The premiere of the piano cycle Zaderatsky will be held in the Russian capital

Natalia Kurova. World Premiere of cycle " 24 preludes And fugues for piano, composed by Vsevolod Siderack in the Kolyma Gulag camp in 1937-39 years, will be held on Sunday in the capital of the Conservatory, said the press service of the Moscow Conservatoire.

The execution of the cycle at the same time will be the presentation of his first complete edition. This cycle, which will take place 75 years after its creation, is the 1st experience of the Baroque revival of the genre in the twentieth century, prior to well-known works of Hindemith And Shostakovich. The premiere will take place at the Rachmaninov hall.

the development of such works in the conditions of the convict camps And recognized outstanding musical phenomenon of the First half of the twentieth century - an unprecedented event. Pencil cycle recording made on paper scraps And Telegraph forms which came into the possession of the composer in the camp.

" And in truth, it has no analogues, said Last news the son of a composer and Professor at the Yerevan Conservatory, doctor of arts by Vsevolod Zaderazky.- Dad by That time it was a lot of prisons And was an experienced camp wolf." He managed to find time to record what will be their compositions. My father had calligraphic handwriting, And this also contributed to the preservation of written. The paper is given And the guards, who appreciated the father as the narrator - He was only in the form of " TV ".

According to Zaderatsky Jr., all the work of father And him as a person under the Stalinist regime was taboo. And the beloved disciple Taneyev And Scriabin was thrown into oblivion. What were the causes: in 1915-16, Zaderazky was a music teacher Tsarevich Alexei. From 1916 to 1918 and participated in the fighting on the fields of the First world war. From 1918 to 1920 - the officer in the White volunteer army of Denikin.


in 1920 on the personal order Dzerzhinsky Zaderatsky exiled in Ryazan, where three times arrested And put in jail. In 1926 destroy everything he created. Throughout his life he was deprived of civil rights, magazine And public Performance of works, was a ban on mentioning his name. The composers ' Union, a member of which He was with the founding of the organization, make the name Zaderatsky And his work was hidden And sunk into the unknown.

" Dad lived phenomenal, And the legacy he left, as it turns out, outstanding. But during his life (He died in 1953) his works He never heard, summed up Zaderazky Jr.- the first time his work finds life in the late 70's in the Ukraine, where He lived in the last few years, And Since 2000 it works actively enforced in the European Union And the United States, released a CD With his compositions. Sorry, it's mostly Just piano compositions, And in his repertoire were And Symphony, And Opera. I have published several literary works of the father. Right now published the book " Golden life", in the name of one of the novels.

The current event is the World Premiere of the preludes And fugues of the outstanding composer is a real " explosion ", an event of great importance for the whole musical world." And very long-awaited And expensive for me himself, " said Vsevolod II.

in the execution of the cycle will involve winners of first prizes at the most prestigious music competitions, such distinguished pianists as Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Ekaterina Mechetina, Andrey Gugnin, Nikita Mndoyants, Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev, Fedor Amirov.


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