Anatoly Bogatyrev Biography

Brief biography. Born in the family of the teacher. The abilities for music were manifested very early. From the age of 8, he begins to study on the piano. The niece of the composer Robert Shuman teaches him to play. In G. as one of his best students in G. in two years, he takes place in the city of Zolotarev, who finished in the city of first success as a composer to A.

Bogatyrev comes for the cantata “The Tale of the Medvedikha” to the poems of A. after the end of the conservatory of the youth composer in the city during the Great Patriotic War A. Bogatyrev worked in the Sverdlovsk Conservatory and lived for some time in Moscow. In August, in this post, he worked before G. Bogatyrev is considered the founder of the modern Belarusian composer school.

He raised a galaxy of Belarusian composers: G. Wagner, E. Zaritsky, I. Luchnok, Yu. Semenyako, S. Cortes, L. Zakhlevny, D. Smolsky and others. Over the 70 years of creative activity A. Bogatyrev, many works of different genres have been written: operas, symphony, oratorios, cantata, concerts, numerous choral, chamber-vocal and chamber-instrumental compositions.

They are distinguished by the relevance of subjects, optimism of concepts, the brightness of figurative characteristics, but unites the image of Belarus, the intonation of the Belarusian folk song. The combination of heroic pathos and soft elegiac, romantic impulse and philosophical, perfect composer technology and the immediacy of the author’s utterance creates an individual style of the composer.

The first major works - the Kantata “The Tale of the Medvedikha” for the verses of A. Pushkin and the opera “In the Polesie's Foreign Affairs” according to the novel “Drygva” by J. Kolas - brought A. Bogatyrev and wide fame. Bogatyrev turns to the topic of the struggle, nobility of the human spirit, faith in victory, creates the cantata to the “Belarusian partisans”, “Belarus”, “Leningraders”.

The composer’s works were a significant event of the musical life of the republic: the opera “Nadezhda Durov”, the Kantata “Belarusian Songs”, “Drawings of the Native Territory”, “Jubilee”, the oratorio “Battle of Belarus”, concerts for the cello, double bass and others. The art of A. Bogatyrev, his works are included in the “Golden Fund” of Belarusian music, determine its worthy place in pan -European culture.

Bogatyrev is the founder of the Belarusian National Composer School, a mentor of several generations of Belarusian composers. He successfully combined creative and pedagogical activity. Wide erudition, good knowledge of the theoretical and practical foundations of composer technology, symphonic and choral writing, the features of musical drama are the unique features of pedagogy A.

The personality of A. Bogatyrev is a significant and unique in Belarusian art. His creative, pedagogical and social activity is an important contribution to the treasury of the national culture of Belarus. For high achievements in composer and pedagogical activity, A. Bogatyrev died on September 19.

He was buried in Minsk in the eastern cemetery. Works: operas - in the goals of Polesie, the Belarusian Opera and Ballet Theater; The Stalin Prize, Nadezhda Durov, ibid.; Kantata - the tale of Medvedikha, Leningraders, Partisans, Belarus, Lenin Glory, Belarusian songs; State. BSSR,; for the orchestra - 2 symphonies,; chamber works - piano trio; works for piano, violin, cello, thrombone; Khoryna the words of Belarusian poets; romances; processing of folk songs; Music for dramatic performances and films, etc.