Biography of Glinka - the author of the famous opera "Ivan Susanin"

Russia-Mother spread her expanses on a vast territory. Natural minerals, ores and metals - all this is in a great power. In addition to the values of material, rich in Rus and spiritual values. Music, theater, ballet, literature, architecture - these are the eternal blessings that glorify the country all over the world. From generation to generation, people study the creativity and life of famous people. Many believe that it is the biography of Glinka, Pushkin, Lermontov, Lomonosov and Mandelstam that will answer many questions, the main of which is: "What was the impetus for their creativity in this or that period?"

Russian composer Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

At the beginning of the 19th century, May 20, 1804, in the village of Novospassky in the present Smolensk region, the musical genius Mikhail Glinka, a composer, was born. A brief biography of him is filled with notes of both joy and glory, both of war and revolution. He is one of the few conquerors of the treble clef, which is worshiped all over the world. Despite his education in the typical for that time patriarchal conditions, the boy grew up good-natured and meek. Already in his childhood Michael had a craving for creativity: collecting copper basins from all over the house, he imitated bell ringers at the church bell-towers.

Education

Biography Glinka includes the period of home education (before the winter of 1817) and years of study in the St. Petersburg noble boarding school. It is there that he gives his passion for the study of musical art. In the northern capital, Mikhail Ivanovich took lessons in such instruments as the violin and piano. Later, he began to learn singing, and then the composition. It was in St. Petersburg that Glinka realized his true vocation - to be a musician. In the hostel he studied for four and a half years.

Being a creative man, Mikhail Ivanovich succumbed to the influence of the external environment. The first political event, which changed creativity and, accordingly, the biography of Glinka, is the Patriotic War of 1812 . In the hostel, his teacher was V. Kuchelbecker (future Decembrist), so Mikhail Ivanovich understood the intricacies of politics and easily entered into a dispute on this topic.

Creativity and further life

In the early 20-ies the biography of Glinka received the first musical recordings: his fame as a talented virtuoso violin and piano was known throughout Petersburg. It was then that the author created his first works.

The next event that affected his political views and creative career was the uprising of the Decembrists of 1825. It was then that many people close to the composer were sent into exile, and he himself was often invited for interrogation. In the same year appeared the first masterpiece of the composer - the romance "Do not tempt", the words for which composed E. Baratynsky.

Glinka traveled a lot and under the influence of European musicians, his style changed slightly. Italy and Germany - countries with their color - left a deep mark in the work of Mikhail Ivanovich.

The greatest work of the composer

After returning to his homeland was created the greatest opera "Ivan Susanin", the author of which was the composer Glinka. Biography of the musician has a huge number of works. Unlike the above creation, the opera "Ruslan and Lyudmila", which was presented to the public in 1842, did not have such frenzied popularity. Negative criticism provoked Mikhail Ivanovich to leave for Europe. The composer returned to his homeland in 1847. Three years later, Glinka began teaching singing in St. Petersburg, jointly preparing operas. The composer had a huge influence on the formation of Russian classical music. In the year 56 of the 19th century Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka left Russia and left for Berlin. There, on February 15, 1857, the composer passed away. Creativity of the famous musician has about 20 songs and songs, two operas and several pieces of chamber-instrumental type.