CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH OF GREAT MUSICIANS: THE WAY TO SUCCESS

ANNOTATION

The global problems of mankind, the crisis in international relations, as well as the radical sociopolitical changes in Russia have a mixed effect on various spheres of human activity, including culture and music. It is important to timely compensate for the negative factors that reduce the "quality" of music education, the "quality" of young people entering the world of music. Russia faces a long struggle with global challenges. It will be necessary to find answers to the coming demographic collapse in our country, a sharp decline in the influx of young personnel into the national economy, the cultural sphere. One of the first people in the art world to face this problem will be children's music schools.

The articles offered to your attention are intended to partially mitigate the influence of some negative factors, including demographic, on musical culture by multiplying the number of young musicians. I want to believe that the stronger motivation of young musicians for success (following the example of the great predecessors), as well as organizational and methodological innovations in the system of music education will give their results.

The peacekeeping potential of music in the interests of easing tensions in international relations is far from being exhausted. Much more needs to be done to enhance inter-ethnic musical ties.

I want to believe that the opinion of the teacher of the children's music school on the ongoing and future changes in the national culture will be perceived by the expert community as timely, not overdue (“The Owl of Minerva flies out at night”) value judgment and in some ways will be useful.

A.M. FILCHENKOV Head of the Guitar Department of the Children's Music School. A.M. Ivanova-Kramskoy

A series of articles in a popular presentation for students of children's music schools and their parents

P R D & S L O V AND E

We, the young, love the solar world around us, in which there is a place for our most cherished dreams, favorite toys and music. We want life to always be happy, cloudless, fabulous.

But sometimes, from the “adult” life, from the mouths of our parents, not always understandable alarming phrases are heard about some problems that can darken the lives of children in the future. Money, military conflicts, starving kids in Africa, terrorism ...

Dads and moms teach us to solve problems, without fights, kindness, peacefully. We sometimes object to them. Is not it easier to achieve your goal with fists? We see many such examples on the screens of our favorite TVs. So, nevertheless, will power or beauty save the world? The more mature we become, the stronger our faith in the Good, in the creative peacemaking force of Music, becomes.

Probably, the rights were science fiction writer Marietta Shaginyan. Talking about the orchestra playing Beethoven’s music on the Titanic deck in terrible moments of the ship’s immersion into the cold ocean abyss, she saw an extraordinary power in music. This invisible force is able to support the world of people in a difficult moment ... We, young musicians, feel that the great works of composers give people joy, brighten up sad mood, soften, and sometimes even stop disputes and conflicts. Music brings peace into our lives. So, it helps the Good in the fight against evil.

The most talented of you has a very difficult and great mission: to reflect our reality, its main, epochal features in music. At one time, Ludwig van Beethoven and other leading figures did this brilliantly. Some composers of the late XIX - early XX centuries. managed to look into the future. They predicted the most powerful tectonic shifts in human life. And some masters, such as Rimsky-Korsakov, managed to look in their music for many centuries to come. In some of his works, he “hid” his instructions to future generations, which he hoped would be able to understand him. They were destined to the path of peaceful harmonious cooperation between Man and the Cosmos.

Thinking about tomorrow, about gifts for a long-awaited birthday, you, of course, think about your future profession, about your relationship with music. How talented I am, can I become a new Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich? I, of course, will diligently study. Our teachers give us more than music education. They teach us how to succeed, to overcome difficulties. But, they say, there is another ancient source of knowledge. Great musicians from the past (and some of our contemporaries) knew the “secrets” of mastery that helped them reach the top of their Olympus. The stories about the young years of great musicians offered to you will help to reveal some of the “secrets” of their success.

“The CHILDREN AND THE YOUTH OF GREAT MUSICIANS: A WAY TO SUCCESS” is dedicated to young musicians

A series of articles in a popular presentation for students of children's music schools and their parents

S U D E F G H A N I E

Young Mozart and music school students: friendship through the ages

Beethoven: the triumph and moans of a great era in music and the fate of genius

Borodin: a good chord of music and science

Tchaikovsky: through thorns to the stars

Rimsky-Korsakov: music of three elements - the sea, space and fairy tales

Rachmaninov: three victories over himself

Andres Segovia Torres: The Revival Of Guitar

Alex Zimakov: nugget, genius, fighter

Z A K L U CH E N E

I want to believe that after reading the stories about the children's and youthful years of great musicians, you are a little closer to solving the mystery of their skill.

We also learned that MUSIC is capable of performing miracles: to reflect in itself, as in a magic mirror, today’s day, to predict, to anticipate the future. And, quite unexpectedly, the works of brilliant musicians are capable of helping people turn enemies into friends, mitigate international conflicts. The ideas of world friendship, solidarity laid in music, sung in 1977. scientists of the "roman club" are still alive.

You, young musician, can be proud of the fact that in the modern world, when international relations have become extremely tense, music sometimes remains almost the last means of a positive peace-loving dialogue. The exchange of concerts, the sound of the great works of world classics softens the hearts of people, elevates the thoughts of the powerful over the political bustle. Music unites generations, epochs, countries and continents. Cherish the music, love it. It gives new generations the wisdom accumulated by mankind. I want to believe that in the future, music, possessing a huge peacekeeping potential, will be able to solve problems of a cosmic scale.

Isn't it interesting for your descendants to learn about the grandiose events of the Beethoven era in a hundred or a thousand years, not only through the dry lines of historical chronicles. The future inhabitants of the planet Earth will want to FEEL that very epoch that has turned the life of the planet for many centuries, to UNDERSTAND it through images and allegories embodied in the music of a genius. Ludwig van Beethoven’s hope that people will hear his plea “to live without wars!” “People are brothers among themselves! Embrace millions! Merge in the joy of one!”

Human thought knows no bounds. She went beyond Earth, rushing to other inhabitants of the Cosmos. For nearly 40 years in space, the interplanetary spacecraft has rushed to the nearest Sirius star system. Earthlings offer extraterrestrial civilizations to come into contact with us. On board this ship is Music, a man’s image and a drawing of our solar system. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Bach's music, Mozart's “Magic Flute” will someday be heard and “tell” aliens about You, your friends, your World. Culture is the soul of humanity ...

By the way, ask yourself a question, will they understand our music? And are the laws of music universal? But what if there is another force of gravity on a distant planet, different from our conditions for the spread of sound, other sound and intonational associations with "pleasant" and "dangerous", dissimilar emotional reactions to significant events, different artistic performances? And the pace of life, metabolic rate, the passage of nerve signals? There is something to think about.

And, finally, why even on one of our planets is “European” music very different, for example, from classical Chinese? The "linguistic" ("linguistic") theory of the origin of music (it is based on the intonational origins of music, in other words, the peculiarities of speech form a special intonation of music) partly explains such differences. The presence in Chinese of four tones of pronouncing the same syllable (there is no such intonation in other languages) gave rise to music, which in past centuries some European musicologists did not understand, and even considered barbaric ... It can be assumed that the melody of the language of aliens will be different from ours . So, extraterrestrial music will amaze us with its unusualness?
Now you understand how interesting and useful it is to study music theory, and in particular, harmony, polyphony, solfege ...?

Before you open the way to the great music. Learn, create, dare! This book will help you. It contains the formula for your success. Try to use it. And your path to the goal will become more meaningful, illuminated by the bright light of talent, hard work, self-sacrifice of great predecessors. Having adopted the experience and mastery of famous masters, you will not only preserve the traditions of culture, which is already a great goal, but also multiply your experience.

Formula for success! Before we talk more about it, we will try to convince you that in order to master any profession, a person needs certain business and personal qualities. Without them, you can hardly become a first-class doctor, pilot, musician ...

For example, a doctor, in addition to possessing professional knowledge (how to treat), must be a responsible person (in his hands health, and sometimes the patient's life), must be able to make contact, get along with the patient, otherwise the patient will not want to tell his own problems frankly. We must be kind, responsive, discreet. And the surgeon must also be able to work quietly in extreme conditions.

The pilot is unlikely to be the one who does not have the highest emotional and volitional stability, the ability to calmly, without panic, make the right decision in critical situations. The pilot must be neat, collected, courageous. By the way, due to the fact that pilots are amazingly calm, calm people, it is accepted, as a joke, to assume that their children are the happiest in the world. Why? The fact is that when a son or daughter shows his dad-pilot a diary with a deuce, the father will never lose his temper, will not explode, will not scream, but calmly begin to understand what happened ...

So, each profession is desirable, and sometimes quite certain qualities are necessary. Teacher, cosmonaut, bus driver, cook, actor ...

Let's go back to the music. Anyone who wants to devote himself to this beautiful art, must certainly be purposeful persistent person. All great musicians possessed these qualities. But some of them, for example, Beethoven, almost immediately became so, and someone (Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov) became much later, in more mature age. Hence the conclusion: it is never too late to become persistent in achieving the goal. "Nihil volenti difficil est” - "For anyone who wants, there is nothing difficult."

And now, answer the question, can children become great, who have no desire, interest in mastering the wisdom of the music profession? “Of course not!”, You will answer. And you will be thrice right. Understanding this, you will receive a pass to the profession. However, it should be noted that not all great masters immediately became passionately interested in music. For example, Rimsky-Korsakov turned his face completely to music only when his craving for art defeated his other passion, the sea.

Abilities, talent. Often they are passed on to young people from their parents, ancestors. Science does not yet reliably know whether everyone can achieve professional skills in any field of human activity? Does genius sleep in all of us? Probably, those are right who, having noticed abilities or talent in themselves, do not calm down on this, but, on the contrary, develop with the power of three times, perfect what is given to it by nature. Genius must work.

Were all greats equally talented? Not at all. So, if Mozart was comparatively easy to compose music, the brilliant Beethoven, oddly enough, wrote his works, spending more time and effort. He repeatedly copied individual musical phrases and even large fragments of his works. A talented Borodin, having written many musical works, almost all his creative life worked on the creation of his masterpiece “Prince Igor”. And did not even have time to fully complete this opera. It is good that he knew how to be friends with many, to help them. And friends generously repay him. They helped to finish the work of his life, when he himself could not do it.

A musician (performer and composer) needs an excellent memory. Learn to train, improve it. The work is born in the head due to the ability of a person “from memory” of a huge number of musical bricks to build that unique palace, unlike any other palace that can be more beautiful than a fairy castle from the world of Disney. Ludwig van Beethoven, due to his imagination and memory, heard every note inside himself, “embedded” it in the right chord, phrase, melody. Mentally listened, does it sound good? He sought perfection. It was an insoluble riddle for everyone around him, how could Beethoven, having lost the ability to hear sounds, was able to continue to compose ingenious music?

A few more lessons from famous artists. It is not uncommon for a young person to begin a long and difficult journey to music with minimal support from outside. It happened that it was not at all. And someone faced misunderstanding on the part of loved ones, even with their opposition to the dream of becoming a musician. Through this, in childhood, Rimsky-Korsakov, Beethoven, and Borodino passed.

More often, well-known musicians in their early years received invaluable help from their relatives, and this was of great benefit. From here follows a very important conclusion. Your parents, even if they do not possess professional knowledge, could, together with your teacher, under his leadership, contribute to your learning, as well as help the development of your positive qualities.

Parents could help you and the music teacher in one more important matter. It is known that familiarity in early childhood with the sounds of music, if it is done delicately, unobtrusively, competently (maybe in the form of a game or a fairy tale), contributes to the emergence of interest in music and friendship with it. Perhaps a teacher will recommend certain pieces for home listening. Great musicians grew out of childhood tunes.

From an early age you often hear words about discipline. Like, without it anywhere! And if I am talented? Why strain in vain? I want - I do, I want - no! It turns out that even if you are a wunderkind and you have seven genius in the forehead, without observing certain rules, the ability to obey these rules, you are unlikely to succeed. You can not do only what you want. We must learn to overcome ourselves, to endure difficulties, to withstand the cruel blows of fate. A positive example of such persistence showed us Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Zimakov.

The real discipline, frankly, not peculiar to children, was formed in young Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin. But Rakhmaninov in these very years was characterized by rare disobedience. And it is all the more striking that Sergei Rakhmaninov, at the age of ten (!), Was able to pull himself together, to mobilize all his will and to overcome himself without any help. Subsequently, he became a model of self-discipline, internal self-discipline, self-control. “Sibi imperare maximum imperium est” - “The highest power is power over oneself”.

Remember the young Mozart. The best of his young years, he meekly, with inspiration, worked tirelessly. His trips with his father to European countries for ten years in a row have played a decisive role in the works of Wolfgang. Consider the words of many great ones: "Labor has become a great delight." All celebrities could not live in idleness, without difficulty. He becomes not a burden if you understand his role in achieving success. And when success comes, with joy you want to do more and more!

Some of you would like to become not only a musician, but also to master some other profession. Someone believes that in the conditions of unemployment it would be useful to get knowledge in some other area. You could be useful unique experience of Alexander Borodin. Recall that he managed not only to combine the profession of a scientist chemist with the vocation of a composer. He became a star among scientists and in the world of music.

If someone wants to become a composer, you can’t do without experience of luminaries here. Take an example from them. Develop a creative imagination, a tendency to fantasize, figurative thinking. But above all, learn to hear the melody inside you. Твоя цель - услышать музыку, родившуюся в твоей фантазии, и донести её до людей. Великие учились интерпретировать, видоизменять услышанную мелодию, преображать её. Старались понимать музыку, "читать" заложенные в ней идеи.

Композитор, как философ, умеет смотреть на мир с высоты звезд. Тебе, как композитору, придется научиться масштабно видеть мир, эпоху. For this, it is necessary, like Beethoven, to study history, literature more deeply, to comprehend the secrets of the evolution of humanity, to become an erudite person. Absorb all the knowledge, material and spiritual, than people are rich. But otherwise, having become a composer, you will be able to talk on equal terms with great predecessors, to continue the intellectual line in world music? Composer thinkers armed you with their experiences. In your hands the keys to the future.

How much and how little else is done in the music! In 2014, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony left the solar system. And although the spacecraft with ingenious music onboard to fly to Sirius is still many, many thousands of years old, the father of young Wolfgang was infinitely right when he told the Great Son of our Earth: “Every minute lost is lost forever ...” Hurry up! Tomorrow, mankind, who has forgotten mutual quarrels, inspired by great music, must have time to figure out a way to speed up, bring closer Contact with cosmic intelligence. Maybe at this level, in the new format, macrocosmic problems will be solved in the unthinkable future. Probably, their number will include the tasks of developing and surviving a highly intellectual life, searching for answers to the threats associated with the expansion of Cosmos. Where there is creativity, the flight of thought, intelligence, there is music. New challenges - new sound of music. Activation of its intellectual, philosophical and intercivilizational-harmonizing role is not excluded.

Hopefully, now you better understand the challenges that young people have to solve for the quiet life of our planet! Learn from brilliant musicians, take an example from them. Create New.

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