Concert Concert in memory of Tikhon Khrennikov World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera Theatre - Opera and Concert Hall
Schedule for Concert in memory of Tikhon Khrennikov 2022
Conductor: Maestro Valery Gergiev Composer: Tikhon Khrennikov
Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Concert in memory of
Tikhon Khrennikov
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
The music of Tikhon Khrennikov (1913–2007) –
operas, ballets and musicals – has been performed at our theatre on
a regular basis for many decades. Khrennikov’s symphonies and instrumental
concerti are performed at concerts of the Mariinsky Orchestra. His songs,
frequently heard in films, have become an integral part of Russian musical
life. Tikhon Khrennikov was born in 1913 in the provincial
town of Yelets in the Oryol Governorate. He was the youngest
in a family of ten. From his early years he exhibited outstanding
musical abilities, performing the guitar and mandolin and singing
in his school choir. In the winter of 1927–1928 Tikhon showed his
works to Mikhail Fabianovich Gnessin. This amazing teacher foresaw and foretold
the young musician’s future. At the Gnessin State Musical
College, Khrennikov studied two subjects – piano under Efraim Gelman and
composition under Mikhail Gnessin. After graduating from the Gnessin
Musical College he was accepted as a second year student at the Moscow
Conservatoire (composition class of Vissarion Shebalin). Khrennikov’s piano
teacher at the conservatoire was the great Heinrich Neuhaus. By that
time, Khrennikov had composed a piano concerto that had been performed
in public and broadcast on radio. Gradually the composer’s name gained
international renown. Tremendous success awaited Khrennikov’s music for
the film The Swineherd and the Shepherd. His pre-war and
wartime songs were also popular. One after another, following the war came
the operas Frol Skobeyev (The Rootless Son-in-Law), Mother,
Dorothea, The Golden Calf and The Naked King,
the operettas One Hundred Devils and One Girl and White
Night, the ballets Love for Love and The Hussar
Ballad, music for films, instrumental concerti and romances... Fate
granted Tikhon Nikolaevich Khrennikov a long and productive life. Destiny
decreed that for half a century Khrennikov stood at the helm of
a composers’ organisation – from 1948 as Secretary General and from
1957 as First Secretary of the Board of the Union of Composers of
the USSR. During the worst years of ideological diktat he was forced
to bend to the harsh dogmas of official normative aesthetics and
the infringements of officials on his professional honour and
the merits of musicians. The main proof of his gift as
a composer, however, and the measure of him as a man remains his
music.
Schedule for Concert in memory of Tikhon Khrennikov 2022
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