition", lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Steppe all around" (from the film "All-Union Agricultural Exhibition", lyrics by N. Labkovsky)
"Lyric Song of Nastya" (from the film "World Champion", lyrics by M. Svetlov) - 1955
Songs: "On the Road" (from the film "Maxim Perepelitsa", lyrics by M. Dudin)
"My crane, crane" (from the film "Maxim Perepelitsa", lyrics by M. Dudin)
"Song about Ukraine" (from the film "One Fine Day", lyrics by B. Paliychuk)
"Care started in my soul" (from the film "One Fine Day", lyrics by V. Bokov)
“I look into spacious fields” (from the film “One Fine Day”, lyrics by V. Bokov)
"Complaint" (from the film "One Fine Day", lyrics by V. Bokov)
Completion of the score of the second edition of the ballet "Taras Bulba"
November - the beginning of work on the opera Lyubov Yarovaya (suspended in March 1956) - 1956
Songs: "Station Bullfinches" (lyrics by M. Matusovsky)
"March of the Police" (from the film "The Song of the Herder", to lyrics by M. Matusovsky)
“Once in a Spring Morning” (from the film “The Horseman's Song”, to lyrics by M. Matusovsky)
"To you, my beloved, I am writing a letter" (from the film "The Song of the Herder", lyrics by M. Matusovsky)
"The groom's couplets" (from the film "The Horseman's Song", to lyrics by M. Matusovsky)
"Song of Distant Roads" (from the film "In the days of the Olympics", lyrics by M. Matusovsky
"" (From the film "In the days of the Olympics", words by M. Matusovsky)
"Serenade" (from the film "She Loves You", to lyrics by S. Fogelson)
"The Dawn is Burning Down" (lyrics by N. Gleizarov) - 1957
Songs: "Festival Song" (lyrics by N. Gleizarov)
"Evening Song" (lyrics by A. Churkin)
"If the boys of the whole earth" (words by E. Dolmatovsky)
"Get Out Your Old Suitcase" (from the play "Long Road", to lyrics by A. Arbuzov)
"Song of Parting" (from the play "Long Road", to lyrics by A. Arbuzov)
December - the beginning of work on the ballet "Festival" - 1958
Songs: "To an Old Friend" (lyrics by M. Matusovsky)
"Good morning, Komsomol members" (lyrics by A. Churkin)
"Road, Road" (from the film "The Next Flight", to lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Song of the chauffeur" (words by S. Fogelson) - 1959
Songs: "Novgorod the Great" (lyrics by A. Prokofiev)
"Love Your Factory" (lyrics by A. Churkin)
The composer died on December 2, 1979 in Leningrad Vasily Soloviev-Sedoy... He was 72 years old. His real name is Soloviev. He told the story of his pseudonym: “Somehow in the early thirties, when he was studying at the conservatory, Professor Pyotr Borisovich Ryazanov, having listened to my symphonic picture“ Partisans ”, said:“ Well done, Soloviev! ” And then he smiled: “Soloviev ... I can't think of a more dissonant surname for the composer. How many Solovyovs are already indulging in music ... If you create something worthwhile, they will be credited with it, the bad will remain with you. We'll have to look for a pseudonym. "
It didn't take long to think about the pseudonym. As a child, his hair quickly burned out in the summer, and his father jokingly called him "gray" - hence the Gray. By the way, the composer liked to sign the musical signs "Fa-Si-La-Si-DO" ("Vasily Sedoy").
Thanks to Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy, more than 400 songs have found music, some of them have become real hits and are still sung.
"Evening Moscow" offers you 10 of the most famous songs to the music of Solovyov-Sedoy.
1. "Play, my button accordion" (1941)
On verses by Lyudmila Davidovich. The poet brought the composer the text "Dear Outpost" on June 23, on the second day of the war. Solovyov-Sedoy immediately composed a melody in a waltz rhythm, changed the name and rushed to Alexandrinka, to his childhood friend Alexander Borisov. They found an accordion player, rehearsed - and already on June 24, Leningraders heard from all the loudspeakers: "Play, my button accordion, and tell all your enemies that it will be hot for them in battle ..." The title of the song also became the name of a popular TV show (since January 16, 1974).
2. "Evening on the Road" (1941)
On poems by Anatoly Churkin. Soloviev-Sedoy recalled that in August 1941 he worked with a group of composers and musicians on loading in the Leningrad port. It was a quiet evening, sailors were singing on the ship nearby. And the composer had the idea to write a song about this quiet wonderful evening, which unexpectedly fell to the lot of people who tomorrow, perhaps, will have to go on a dangerous campaign. Returning from the port, he came up with the beginning of the chorus: "Farewell, beloved city!", And, starting from it, began to write music. Two days later, he gave the notes to the poet. When Vasily Pavlovich sang the song for the first time, her friends rejected her: they say, she is too calm and quiet, not suitable for the formidable wartime. But the front-line soldiers quickly appreciated it.
3. "On a sunny meadow" (1942)
On the verses of Alexei Fatyanov. The poems were written back in 1941, they were scolded for their frivolous tone (“about how hot nights / spent with a friend, / what half-hangers he / she gave beautifully”). However, the music of Solovyov-Sedoy gave them a second life.
4. "Nightingales" (1942)
On the verses of Alexei Fatyanov. Journalist Vasily Peskov once asked Georgy Zhukov which songs of the war years he loved most. The great commander named three: "Eh, roads", "Holy war" and "Nightingales".
5. "Our city" (1945)
On the verses of Alexei Fatyanov. The chorus melody served as the call signs of the Leningrad radio
6. "Birds of passage" (1945)
On the verses of Alexei Fatyanov. Song from the movie "Heavenly Slow Mover".
7. "We haven't been home for a long time" (1945)
On the verses of Alexei Fatyanov. The song was written in May 1945 near Königsberg. Initially, it said: "Why do they need early dawns, / Kohl guys in the war / In Germany, in Germany, / In the damned side", but after the war they began to sing "in the far side."
8. "Where are you now, fellow soldiers" (1946)
On the verses of Alexei Fatyanov. After the ban on the second episode of the film "Big Life", where songs based on poems by Fatyanov were used, his work was hushed up. The song of Solovyov-Sedoy returned his poems to the radio. The first version of the music was written in minor key. Singer Efrem Flax, having listened to the song, suggested that the composer switch to parallel major by the end of the musical phrase. Vasily Pavlovich listened to an old friend and subsequently jokingly called Ephraim his co-author. Flux became the first performer of Friends-Brothers.
9. "Moscow Nights" (1955)
On poems by Mikhail Matusovsky. Song from the film "In the days of the Olympics" (1955). It gained particular popularity during the VI World Festival of Youth and Students (July 1957). It was often performed at Soviet exhibitions around the world. Interestingly, the melody of the song was even more appreciated than the words. It is said that one English leader of a jazz group, having heard the melody "Podmoskovnye in the evening" on vacation in Italy, wrote it down on a box of cigarettes and the next day, interrupting his rest, flew home. And the song soon sounded in his jazz concerts.
10. "If the boys of the whole Earth" (1957)
On verses by Evgeny Dolmatovsky. The idea was inspired by the French film If the Boys Are All Over the World (1955, directed by Christian-Jacques) based on the novel of the same name by Jacques Rémy. As Evgeny Dolmatovsky recalled, singer Mark Bernes "had an idea - to follow the already gone film," launch "a song."
His life is worthy of a Hollywood film script: the son of a janitor and a maid became one of the most beloved composers of the entire Soviet Union. Almost from the cradle he listened to the singing of the great Anastasia Vyaltseva, for whom his mother worked as a maid.
In the war, Solovyov-Sedoy received the title of Marshal of Song. So at the front, Georgy Zhukov himself called him.
The songs of Vasily Pavlovich Soloviev-Sedoy have stood the most serious test - by time. Without it, it is impossible to imagine Russia in the twentieth century ...
Marlene Dietrich, having heard a song once "Nightingales", said: "This song was not enough for me in the war." And the popular Czech singer Karel Gott told how the songs of Solov-Sedoy entered his repertoire. Even during the events of 1968, he performed the legendary "Nightingales" in Prague.
At the beginning of the war, many political workers reproached the composer for the excessive lyricism of war songs. But Soloviev-Sedoy did not back down: "Sadness and grief can be no less mobilizing." Legendary words "Evenings on the road" sailors even tapped out in Morse code.
For the first time, the film will open a page in the composer's life associated with 1948, when after the Central Committee's resolution on the "Struggle against formalism in music" it was Solovyov-Sedoy who replaced the disgraced Dmitry Shostakovich and saved many musicians from repression.
Almost the entire Leningrad Union of Composers owed housing to Solovyov-Sedo, he literally opened the door with his foot to the Leningrad City Executive Committee.
Viewers will also learn the amazing story of the song, which the whole world considers the musical hallmark of Russia. The Music Council of the Tsentrnauchfilm studio sent a letter to the composer: "You, the author of such outstanding songs, this time wrote a sluggish, inexpressive song, and we are not sure whether we will include it in the film." This song turned out to be "Moscow Nights"…
Despite the apparent well-being in the life of Vasily Pavlovich, there were many dramatic pages. Few people know that in the last years of the musician's life, his songs were literally arrested at the Radio Committee and did not sound on the air. Undoubtedly, this situation affected the health and brought the death of the genius closer ...
For the first time from the TV screen, Vasily Soloviev-Sedoy Jr. will tell about the famous grandfather.
Tikhon Khrennikov, Sergei Mikhalkov, Alexander Kolker, Maria Pakhomenko, Eduard Khil, Edita Piekha will also share their memories of the composer
Russia celebrates the 110th anniversary of the birth of the great composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy
Vasily Pavlovich was rightfully called the "Marshal of the Song". His heartfelt works were performed by Mark Bernes and Edita Piekha, Leonid Utesov and Klavdia Shulzhenko, Louis Armstrong and Karel Gott. The famous "Moscow Nights" at the final concert was performed by the winner of the First Competition. P.I. Tchaikovsky Van Cliburn. Songs of Solovyov-Sedoy sounded at the front and in peacetime, at the World Festival of Youth and Students and at home holidays.
The future composer was born in Petrograd into a family of peasants. Vasya's father vegetated for a long time until he got a job as the chief janitor on Nevsky Prospekt 139. Mother worked as a maid for the famous singer of that time Anastasia Vyaltseva. The artist predicted a great future for her and intended to define her as a chorus girl. But the husband told the waiter his weighty no, and she was forced to submit, focusing on raising the child. As a consolation, she received several records from Vyaltseva, which motivated Vasily to study music.
Vasily's personal "universities" began in the cinema, where he first helped the projectionist, and then worked as a pianist. He sounded radio gymnastics programs, which is why he was forced to trudge at five in the morning to record every day. Once Solovyov-Sedoy was only two minutes late, but the presenter said everything he thought about him, forgetting to turn off the microphone.
He studied at the Third Music College in the class of Pyotr Borisovich Ryazanov, an outstanding teacher and mentor of many Soviet composers. He studied at the composer department together with the famous Nikita Bogoslovsky. In 1931, the entire course of the technical school was transferred to the Leningrad Conservatory, which Solovyov-Sedoy graduated from in 1936 in the composition class of the same Ryazanov.
No matter how cynical it may sound, the Great Patriotic War gave a serious dramatic impetus to the work of Solovyov-Sedoy. In the period 1941-1945. he wrote about 70 songs that won him national love; among them "Evening on the roadstead" (poems by A. D. Churkin), "On a sunny meadow" ("Taglianochka"), "Nightingales", "We have not been home for a long time" (all three - on the verses of A. I. Fatyanov) , "What are you longing for, comrade sailor?" (verses by V. I. Lebedev-Kumach), “Do not disturb yourself, don’t disturb yourself”, “Hear me, good one” (both to the verses by M. V. Isakovsky), “Sailor's Nights” (verses by S. B. Fogelson ). In 1945, songs appeared for the comedy film "Heavenly Slow Mover" - "Because we are pilots" (poems by A. I. Fatyanov) and "Time to go, road" (poems by S. B. Fogelson); in the same year the premiere of his operetta "Faithful friend" took place in Kuibyshev.
The song "Moscow Nights", co-written with Mikhail Matusovsky, became a real success for Solovyov-Sedoy. Her tandem was commissioned for the film "In the days of the Olympics". Friends undertook to voice the documentary through passage without much enthusiasm. Solovyov-Sedoy extracted a two-year-old melody from the zagashniks, and Matusovsky sketched out the text, which was then criticized to smithereens by Mark Bernes, who flatly refused to sing about "moves and does not move" and "you look sideways with your head tilted." Then the song became popular in many ways during the performance of Vladimir Troshin.
Aleksey Fatyanov was a permanent co-author of Soloviev-Sedoy. “On a sunny meadow”, “We haven't been home for a long time”, “Migratory birds”, “Friends-fellow soldiers” and the famous “Nightingales”. The poet's widow told how her husband and Solovyov-Sedoy composed songs: “In the early morning Lyosha went to Vasya's hotel“ Moscow ”, where he always stayed and lived in the same room with a piano. We took vodka, a lot, a snack. First they drank a bottle and only then went to the instrument. By the evening a whole battery of bottles was lining up under the piano, and another wonderful song was ready. So they lived: ate, drank, walked, composed. Vasya was very cheerful, light, witty, and outgoing. And his music! A genius, he is a genius. "
Unfortunately, the abundant libations became for Vasily Pavlovich at a certain stage not a source of inspiration, but a dead end. Composer Serafim Tulikov recalled how, on vacation at the House of Composers in Ruza, Soloviev-Seda and his friend Boris Mokrousov got into the habit of going to the other side of the Moskva River in a shinok, which they lovingly called "Mokrousovka". The wives, having learned about the leisure of the faithful, began to watch them in the morning at the bridge. Then the drinking companions, bypassing all the cordons, ford the river up the neck and managed to "reach the condition" even before dinner. The way back was especially difficult. And in the dining room of the House of Composers, behind the old sideboard, Solovyov-Sedoy always had a bottle of vodka hidden away, and he, while absenting from salt and mustard, quietly drank during a meal almost in front of his wife.
Tulikov believes that alcohol brought Solovyov-Sedoy to a creative crisis and caused his premature death. “He could not hold on,” Tulikov told his biographer Yuri Zelnikov. - He then in recent years has become incredibly angry. Because young people, young people found new means in the song and moved forward. And he stopped. It pissed him off terribly... The gray-haired went on tour with concerts. Well, kind of creative meetings. Old songs were performed. He could no longer tolerate everything new that appeared then. Everyone has their own end. "