In memory of Alexei Stanchinsky. Payback for exceptional talent Automatic translate

MOSCOW. An evening of chamber music at the Moscow Conservatory was dedicated to composer Alexei Stanchinsky.

In MGK them. Tchaikovsky hosted the first concert dedicated to the memory of composer and pianist Alexei Stanchinsky. March 21 will mark the 130th anniversary of the gifted musician. He died under mysterious circumstances at the age of 26.

Teachers talked about the exceptional talent of Stanchinsky when he was still a child. One of the first to discern his abilities was the student of Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Grechaninov. Arriving in Obolsunovo, where the Stanchinsky family lived at that time, he, like other students at the Moscow Conservatory, gave lessons to the children of local noblemen. Among them was little Alyosha, eagerly absorbing the basics of musical literacy and composing his first compositions at the age of five. Thanks to Grechaninov, he met Sergei Taneyev, who called Stanchinsky the best of his students. Another teacher, Nikolai Zhilyaev, even saw real works of art in his student sketches.

The musicologist and composer Leonid Sabaneev called his works innovative, brilliant, comparable in level of talent with the works of Prokofiev and Stravinsky. Boris Asafiev spoke about the freshness and insight of his talent. Anatoly Alexandrov considered him brilliantly gifted. He dedicated to Stanchinsky the piano cycle “Former Obsession” and did a lot for the publication of some of his works, which were stored in a manuscript version.

Retribution for exceptional talent - vulnerability and emotional insecurity. A series of sad events - the death of a father, a nervous breakdown caused by worries due to the departure of a loved one, forced separation from a beloved woman and son broke a fragile psyche. Despite a return to creativity and concert activity after a long break caused by mental illness, cooperation with Metner and Scriabin, the tragic ending was inevitable. The 26-year-old composer was found dead on the riverbank in October 1914.

In the concert on March 5, the cycle “10 Scottish songs” to the verses of Robert Burns and the choir “Kolodniki” to verses by Tolstoy (reconstruction of D. Stepanovich), as well as works by Prokofiev, Metner, Scriabin, were performed.

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru