Ilya Musin Biography

The USSR is called the Patriarch of the Russian conductor school. The ingenious teacher, teacher Yuri Temirkanova, Valeria Gergiev, Semyon Bychkov, Arnold Katz, Theodore Kurentsis and many other world -famous conductors did not initially plan to connect his life with music at all. As a child, Ilya Musin most of all loved not musical instruments, but books. The boy read bored. Even meager lighting could not prevent your favorite pastime.

It was because of his hobby that the future conductor wore glasses from 10 years old. What do I care about the rogue merchant, who, having mixed two or three varieties of different cereals, himself does not know what price to sell the mixture received, and offers to find out to poor schoolchildren? And should we interfere with mismanagement when water is poured into the pool from two pipes, while it flows from the third?

Is it possible to be distracted by such situations when the submarine of Captain Gaterras turned out to be tightly walled up in the ice of the Arctic? The first attempts to introduce Ilya to music turn out to be a failure: “They began to teach me the game on the violin during my stay in the country. All I remembered is the minutes when I stand in the room and pull a bow along the string.

The fly crawls on the nose. I'm trying to blow her. The bow makes a zigzag, and the teacher, tearing a bow from my hands, hits me on the head. And I also remembered that the violin has a deck. ” The boy was friends with music, but the violin, apparently, was not his instrument. Once a second cousin looked at Ilya and at some point played Polka on the piano. That same evening, Ilya repeats the Polish for his father.

He immediately writes Ilya into a music school in the piano class. At 16, Musin enters the St. Petersburg Conservatory. The game on the piano is studied by Nikolai Dubasov and Samaria Savshinsky. Together with study, Ilya visits theaters almost every evening. In only one winter of the first year of life in St. Petersburg, he was in the theater about eighty times.

However, life in Russia at that time was not at all theatrical. In the year, water and sewage froze in the houses, there were interruptions in electricity. I had to engage in a winter coat under the lighting of a home -made “lamp” of ink bubble, kerosene and cotton wool. First, I made soup with cereal and a piece of potatoes from the wobble. It turned out lunch of two dishes.

” In the year in the city, the Petrograd Philharmonic is opened. Ilya spends all his free time there not only at concerts, but also at rehearsals - the student absorbs everything that he manages. Later he will write: "If this were not possible, I could not become a conductor." There is still no warmth at home, work in a cold room affects health, in addition, young Ilya damages the left hand and leaves classes in the second year.

In the fate of Musin, this event was turning. In the year, the Leningrad Conservatory create a department of opera-symphonic conducting.

They study the Russian conductor school. From the first speech, Musin conducted without a score, he knew all the works by heart. Once, when Musin conducted the opera Evgeny Onegin as a funny incident. Already after the entry, Ilya Alexandrovich realized that for some reason flute did not sound. Looking around the orchestra, he did not see a single flutist. The flutists later came, and one of the most important advice appeared in the repertoire of the future teacher Musin: “Before you start conducting, I certainly look around the orchestra and I advise you to do this to all young conductions.” In the year, Musin becomes an assistant by Fritz Stidri, who at that time works with the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra.

Three years later, Musin was appointed chief conductor of the Belarusian Philharmonic Orchestra. He moves to Minsk with his wife and two -year -old son. In the year, the family miraculously saves in a bomb shelter, which is designed only for educational anxiety. With one suitcase, the Musini couple runs from Minsk. First in Mogilev, from there to Voronezh.

We slept on the ground. Once you dined with hot food, once they drank tea. It took 27 days on the road. After the war, the Musins ​​returned to Leningrad, where Ilya Alexandrovich again began to teach at the Leningrad Conservatory. There, Musin will work for more than 60 years, until the end of his days. Ilya Musin developed a whole science of conducting. Use your authority and power to support the young.

Talents especially need it. All my life I have been among the youth, trying to help her, and this gave me strength. " Classes at Musin were so popular that the students lacked places, they sat on the floor and windowsills. Ilya Alexandrovich Musin released several books. One biographical “Life Lessons: Memories of the conductor, as well as two books where he outlined his views on conducting: this is“ Technique of Cearcling ”and“ On the Education of the conductor: Essays ”.

Another book, The Language of Conductor Gesture was published after the death of an outstanding musician. Legal information.