Everyone who watched films shot in the USSR is probably familiar with the work of composer Valery Gavrilin, even if he never heard his name. This ingenious man created many musical works in various genres, but he devoted a fair amount of his life to composing music for Russian cinema.
For the first time, he began to compose music as a schoolboy. He achieved considerable success in this, which invariably surprised adults. Then the young Valery began to master the piano. The childhood of Valery Gavrilin was not easy. His father died in the war, his mother was arrested, so that he, the actual orphan, was assigned to an orphanage. During his life, Valery Gavrilin wrote many articles and publications that were published in newspapers and magazines. But fame did not bring him the pen, but the music.
Creativity V. Gavrilina was rated very highly. For his contribution to the development of music, he received the title of People’s Artist of the RSFSR and the USSR State Prize, an extremely honorable award. In addition to the piano, he played great on the harpsichord. Valery Gavrilin in his youth managed to independently enter the prestigious Leningrad Conservatory. He had no famous teachers, so he prepared on his own, and his talent paved the way for him. Genre boundaries of chamber works by V. Gavrilin are quite difficult to determine, since they are blurred. Musicologists usually attribute his works to the genre of romanticism.
Two heart attacks crippled the composer’s health, as a result of which he only did not live up to his sixtieth birthday. Throughout his life, Valery Gavrilin created music for sixteen Soviet films. In addition to music for films, V. Gavrilin created three operas, four ballets and more than ten magnificent symphonic works.
