Video gratis Revol Bunin, Viola Concerto, Rudolf Barshai, Viola p 1 of 4
Video de Part 1 Andante-Allegro (part 1 of 2 parts of this movement; total time of this movement is 1257)
Revol Samoilovich Bunin (1924 - 1976) was born in Moscow, on April 6, 1924 in a family of professional revolutionaries His parents named him after the October revolution, Revol (his friends always called him Volik) His father, Samuil Markovich, was the old timer, a member of the Communist Party from before the revolution and was a professor of social economics at of the Moscow Institutes
Volik was 6 when he started to write music and he started by writing scores In the after revolution Soviet Union, there was no specialty paper to write music on, surely, there was no note paper to write scores for a 6 year old, so young Bunin, would sit down and draw lines on a plane paper to make his own notes He composed marches, waltzes, minuets and Polkas
Bunin's mother was always very ill and she passed away when he was 14 His upbringing was entirely in the hands of his father When Volik's mother was dying, she asked him to play a piano He played Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Mussorgsky through the night and in the morning, he had an asthma attack, his first, that later proved fatal for his life
In 1938 Revol started his studies at the Composers' faculty of the Music School of the Moscow Conservatory under professor Ilya Litinsky During his third year of studies he was admitted to the Moscow Conservatory and continued his studies under professor Vissarion Shebalin, who was, at the time, Conservatory's director In 1941, when World War II started in Russia, he was summoned to first work at the military factory in Moscow and, then, was drafted to the active duty, but, taking into account his musical gift, he was stationed near Moscow, so he could continue to attend the classes He was decommissioned, due to his ill health, in March of 1943
In June of 1943 Shostakovich came to teach at the Moscow Conservatory and Revol Bunin was the first student selected by the great composer to be his pupil Bunin wrote in his article With great appreciation in The Soviet Music Magazine (September 1976) - We were more and more conquered by Shostakovich's works Secretly, I was dreaming to become his student Finally, this happy day came on June 7th, 1943, class room number 31 At the piano a friendly man, dressed in a gray-colored modest suit , wearing horn-rimmed spectacles He looked very young, nothing like the old eminent scholars of the Conservatory He asked me in details how old I was, when I started to compose, who were my teachers, if I studied polyphony and so on; he subjected me to a small exam - I had to read a score of Haydn symphony, to tell him what was the difference between a Passacallia and Chiaconne, to give examples, known to me, of a mirror reprise in symphonic allegri and give examples for use of French horns and trumpets in a rare formation (H, Fis) Shostakovich was interested if I read a lot and if I liked Chekhov and Leskov
It happened, that for a while, Bunin was Shostakovich's only student Revol graduated from the Conservatory in 1945 with honors Shebalin (director of the Conservatory) could not forgive Bunin's defection to the class of Shostakovich from his own and did not allow his name to be added to the Golden Board of exemplary students
In 1947 Bunin moved to Leningrad, where he taught music arrangement at the Leningrad Conservatory and assisted Shostakovich as a co-professor of composition Same year his 2nd Symphony was premiered in Leningrad, under the button of a legendary conductor Evgeny Mravinsky
In 1948 he moved back to Moscow and worked as an editor at the State Music Publishing
After infamous government decree, that set stringent regulations on music and art in the former Soviet Union, Shostakovich was dismissed as the professor in the Conservatory Consequently, his assistant, Bunin, has also lost his position and became, for a while, persona non-grate He had to make his living by writing scores for other composers, mainly protegees of other Soviet Republics His music has won on several occasions the Stalin Prize, but Bunin's name didn't appear on these awards nor was mentioned to the selection committee, however, he was always rewarded by the composers for his silence
Revol Bunin died on July 3rd, 1976 in Moscow He was mourned by his wife, his friends and many students He had no children He was never awarded State honors, for he refused to join the Communist Party, in contrast with many of his colleagues
Bunin wrote music scores to 48 motion pictures, cartoons and documentaries He left 45 major compositions, including 9 symphonies, numerous sonatas, quartets, trios, an opera, romances, several concertos for piano, violin His viola concerto (Op 22) was composed in 1953 and dedicated to his close friend, famed violist, Rudolf Barshai
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