Song creativity Solovyov gray-haired. Solovyov-Sedoy Vasily Pavlovich
RIA NewsOn December 2, 1979, the composer died in Leningrad Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy. He was 72 years old. His real name- Solovyov. He told the story of his pseudonym as follows: “Somehow in the early thirties, when I was studying at the conservatory, Professor Pyotr Borisovich Ryazanov, after listening to my symphonic picture“Partisanism,” he said: “Well done, Solovyov!” And then he smiled: “Soloviev ... You can’t think of a more dissonant surname for the composer. How many Solovyovs have already indulged in music ... If you create something worthwhile, they will be attributed to them, bad ones will remain with you. I'll have to find a pseudonym."
I didn't have to think long about the pseudonym. As a child, his hair quickly burned out in the summer, and his father jokingly called him "gray" - hence Gray. By the way, the composer liked to sign with the notes "Fa-Si-La-Si-DO" ("Vasily Sedoy").
Thanks to Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy, more than 400 songs found music, some of them became real hits and are still sung to this day.
Vechernyaya Moskva brings to your attention the 10 most famous songs to the music of Solovyov-Sedoy.
1. "Play, my button accordion" (1941)
On lyrics by Lyudmila Davidovich. The poetess brought the text "Dear Outpost" to the composer 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 the enemies that it will be hot for them in battle ...” The name 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. Solovyov-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 came up with 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, he began to write music. Two days later he handed over the notes to the poet. When Vasily Pavlovich sang the song for the first time, her friends rejected her: they say she was too calm and quiet, not suitable for a formidable military time. But the front-line soldiers quickly appreciated it.
3. "On a sunny meadow" (1942)
Lyrics by Alexei Fatyanov. The poems were written back in 1941, they were scolded for their frivolous tone (“about how hot nights / spent with a girlfriend, / what half-shawls he gave her / beautiful ones”). However, the music of Solovyov-Sedoy gave them a second life.
4. Nightingales (1942)
Lyrics by Alexei Fatyanov. Journalist Vasily Peskov once asked Georgy Zhukov what songs of the war years he liked best. The great commander named three: “Oh, roads”, “Holy War” and “Nightingales”.
5. Our City (1945)
Lyrics by Alexei Fatyanov. The melody of the chorus served as the call signs of the Leningrad radio
6. " Migratory birds» (1945)
Lyrics by Alexei Fatyanov. Song from the movie "Heavenly slug".
7. "We haven't been home for a long time" (1945)
Lyrics by Alexei Fatyanov. The song was written in May 1945 near Koenigsberg. Initially, it said: “Why do they need early dawns, / If the guys are at war / In Germany, in Germany, / In the damned side”, but after the war they began to sing “in a distant side”.
8. "Where are you now, fellow soldiers" (1946)
Lyrics by Alexei Fatyanov. After the ban of the second series of the film " big life”, where songs based on Fatyanov’s poems were used, his work was hushed up. Solovyov-Sedoy's song brought his poems back to the radio. The first version of the music was written in minor key. Singer Ephraim Flaks, after listening to the song, suggested that the composer switch to a parallel major by the end of the musical phrase. Vasily Pavlovich listened to his old friend and subsequently jokingly called Ephraim his co-author. Flaks became the first performer of "Fellow Soldiers".
9. " Moscow Nights» (1955)
On verses by Mikhail Matusovsky. Song from the film "In the days of the Spartakiad" (1955). Received particular popularity in the days of VI world festival youth and students (July 1957). It was often performed at Soviet exhibitions around the world. Interestingly, the melody of the song was appreciated even more than the words. They say that one English leader jazz band, having heard on vacation in Italy the melody " Podmoskovny in the evening”, 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 the verses of Evgeny Dolmatovsky. The idea was inspired by the French film If the Boys of the World (1955, directed by Christian-Jacques) based on novel of the same name Jacques Remy. As Yevgeny Dolmatovsky recalled, the singer Mark Bernes "came up with an idea - in pursuit of the already departed film," launch "a song."
- 1930
Vocal quartet "Come on, who will find the end?", children's songs, romances, etc.
Six variations for piano - 1931
The song "Umolot" (lyrics by S. Polotsky) and other songs
Music for children's plays puppet theater - 1932
"Songs of the Rebellious Hungary" (lyrics by A. Gidash 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 for children's puppet theater plays - 1933
"Serenade" (original title "Balthazar's Song", lyrics by W. Shakespeare in translation
M. Kuzmina; from music to the comedy by W. Shakespeare "Much Ado About Nothing")
"Lyrical Songs" (lyrics by A. Churkin and P. Oifa)
Romance "Letter to Beloved" (lyrics by A. Zharov)
Sketches for "Lyrical Poem" for symphony orchestra and opera "Mother" (after M. Gorky) - 1934
Poem for symphony orchestra "Partisan"
Suite for piano
Radio operetta "Good Weather" (lyrics by E. Vechtomova and G. Calvary)
Piece for violin and piano
Chastushka (lyrics by V. Azarov) - 1935
Composing a concerto for piano and orchestra (not finished)
Piece for cello and piano
Romance "Farewell to the Birch" (lyrics by S. Yesenin) - 1936
Romances: (words by S. Yesenin) “Play, play talyanochka”, “Weaved out on the lake”
Songs: "The Death of Chapaev" (lyrics by 3. Alexandrova)
"Cossack cavalry" (lyrics by A. Churkin)
"Parade" (lyrics by A. Gitovich)
“Oh, the wheels” (lyrics by P. Belov)
"The death of the ship "Komsomol" (lyrics by P. Belov)
"Song of Leningrad" (lyrics by E. Ryvina)
"The Tale of the Horseman" - a ballad for voice and piano (lyrics by A. Churkin)
Preludes for piano
Music for plays and radio shows
Start of work on the opera Friendship (libre by V. Voinov) - 1937
Romances (lyrics by A. Pushkin):
"IN last time your image is cute"
"Winter road" - 1938
Songs: "Taiga" (lyrics by V. Gusev, from the play by V. Gusev "Glory")
"Love" (lyrics by V. Gusev, from the play by V. Gusev "Glory")
"Song of two comrades" (lyrics by V. Gusev, from the play by V. Gusev "Glory")
“What do we girls miss” (from the film “July 11”, lyrics by A. Churkin)
"Belarusian partisan" (from the film "July 11", lyrics by A. Churkin)
"Let's go, brothers, to be called" (lyrics by A. Churkin)
"Blue Scarf" (lyrics by A. Churkin)
"A Simple Song" (lyrics by A. Prokofiev)
Work on the opera "Friendship" has been stopped
Start 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", lyrics by M. Svetlov)
"Fisherman" (from the film "Heaven", lyrics by M. Svetlov)
“A boat is rushing in the dead surf” (from the film “Heaven”, lyrics by M. Svetlov)
Continuation of work on the ballet "Taras Bulba"
The composition of the opera Polinka (libre by V. Rothko; only the first act was written) - 1940
The end of the ballet "Taras Bulba" (in its first version) - 1941
Songs: “Play, my button accordion” (lyrics by L. Davidovich)
“Budyonny’s meeting with the Cossacks” (lyrics by A. Churkin)
"Evening on the road" (lyrics by A. Churkin) - 1942
Songs: "Higher 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 the sweet heart of the Kuban” (lyrics by V. Gusev)
“The sailor was leaving home” (lyrics by M. Isakovsky)
Work on the opera "Nastya" (based on the story by K. Paustovsky "The Lacemaker
Nastya"; the first act and the first picture of the second act were written) - 1943
Songs: "South Ural" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov, later called "Guards marching"
with new text by A. Churkin)
"The Ballad of Matrosov" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
“A Cossack went to fight” (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
“The girls were 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", lyrics by V. Gusev)
“When you sing a song” (lyrics by V. Gusev)
“Like beyond the Kama, across the river” (lyrics by V. Gusev)
"Miner's table" (lyrics by M. Lvov)
“A stern, sad soldier was walking” (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" (lyrics by S. Fogelson)
“Do not disturb yourself, do not disturb” (to lyrics by M. Isakovsky)
"The Ballad of a Soldier's Dream" (lyrics by A. Prokofiev)
“Our Motherland is Russia” (lyrics by A. Prokofiev)
“Farewell, little white girl” (lyrics by A. Prokofiev)
Nightingales (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
“I didn’t say anything” (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
Beginning of work on the operetta True 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” (lyrics by S. Fogelson)
Sailor Nights (lyrics by S. Fogelson)
"It's time to go-road" (from the film "Heavenly slug", lyrics by S. Fogelson)
“Because we are pilots” (from the film “Heavenly slug”, lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
“About Vasenka” (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Rain" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Asterisk" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
“Far or not far” (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
“Far native aspens” (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
“We haven’t been at home for a long time” (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Our City" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
“Hear me, good one” (lyrics by M. Isakovsky)
The end of the composition of the operetta "True Friend" - 1946
Songs: "Dance-dance" (lyrics by S. Fogelson)
"Song of the Nakhimovites" (from the film "Nakhimovites", lyrics by S. Fogelson)
"Paths-paths" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Suffering" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
“The nights became bright” (lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Song of the Krasnodontsy" (lyrics by S. Ostrovoy)
"Cornflower" (lyrics by A. Churkin)
“A guy is riding a cart” (lyrics by N. Gleizarov)
"Temper" (from the film "The First Glove", lyrics by V. Lebedev-Kumach)
"On the Boat" (from the film "The First Glove", lyrics by V. Lebedev-Kumach) - 1947
Song cycle "The Tale of a Soldier" (lyrics by A. Fatyanov):
"A soldier was walking from a distant land"
"Tell me guys"
"Son" ("Lullaby")
"The accordion sings beyond Vologda"
"Where are you now, fellow soldiers"
"Magnificent".
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"(lyrics by S. Fogelson)
“Man is a man” (“It happens very often in life”, lyrics by N. Labkovsky and B.
Laskin)
“Komsomol farewell” (from the music for the play “The Beginning of the Road”, lyrics by A. Galich)
The beginning of work on the operetta "The Most Treasured" (lib. V. Massa and M. Chervinsky) -
first edition - 1948
The 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 edition of the ballet "Taras Bulba"
1949 Songs: "Student passing" (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 sailing", lyrics by N. Gleizarov)
"Near the native Irtysh" (from the film "Soviet Siberia", lyrics by N. Gleizarov) - 1950
Songs: "Reeds" (lyrics by A. Churkin)
“The steppe path is sleeping” (lyrics by A. Churkin)
"Natasha" (lyrics by M. Isakovsky)
« 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 stand over Leningrad” (lyrics by S. Fogelson) - 1952
Songs: “My friend is a communist” (lyrics by S. Fogelson)
"Azov partisan" (from the radio show "The Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov", lyrics by A. Zorin)
"Lyrical Maiden" (from the radio show "The Sea of Azov", lyrics by A. Zorin)
"March of Young Workers" (from the film "Towards Life", lyrics by N. Gleizarov)
"A Sad Song" (from the film "Towards Life", lyrics by N. Gleizarov)
Completion of work on the operetta "The Most Treasured" (second edition) - 1953
Songs: "Samovar" (lyrics by N. Gleizarov)
"Yolka" (lyrics by N. Gleizarov)
November - end of the score of the second edition of the ballet "Taras Bulba" - 1954
Songs: "Song of the Fighters" (from the play "Son of Rybakov", lyrics by V. Gusev)
"Song of Spring" (from the play "Son of Rybakov", lyrics by V. Gusev)
"Summer Song" (lyrics by N. Gleizarov)
“Song of Angarvaya” (from the film “Dzhigit Girl”, lyrics by M. Volpin)
« Good morning"(from the film "Good Morning", lyrics by V. Solovyov-Sedoy)
“What are the winds to us” (from the film “Good Morning”, lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"Festive" (from the film "All-Union Agricultural Exhibition", lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
“We didn’t know about each other with you” (from the film “All-Union Agricultural
exhibition", op. A. Fatyanova)
"Evening" (from the film "All-Union Agricultural Exhibition", lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
“The steppe is all around” (from the film “All-Union Agricultural Exhibition”, lyrics by N. Labkovsky)
“Lyrical 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 the spacious fields” (from the film “One Fine Day”, lyrics by V. Bokov)
“Complaint” (from the film “One Fine Day”, lyrics by V. Bokov)
Finishing the score of the second version of the ballet "Taras Bulba"
November - the beginning of work on the opera "Love Yarovaya" (suspended in March 1956) - 1956
Songs: "Bullfinch Station" (lyrics by M. Matusovsky)
"March of the Police" (from the film "The Herdsman's Song", lyrics by M. Matusovsky)
“Somehow in the morning of spring” (from the film “The Herdsman’s Song”, lyrics by M. Matusovsky)
“To you, my beloved, I am writing a letter” (from the film “The Horseman’s Song”, lyrics by M. Matusovsky)
"Groom's Verses" (from the film "The Herdsman's Song", lyrics by M. Matusovsky)
“Song of Long Roads” (from the film “In the days of the Spartakiad”, lyrics by M. Matusovsky
"" (from the film "In the days of the Spartakiad", lyrics by M. Matusovsky)
"Serenade" (from the film "She Loves You", lyrics by S. Fogelson)
“Dawn is burning down” (lyrics by N. Gleizarov) - 1957
Songs: "Festival Song" (lyrics by N. Gleizarov)
"Evening Song" (lyrics by A. Churkin)
“If the guys of the whole earth” (lyrics by E. Dolmatovsky)
"Get out your old suitcase" (from the play " Long road", sl. A. Arbuzova)
“Song of Parting” (from the play “The Long Road”, lyrics by A. Arbuzov)
December - the beginning of work on the ballet "Festival" - 1958
Songs: "To an old friend" (lyrics by M. Matusovsky)
"WITH Good morning, Komsomol members ”(lyrics by A. Churkin)
“Road, road” (from the film “The Next Flight”, lyrics by A. Fatyanov)
"The Driver's Song" (lyrics by S. Fogelson) - 1959
Songs: "Great Novgorod" (lyrics by A. Prokofiev)
“Love your plant” (lyrics by A. Churkin)
People's Artist of the USSR (1967)
Hero of Socialist Labor (1975)
Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1959)
Laureate State Prize USSR (1943, 1947)
Awarded 3 Orders of Lenin and the Order of the Red Star
Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy was born on April 25, 1907 in the family of Pavel and Anna Solovyovs in St. Petersburg. His parents were peasants. After serving in the tsarist army, my father left for St. Petersburg, lived in poverty for a long time and took on 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, she knew many Russians folk songs and loved to sing them. These songs played a big role in musical development future composer. Shortly before moving to Staro-Nevsky, Anna got a job as a maid to the famous singer Anastasia Vyaltseva.
First musical instruments, which Vasily learned to play as a boy, were a balalaika (a precious gift from his father) and a guitar. In the summer, Vasya's hair completely burned out from the sun, and his father affectionately called him gray or gray. The yard boys liked the nickname "Grey" and since then Vasily has only been called that.
The cellist of the Mariinsky Orchestra lived in their house. opera house N.Sazonov. It was with his help that Vasily joined the 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 movie theater "Elephant" was opened in house 139, where they played films with the participation of Buster Keaton and Vera Kholodnaya. Noticing a curiosity at the screen - a piano, Vasily begged the projectionist to allow him to try the keys and quickly picked up "The moon shines" by ear. The delighted mechanic allowed him to sit down to the instrument every morning, and Vasily undertook to carry films, helped them "scroll", 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 also accompanied radio gymnastics broadcasts on the radio.
Own musical education Vasily continued at the Third College of Music in the class of Pyotr Borisovich Ryazanov, an outstanding teacher and mentor of many Soviet composers. Solovyov-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 famous singers: Irma Jaunzem in 1935 at the decade Soviet music in Moscow, she sang his song "The Death of Chapaev", Leonid Utyosov sang for the first time his songs "Two Friends Were Serving" and "Cossack Cavalry". On June 22, 1941, the war began, and the very next day the poetess L. Davidovich brought Solovyov-Sedoy poems called "Dear Outpost". They were written before the war and corrected, so that the necessary couplet turned out:
But the evil enemy flock
Above us, like a cloud, soared
Outpost dear
Rose for the Motherland
On July 24, Solovyov-Sedoy composed the melody of this song, came to his friend, the actor Alexander Borisov, they found an accordion player, and on the same evening the song sounded from loudspeakers over the city.
Solovyov-Sedoy's sensitivity to Russian artistic word, especially poetic, was unique.By 1935, there were twenty-four works created by Solovyov-Sedov. Among them was music for the theater, lyric poem for symphony orchestra, pieces for violin and piano, piano concerto. But none of his songs became mass. However, their author was noticed by Dunayevsky, who was able to discern an outstanding musical gift in Solovyov-Sedom.
During the war, Solovyov-Sedoy created many wonderful songs: "Evening on the roadstead", "Vasya Kryuchkin", "What do you yearn for, comrade sailor", "Like beyond the Kama, across the river", "On a sunny meadow", "Do not disturb don't disturb yourself" and other works.
In August 1941, Solovyov-Sedogo, together with the poet Alexander Churkin, was sent to the port, where, like thousands of Leningraders, they pulled logs and cleaned up the territory in order to reduce the risk of fire from incendiary bombs. At the end of a long labor day they sat down to rest on board 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. Quiet music could be heard from it: someone was playing the button accordion. When they went home, the composer said: "Wonderful evening. Worth the song." Upon returning home, Churkin sat down to write poetry, and Solovyov-Sedoy - music. Born three days later new song— "Evening on the raid." The composer and the poet carried her to the house of composers. There the song was found to be too calm, even mournful and, as 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 blockade closed around Leningrad, Solovyov-Sedoy, shortly before that, evacuated to Orenburg, again presented his song to the judgment of his colleagues. They called it "gypsy", and the composer again postponed the song. But in March 1942, it nevertheless sounded and became popular. Here's how it happened. Solovyov-Sedoy, with the theater brigade "Hawk" created by him, gave a concert in a soldier's dugout. The front line was a mile and a half away. There were no more than thirty soldiers in attendance. The concert was already coming to an end when the composer decided to sing "Evening on the Road" himself to the accordion. He accompanied himself, and sang, referring to the fighters:
Sing, friends, because tomorrow is on a hike
Let's go into the predawn fog.
Let's sing more cheerfully, let us sing along
Gray-haired battle captain.
When the chorus sounded for the third time - "Farewell, beloved city!", All the listeners picked it up. The author was asked to dictate the words, and then once again sing the song together with everyone. This has never happened before in the composer's life: people sang his song, which they had never heard before. In a few days, the song spread on all fronts. Her words were transmitted by field telephones signalmen. At night, on the phone, they sang it to the button accordion. The song was sung at the front and in the rear. She became loved by the people.
Solovyov-Sedoy was exacting to the poetic word, since he himself possessed an outstanding literary gift. A number of his songs were composed by him on his own poems. In one of them, he defined the spiritual purpose of the song for a soldier who is ready to look into the eyes of death and defeat it:
Not a joyful song, but a sad motive
Remember dead friends
If you remember your friends, you will win otherwise,
Soldiers are a special people!
We don’t cry from pain, we cry from a song,
If the song reaches the heart.
Vasily Pavlovich considered a meeting in 1942 with the poet Alexei Fatyanov a great event in his life.
The pinnacle of their creativity can be called the most famous song"Nightingales", created in 1943. Fatyanov wrote lyrical poems about nightingales, in which he expressed the unity of man, nature, the living world in a foretaste of the triumph of life over death:
Well, what is war for the nightingale -
The nightingale has its own life.
The soldier does not sleep
remembering the house
And a green garden over a pond,
Where are all the nightingales night sing,
And in that house they are waiting for a soldier.
Fatyanov read the poems to Solovyov-Sedoy, and he came up with music for them. Fatyanovsky's lines evoked dramatic reflections in the composer: "It is always difficult to die. It is doubly difficult 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 a 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 at the forefront. In it, a nationwide feeling was conveyed through personal experience - this was typical for songwriting Solovyov-Sedogo. His songs of the war years became folk, because the folk soil on which they grew was the Russian lyrical song, which is distinguished not only by light sadness, but also by the expanse of free sounding, extraordinary emotional strength.
The post-war years are characteristic for Vasily Pavlovich with the appearance of songs written for the films "Heavenly slug" 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", "It's time to hit the road" and "A guy is riding a cart". And for 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?", Solovyov-Sedoy led a cycle from it, calling it at first "The Return of the Soldier", then already finding a more general, epic name - "The Tale of the Soldier". The cycle was first performed by Claudia Shulzhenko at the Central House of Arts in November 1947.
On March 12, 1950, Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and devoted a lot of time to parliamentary work.
In 1956 he wrote the song "Moscow Evenings". It was one of the five songs that created the musical background of the chronicle-documentary film "In the days of the Spartakiad" about the first Spartakiad of the peoples of the USSR. Solovyov-Sedoy assessed her as another good song- no more. He was genuinely surprised when the song "Moscow Evenings" 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 Evenings" has become a song-symbol of Russia for the whole world. In the piano performance, they sounded at concerts of the famous American pianist Van Clyburn. Famous figure English jazz Kenny Ball made a jazz arrangement of Solovyov-Sedoy's song and released a record called "Midnight in Moscow". When in 1966 the young Soviet vocalist Eduard Khil international competition stage in Rio de Janeiro sang "Moscow Evenings", auditorium picked up the song from the second verse. In 1959, Solovyov-Sedom was awarded the Lenin Prize for the songs "On the Road", "Milestones", "If only the boys of the whole earth", "March of Nakhimov" and "Moscow Evenings".
In the cinema, Solovyov-Sedoy was the author of music for more than fifty films. The composer 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 disease did not prevent him from celebrating his 70th birthday in 1977. Friends, artists came to the composer's house on the embankment of the Fontanka River No. 131, and the composer's anniversary was broadcast on television.
Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy died on December 2, 1979, and was buried on the Literary bridges. He was buried next to his grave in 1982. best friend childhood, actor Alexander Borisov.
Filmed in 2007 documentary"Marshal of Song. Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy".
One of the largest composers in the field of mass Soviet song, Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy was born in 1907 in St. Petersburg, in the family of a janitor. Since childhood, he played by ear, first on the harmony, and then on the piano. In 1929 he was admitted to the Leningrad Music College. two years later, Solovyov-Sedoi was already studying at the Leningrad Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1936 in the class of Professor P. Ryazanov. A number of works by Solovyov-Sedogo belong to the 1930s: the ballet "Taras Bulba", symphonic poem"Partisanism", pieces for piano, music for a number of films and productions, as well as over sixty romances and songs. Even then, the song was the leading genre in the composer's work "The Best of the Songs of the 30s" - "The Death of Chapaev" to the words of Z. Alexandrova and "Taiga" to the words of V. Gusev.
In the years Patriotic War the composer's talent was revealed especially brightly. Solovyov-Sedoi immediately moved into the ranks of the most popular composers: his lyrical and comic songs sounded at the front and rear, often broadcast on the radio. IN post-war years creativity Solovyov-Sedoy reaches a new stage of development. The composer writes music for films, creates a number of wonderful songs. Among them are the courageous soldier's "On the Road" (lyrics by M. Dudin), the popular lyric "Moscow Evenings" (lyrics by Matusovsky), the battle song about the world "If the boys of the whole earth" (lyrics by L. Oshanin), the perky "March of the Nakhimovites" ( words by N. Gleizarov).
"Play my button accordion", "Evening on the road", songs-memories of your beloved, friends, homeland "When you sing a song", "Nightingales", "We haven't been at home for a long time", comic-lyrical songs "Like for Kama for river", "On a sunny meadow". For the creation of these songs, which were widely disseminated among the people, Solovyov-Sedoy was awarded the honorary title of laureate of the Lenin Prize in 1959. IN last years In his lifetime, the composer wrote the ballets Taras Bulba and Russia Entered the Port, the operettas True Friend, The Most Treasured and Olympic Stars. Solovyov-Sedoy died in 1979.
V.P. Solovyov-Sedoy "Moscow Nights"
During the war, there was an urgent need for a lyrical soulful song at the front. The soldiers who fought for the honor and freedom of their homeland could not help but think about home, where they left their parents, children, beloved ... It is in the genre lyric song the great talent of Solovyov-Sedoy manifested itself unusually brightly.
V. Solovyov-Sedoy is a composer of bright lyrical talent. His song "Moscow Evenings", written by him in collaboration with the poet M. Matusovsky, is still the most popular of all lyrical songs post-war period. Her fate is in many ways similar to the fate best songs Dunayevsky in the 30s. It was written in 1956 and sounded for the first time in the movie "In the days of the Spartakiad". However, immediately the song "separated" from the screen. M. Matusovsky's text does not belong to the number of achievements even in the strictly defined framework of "song poetry". And if the hand of an outstanding master musician had not touched them, this text would have left the then versifier products in the sea.
Like many lyrical songs of Nightingale - Sedogo, "Moscow Evenings" does not want to be sung, but sung in an undertone. The "hero" of the song frankly talks about his feelings for his beloved and for his dear heart, his native landscape near Moscow. And all this is very simple, from the depths of the soul.
This melody seems not very complicated: the beginning is in a minor key, the transition to a parallel major, and the triad-chord intonation basis can be found in many songs of those years of versatility.
The beginning of the melody, its first four measures, combine the playing of a minor triad and the purely Russian quarto-fifth trichode of the ending. What follows is a variation of it in parallel major reaching a higher tone. And the subsequent "hysterical" intonation, returning to the main key about old romance but only for a short moment. Emphasizing the melodic peak with its expression, it does not continue further - the melody returns to a wide state and closes with a trichord ending that has already been sounded earlier.
The song achieves the unity of music and text. It is performed dreamily, slowly. Gradually unfolding, the melody reaches its climax, which falls on the words "If you only knew how dear the evenings near Moscow are to me."
The composer very subtly emphasizes these important words for the song. Expressive pauses divide the phrase into three parts, which gives it a thoughtful character: "If you knew ... how dear to me ... evenings near Moscow."
The bright upward movement of the melodic minor at the beginning, the original syncopation in the middle and the smooth rounding of the melody at the end of the phrase also convey the content of the poetic words of the song.
Song creativity Solovyov-Sedoy
SOLOVIEV-SEDOY Vasily Pavlovich
(1907-1979)
Soviet composer V.P. Solovyov-Sedoy (real name - Solovyov) was born on April 12 (25), 1907 in St. Petersburg. He was born into a simple peasant family. His grandfather, Pavel Solovyov, remembered serfdom, the reform of 1861. Father, also Pavel and also a peasant, after serving in the tsarist army went "to the people" - to St. Petersburg. He lived in poverty for a long time and took on any job. Happiness smiled at him when he got a job as a janitor in a house on the Obvodny Canal. The composer's mother Anna Fedorovna is a Pskov peasant woman. In St. Petersburg, where she came to work, she married Pavel Solovyov. He was already working as a senior janitor on Nevsky Prospekt, at 139, when the second son in their family, Vasily, was born. Anna Fedorovna knew many Russian folk songs and loved to sing them. For a long time, before moving to Staro-Nevsky, she worked as a maid at famous singer Anastasia Vyaltseva. A peasant daughter, who herself served as a maid in her youth, Vyaltseva noticed the musicality of Anna Solovyova and, sincerely attached to her, was ready to attach her to the chorus girls. But fate decreed otherwise: Anna had to raise children, be the mistress of the family. Yes, and Pavel strongly opposed his wife's musical career. In the end, Anna left the place at Vyaltseva, having received from her a gramophone and the records she sang as a gift: “If I want, I’ll love”, “Veterochek”, “Gay troika”.
Her love for singing and the ability to sing beautifully, with soul, remained with her for the rest of her life. From his mother and aunt Anastasia, the younger sister of his father, Vasily Pavlovich inherited a love for Russian song. In his declining years, he often admitted: "A peasant chant song is closer to me." His childhood friend, friend of his whole life, Alexander Fedorovich Borisov - National artist USSR, great Russian Soviet actor- He called the janitor's, where the colleagues of the future composer's father gathered, the first music university.
Song creativity Solovyov-Sedoy organically and brightly intertwined in the musical annals of the period of the Great Patriotic War and the post-war period. It was a real revelation not only for a generation of people who know and remember the war, but also arouses interest among young people who draw information about this time from books and memoirs of a few eyewitnesses.
The life of the composer coincided with the heyday of mass song on different stages its development. As a child, he heard the songs of the revolution and civil war. They sounded everywhere and were distinguished by a variety of genres: revolutionary hymns, martial marching songs, fervent biting ditties. Russian folk songs instilled in the future composer respect for Russian folklore, national musical traditions, left their mark and set priorities in all his work.
The song is a fertile area for expressing spiritual psychologism and as a genre has the property of "sociability". She took the most place of honor in the work of the composer, who, nevertheless, wrote operas, ballets, symphonic works, music for dramatic performances and films.
In the 30s. Of all the genres of professional composer creativity of the 20th century, the mass song played a leading role. At that time, all Soviet composers composed songs, especially a large number of them were created by such composers as I. Dunaevsky, Dm. and Dan. Pokrass, Al. Alexandrov, V. Zakharov, A. Novikov and others. Solovyov-Sedoy actively supplements this cohort of composers and, responding to the trend of the time, is looking for his own direction in song art.
During the Great Patriotic War, the composer's original song talent, his confessional lyrics, was truly revealed. It is amazing that something absolutely peaceful entered the culture thanks to the war. At the front, there was an urgent need for a lyrical, sincere song, addressed to the inner world of a single person, and Solovyov-Sedoy, as a sensitive artist, responding to the situation of the time, creates songs-monologues, songs-confessions, songs-interviews of a close circle of friends, songs- memories. These are songs about the human soul in a time of difficult trials. They combined the concepts of feat of arms and spiritual warmth. Let's name some of them: "We haven't been home for a long time", "Evening on the roadstead", "Nightingales"; such songs did not exist before the war.
The war brought a person to new realities. It was important not only to protect the country, but also to preserve the mental health of the nation, to prepare it for the restoration of a peaceful life. The songs of Solovyov-Sedoy most contributed to the successful implementation of this task.
In the lyrical confession of his songs, despondency and sentimental tearfulness are completely absent, which are noticed even in the work of such composers as M. Blanter (“Enemies burned their own hut”) and partly N. Bogoslovsky (tango song “Dark Night”). In my opinion, main feature the song lyrics of Solovyov-Sedogo is a combination of genre-domestic realism with romanticism.
The choice of lyrics for songs testifies to the special creative psychology of the composer in relation to a lyrical song that carries gentle, kind, optimistic ideas. It is necessary to note the syncretism of poetic and musical images in the song lyrics of Solovyov-Sedoy.
In the post-war period, the most famous among the people were such songs as "It's time to go, the road", "Because we are pilots", "If you want to be healthy", etc. They are written with humor and pop catchiness. Also appeared popular lyrical songs “Where are you now, fellow soldiers” (lyrics by A. Fatyanov), “Hear me, good one” (lyrics by M. Isakovsky), “Evening song” (lyrics by A. Churkin). And "Moscow Nights", written in collaboration with the poet M. Matusovsky, are sung all over the world. This song has become the musical emblem of Russia, as well as the Russian "Kalinka".
In June 1941, Vasily Pavlovich worked at the Composers' Creativity House on the Karelian Isthmus. On Saturday evening on the 21st, he listened to the story “If there is war tomorrow” read by Tamara Davydova, and on Sunday morning, together with Ivan Dzerzhinsky, he went to Leningrad for an evening of Soviet songs. Cars full of people were coming towards them in a continuous stream. The war has begun. The composer understood that in a period of severe trials, his work was designed to help the people overcome the hated enemy - fascism. Already on June 24, a new song by Solovyov-Sedoy “Play, my button accordion” was broadcast on the radio to the words of L. Davidovich. She talked about a factory guy who went to the front, to defend the Motherland: “As a friend, we love our Motherland ...” - these simple, sincere words and an open, non-contrast melody, close in character to the melodies of old factory songs, fell in love with the listeners .
At that time, Leningrad lived the life of a front-line city. Each Leningrader gave all his strength to protect him from the advancing invaders - “... On an August evening,” says Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy in his autobiography, “together with other composers, musicians, writers, I worked in the port (they unloaded the forest. - author .). It was a wonderful evening, which, it seems to me, only happen here in the Baltic. Not far away in the roadstead there was some kind of ship, from it the sounds of an accordion and a quiet song were heard to us. We finished our work and listened for a long time to the sailors singing. I listened and thought that it would be nice to write a song about this quiet, wonderful evening, which suddenly fell to the lot of people who might have to go camping tomorrow. I returned from the port with Alexander Churkin, a songwriter, shared my idea with him, and ignited it. I returned to my room, sat down to work, wrote music two days later, for which Sasha Churkin found spiritual words full of light sadness.
The song was soon written, but colleagues and friends did not approve of it, considering it not combative enough, not meeting the requirements of wartime. Only six months later, Solovyov-Sedoy, speaking on the Kalinin front as part of the front-line variety theater "Yastrebok" organized by him, decided to sing "Evening on the Road" to the soldiers in the dugout, accompanying himself on the accordion. From the second verse they began to sing along. “For the first time in my life I felt this incomparable joy when people sing your song with you, which they had never heard before. This incident taught me a lot. I realized that the song should carry such features, such intonations, so that others not only want to sing it, but that they feel the spiritual need for it, ”the composer later said.
The song addressed to the sailors was soon sung by the whole country. Changing the words in their own way, they sang "Evening on the Road" and pilots, and paratroopers, and sailors, and partisans. More than forty years have passed since its creation, and it lives among the people. Its mass distribution for the composer himself was completely unexpected at that time. It can be said that "Evening on the Road" opened a whole series of front-line, soldier's songs of the composer. Each was experienced by him, because he himself saw the battles, in the advanced situation he learned what he was, soviet soldier. And throughout his life, Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy sang and spoke about our warrior as if he were part of the artist's soul.
The composer spent the years of the war, in his own words, "on wheels". He went to the front, performed in dugouts, field hospitals. I met with home front workers, with those who mined coal, built tanks, made shells and bombs. And he continued to write songs. He wrote them during a break between front-line concerts, wrote with numb fingers in dilapidated dugouts, in the bodies of front-line trucks stitched with machine-gun bursts, when the pencil fell out of his hands from severe shaking. He was with the defenders of the Motherland and rightfully considered himself a soldier. Songs of the war years... He wrote more than sixty of them. Severe restraint, the will to win sounded in combat and marching, such as the "Ural marching", "Song of the Brave", "Formidable clouds over the homeland." Filled with drama "The Song of Vengeance", "The Ballad of Matrosov", "What are you yearning for, comrade sailor?" gave birth to hatred for the enemy, called for a feat of arms. A cheerful, perky joke - a faithful companion of a soldier - is present in many works of Solovyov-Sedoy: “Like beyond the Kama across the river”, “On a sunny meadow”, “She didn’t say anything”, “The sailor left home”. Good-natured humor was one of the character traits of Vasily Pavlovich himself.
A composer of great, unique lyrical talent, Solovyov-Sedoy strove to show the general through the personal. He believed that it was impossible to narrow the theme of military songs, devoting them only to military labor. Every soldier, fighting for the Fatherland, remembers his parental home, close, dear people ... And the lyric-patriotic songs of Solovyov-Sedoy went towards people in overcoats, as if in a confidential friendly conversation they warmed their hearts, talked about their home, about Russian nature, filled with hope to return home with victory ... "Nightingales", "Far native aspens", "We have not been at home for a long time", "When you sing a song" - in all these works known to all the people, the composer truthfully and optimistically reflected the wonderful traits of the Russian character - strength, courage, humanity, breadth of soul. “If music is a transcript of feelings, and these feelings are noble, reflect a deep civic principle, then such music will live for a long time, and even after decades it is destined to bring fire from the past, not ashes.” Vasily Pavlovich said this about the songs of the revolution and the civil war. But the same can be said about his songs of the war years.
The first acquaintance of V.P. Solovyov-Sedogo with the poet Alexei Fatyanov, with whom he later collaborated and became friends for a long time, belongs to the harsh military period. The meeting took place in the city garden of the city of Chkalov. A handsome, fair-haired soldier approached the composer, who was performing as part of a theater brigade, and introduced himself as Alexei Fatyanov, a poet, and immediately read his song "Harmonica", lyrical, melodious, with good humor. Everyone liked the song, the composer and the poet agreed on an early collaboration.
At the end of 1944, V.P. Solovyov-Sedoy, after a trip to liberated Leningrad, returned to Moscow. And one morning the door of the hotel room was opened by a military man, whom Vasily Pavlovich, of course, immediately recognized. It was Alexei Fatyanov, who received leave to work with the composer. Fatyanov brought two ready-made texts composed at the front. On the same morning, Vasily Pavlovich wrote music for them. “Nightingales, nightingales, do not disturb the soldiers, let the soldiers sleep a little” - this is how one of the songs began, which later became famous. The first listeners were hotel employees and the general who lived in the next room... Soon Alexei Fatyanov was transferred to the song and dance ensemble of the Baltic Fleet. In the spring of forty-five, the composer and poet, together with the singers, went to the sailors. On the roads of war, in the East Prussian city of Marienburg, they met the long-awaited Victory Day. The war is over, gone. But the military theme did not leave the work of Solovyov-Sedoy. He completes the operetta "True Friend", the action of which takes place during the days of the war. The operetta was staged in Moscow, Leningrad, Kuibyshev. The most successful places in it were the duet of Katerina and Sergey, close in nature to the military song lyrics, the song of grandfather Kuzma and "Lovers are riding on this train." It is noteworthy that in the introduction to III action operetta sounded the melody "Nightingales".
And the songs, inspired by meetings with front-line comrades, born under the impression of their native Leningrad being restored from the ruins, one way or another keep the memory of severe trials. Together with Alexander Churkin, the composer writes a song about Leningrad "Our City", in which grief over recent losses sounds. “Hear me, good one”, “The nights have become bright”, “On the boat” (from the movie “The First Glove”) are addressed to the theme of the return of a soldier to his native home. Songs of Solovyov-Sedoy about sailors and the sea are fanned with romance, such as, for example, “Sailor Nights” (to the words of S. Fogelson), “Golden Lights”.
The joy of a peaceful life in the first post-war years found its place in the composer's work. This is evidenced by the song "My native side" written in the style of free rhythm and "A guy is riding a cart" full of folk humor. Life itself makes Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy think about the fate of his lyrical hero. He shares his thoughts with Alexei Fatyanov: what could, say, a veteran of the battles sing about his brother-soldiers? The composer came up with the key line: "Where are you now, fellow soldiers?". But Fatyanov disposed of the topic in a slightly different way, composing the text on behalf of a soldier who returned to his native village and dreamed of meeting those who shared with him the hardships of wartime. Usually such a fate is very rich in life collisions. This prompted the co-authors to create a vocal cycle of six songs. They called it - "The Tale of the Soldier", there was another name - "Return of the Soldier". The first song - “A soldier was walking from a distant land” tells about the farewell of a warrior to an “alien country”, which is liberated from the fascist yoke. The second - “Tell me, guys” - speaks of a meeting of soldiers who returned to their homeland with village girls. This comic, everyday scene is followed by "Lullaby to the son." In the fourth song - "The accordion sings beyond Vologda" - the lyrical hero, having taken off his soldier's overcoat, sits down at the levers of the tractor. He is pleased with peaceful labor, his native expanses delight. Broadly, singsongly pours this song. The fifth work of the cycle, which later became the most popular of all six, is “Where are you now, fellow soldiers?”. And the cycle concludes with the dance finale “Velichnaya”.
The cycle was conceived as a single whole (A. Fatyanov even composed poetic transitions from song to song), it was performed by such famous masters, like K. Shulzhenko, S. Shaposhnikov. Especially popular among the performers were "Sings an accordion beyond Vologda" and "Where are you now, fellow soldiers?". About the song "Where are you now, fellow soldiers?" the composer recalls: “I know of cases when the second of them - at the request of listeners it was often performed on the radio - helped front-line comrades find each other many years after the victory. And I'm glad that the "seed" of my cycle turned out to be viable.
Of course, one cannot imagine the soldier's "post-war" theme in the songs of V.P. Solovyov-Sedoy without the "Ballad of a Father and Son" (lyrics by E. Dolmatovsky), "Ballad of a Soldier" (lyrics by M. Matusovsky) and, of course, without a song "On the Road", written for the film "Maxim Perepelitsa" to the words of M. Dudin. Each of these songs has its own interesting fate.
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