Aladov is a brief biography

The photo from the archive today is performed by the birth of the People's Artist of Belarus, the famous composer and teacher Nikolai Aladov. Nikolai Ilyich was born on December 21 in St. Petersburg in a family of an official. From the age of nine, he began to engage in music and two years later he began to try his strength in the composition. An important role in the formation of the musical tastes of Aladov was played by his teacher - composer and ethnographer Yakov Prokhorov.

Classes with this teacher were given the opportunity to pass by exterior exams for the full course of the composer faculty of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Subsequently, Nikolai Aladov was engaged in teaching and musical and educational activities. Since the year, the life and work of Nikolai Aladov have been associated with Belarus, with the development of Belarusian musical art.

The composer was invited to pedagogical work at the Belarusian State Musical College, where he taught musical and theoretical disciplines, and later became the head of the educational part. Since the year, he continued pedagogical activities at the Belarusian State Conservatory. There he created the symphony-ballad "on harsh days", the symphonic poem "From the Partisan Diary", as well as songs and romances.

After returning to the year to Minsk, the composer was appointed rector of the Belarusian Conservatory and headed it up to a year. Over the years of pedagogical work, Alada brought up many wonderful musicians. Pupils of his class and students of special theoretical disciplines in different years were famous Belarusian composers Anatoly Bogatyrev, Vladimir Olovnikov, Ivan Kuznetsov, Fedor Podalev and others.

The creative path of Nikolai Aladov lasted more than 60 years. With his works of x, he laid the foundations of the genres of Belarusian professional music. He created the first dramatic and lyrical and psychological symphonies in Belarusian music. In his works, important events for Belarus were reflected. It was the desire to comprehend reality and to convey it in artistic images that the main vector of the work of Nikolai Aladov determined.

The composer paid much attention to the organization of notation in Belarus, participated in folklore expeditions to collect Belarusian folk songs. The composer knew Belarusian folklore well and gave him a new sound. Nikolai Aladov also collected and investigated the Mari, Chuvash and Yakut folklore. The peculiarity of the genre solution is distinguished by its operas.

Based on Belarusian poems, the composer created the comic opera Taras on Parnassus. The theme of the partisan struggle during the Great Patriotic War devoted to the opera Andrei Kosteny, which was set in the year. The main place in the work of Aladov was occupied by symphonic music. The ten symphonies of the composer are a kind of encyclopedia of life in the Soviet period, where they found artistic and generalized embodiment of significant events from the life of the Soviet people.

Nikolai Aladov created the first samples of dramatic and lyric-psychological symphony in Belarusian music. The composer created near the works of various genres: cantata, symphonic works, software suits and overtures, monumental concert fantasies for violin and flute accompanied by an orchestra, choirs and romances, numerous chamber and instrumental works for piano, violin, cello, wind and folk instruments, music for instrumental ensembles of diverse Warehouses, a number of which were fixed in a concert and musical and pedagogical repertoire.

Nikolai Aladov tried himself as a conductor. More than once, to fulfill his works, the composer had to stand up for the conductor's remote control. Not being a professional conductor, the composer led the concert execution on the radio opera Taras on Parnassus, the premieres of the fantasy of the dawn “Disger”, etc. Simultaneously with creative and pedagogical activity, Nikolai Aladov was engaged in social activities.

Since the year, he was a member of the Union of Composers of the BSSR, and in the years he was the chairman of the board. Among representatives of Belarusian professional music, the name of Nikolai Aladov occupies a special place. The composer left a legacy, many genre-style characteristics of which determined the development path of domestic music of the XX century. The creative and social activities of the talented Belarusian composer were marked by two orders of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of the "Badge of Honor" and medals.

In the year, the composer was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of the BSSR. Nikolai Aladov died in the year. A memorial plaque was installed on the house where the maestro lived. In the year, the film "Elder of Belarusian Music" was shot about the composer. In December, the Publishing House "The Belarusian Encyclopedia named after Petrus Brovka" published the book "Composers of Belarus.

Nikolai Aladov. Evgeny Glebov. Sergey Cortes" In the series "Great and famous people of the Belarusian land". The publication included archival documents, manuscripts, photographs from the personal archives of composers.