The life and work of the composer Evgeny Ptichkin

Many know and love the songs "Camomiles Hid" and"Echo of love". However, not everyone knows that these songs were written by the composer Evgeni Ptichkin. And because of the similarity of the song "Camomiles hid" with Russian folk lyric melodies, some people are sure that the authorship of this song belongs to the people.

Biography of Evgeny Ptichkin

The composer was born in Moscow in 1930. At the age of twenty seven, he graduated from the Music and Pedagogical Institute, the composer department. Among the teachers of Evgeny Ptichkin were outstanding Soviet music figures Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin and Nikolai Ivanovich Peiko. After the institute, I studied at the sound engineering courses. The profession of the sound engineer was at that time a piece phenomenon. She demanded a deep knowledge of technology, as well as musical and theoretical disciplines. Therefore after the termination of courses of the young expert with pleasure have accepted to work on radio.

First songs

In the late fifties, he tries himselfwriting variety songs. The first of them were written on the poems of the songwriter Kuznetsov and recorded with the participation of Eugene Ptichkin as a sound engineer. The main characters of these songs were young people working on virgin soil. The song "Where are you, the girls are not timid" and its sequel "Girls are coming" were offered by the young composer of the youth editorial office of the radio station where he worked. The songs immediately fell in love with millions of radio listeners. In the sixties of the twentieth century, Evgeni Ptichkin wrote several cycles of songs in the national spirit, commissioned by the editorial board of folk music. These songs were performed by Valentina Levko together with the folk choir. By the end of the 1960s, the composer started working in films. He wrote about a hundred works that sound more than seventy movies. The most famous films with his songs: "Earthly Love", "Quiet Don", "Fate", "Field". Ptichkin is also the author of music for several animated films, among them "Oh and Ah", "Our friend Pishichita", "Alice in Wonderland" and others.

Other works

Widely popular is theinstrumental music by Evgeny Ptichkin. The film "Two Captains" was remembered by moviegoers not only thanks to the brilliant cast of actors, the captivating plot, but also due to the tremendous music.

The composer was also attracted by the work onworks of large musical forms. Eugene Nikolayevich wrote one opera, several operettas and musicals on the subjects of Russian classical and Soviet literature. In the operetta "Wedding with the General," whose libretto is written based on the work of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, the composer showed a subtle mastery of the art of the comic genre.

Personal life

With his future wife Raisa, a correspondentEvgeny met during an interview. This meeting of a young journalist with a young but already very popular composer turned into love. The couple lived together until the composer's death in 1993. It was Raisa Eugene Ptichkin dedicated one of his most piercing lyrical songs "Echo of Love". She was brilliantly performed by singer Anna Herman.

Often the musician found inspiration in painting, which he always loved very much, often visited art galleries. A large collection of paintings Eugene Nikolayevich collected at home.

His songs were performed by such artists as Eduard Hill, Lyudmila Zykina, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Maya Kristalinskaya and others.

In different years on CDs, several collections of works by Ptichkin were published.

The composer was awarded numerous awards and titles by the Honored and People's Artist of the Soviet Union, and his music will forever remain in the hearts of millions of people of all ages.

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