Vladimir Matetskiy: biography and family

Vladimir Matetsky is a Soviet composer whose music is well known and listened to by a large number of music lovers. Known for such hits as "Moon, Moon", "Lavender", "Khutorianka", "Cars". His songs are performed by Sofia Rotaru, Vlad Stashevsky, Jaak Joala, Katya Semenova, "Leisya, song!", "Carnival" and "Funny Guys".

Vladimir Matetskiy: biography

Vladimir Leonardovich was born in Moscow on May 14, 1952. A student of the Soviet pianist Elena Gnessina, Sofia Karpilovskaya, taught a professional game on the keyboard for him, interested in music since childhood. And the young man learned the guitar under the influence of musical compositions of the British band Beatles, whose devoted fan is still.

Then there were the searches for themselves in various rock bands; In the same period, Vladimir began writing his debut songs. The love of music did not prevent the future composer from successfully graduating in 1974 from the Institute of Steel and Alloys in the city of Moscow. In the process of studying he played bass guitar, keyboards as part of the popular rock band "The Successful Acquisition", in the "corporate" repertoire of which he heard several songs written by him. With this ensemble the young composer took part in various rock festivals, for some time in the same composition he worked in Stas Namin's group .

The first successes of the composer

The departure from the "Successful acquisition" of Vladimir Matetsky, who decided to start an independent voyage, determined the beginning of the composer's career; His first works were the songs "No more meeting" (group "Carnival" with Alexander Barykin and Vladimir Kuzmin) and "Fortune" (Araks group). All-Union fame was brought to the composer made with Jury Chernavsky's magnetic album "Banana Islands" (1983), songs from which the whole country sang: "Robot", "Zebra", "Hello, boy Bananan".

In the late 80's Matetsky, fluent in English, participated in the "summit" of composers of the Soviet Union and America; From the Russian side, along with Vladimir was Igor Nikolaev, David Tukhmanov, Igor Krutoy, Vladimir Kuzmin. Following the meeting, an album of joint songs was released; The work of the composer was performed by Anne Murray and Patty Label. After that, Vladimir Leonardovich received a proposal for joint cooperation from Desmond Child, a well-known producer. In Los Angeles, the songs of the Soviet composer were played by Iggy Pop and Alice Cooper.

Legendary "Lavender"

The famous "Lavender" was written in 1985 at the request of the editors of television. The real hit, performed by Yaak Joala and Sofia Rotar, sounded more than a dozen years and became the card of Matetsky, who also wrote the words of the chorus to "Lavender". Then came the "Wild Swans", "Zasentiyabrilo", "It was, but passed", "The Moon, the Moon", "Stars as Stars", "Moon Rainbow", performed by Sofia Rotaru. The collaboration of the composer with this magnificent performer brought joy to both sides and developed into a long lasting strong and real friendship. And they are friends of their families, sometimes they go on holiday together.

The story of the song "Khutorianka", which was dedicated to Sofia Rotaru, is interesting. At first the singer doubted the success of this dynamic and major song, which in those days was a rarity on the stage. But, realizing that the words of this composition come from almost every window, changed its mind.

Fruitful cooperation

For Matetsky, all the compositions are the result of a complex process; The song is not written in a short time - it's a painstaking long work, sometimes taking several months. Among the poets who collaborated with the composer:

• Mikhail Shabrov ("Caravan of Love", "It was, but it passed", "Lavender", "Wild Swans", "In Sochi", "Khutorianka", "Cars");
• Valery Sautkin ("Until the way is over", "Shutov's Kingdom");
• Igor Kochanovsky ("Only with you", "No more meeting");
• Alexander Shaganov ("The Sweets", "Bench in the Park");
• Mikhail Tanich ("Waiting for Love", "Chertanovo", "Yes-Yes-Yes-Yes", "Odessa", "Song of Our Summer").

In the world of the film industry

Vladimir Matetskiy (photo of the composer can be seen in the article) writes not only songs for veterans of the stage. Cooperation with the talented composer proved to be fruitful for the young singer Danko; Radiohit for a long time was the song "Kid".

For many years (since the 60s) Vladimir Leonardovich has been cooperating with the "Time Machine" group and in 2007 became the co-author of her album. "The world abandoned by God" is a product of the composer's creative inspiration, which is included in this collection.

Success in the variety field continued with the writing of music for movies. The first proposal to Vladimir came from the beginning director Vasily Pichul in 1988, who shot the "Little Faith". The feverish pace of work, the conflict with censorship did not prevent this film from becoming popular not only on the expanses of the Soviet Union, but also in the West. Further Matecki's collaboration with the same director continued in the films "Dreams of an Idiot", "In the City of Sochi, Dark Nights" and in the short film "Male Revelations" by Yuri Grymov.

Recognition, demand, success

In 1996, Vladimir Leonardovich was awarded the "Ovation" award for the best song of the year, performed by Vlad Stashevsky "Call Me in the Nights"; Also since 1986 is the winner of all issues of "Song of the Year".

From 2008 to 2012, the composer was the host of the popular musical program "The Words and Music of Vladimir Matetsky" (the radio station "Silver Rain"), along with the musical design of the TVC channel and the morning broadcasts on ORT. He is a permanent member of the jury in music competitions, including in the selection for Eurovision; Was one of the co-authors of the song by Polina Gagarina, performed at this contest. Vice-president of the Author's Council of the Russian author's society. Currently, on the radio wave "Mayak" is a program called "The Studio of Vladimir Matetsky."

Reading Bulgakov and Dostoevsky, music by Wagner and Prokofiev - this is how Vladimir Matetsky conducts his leisure. The composer's family is strong: his wife is Anna, two children - a son and a daughter. From the culinary preferences - Ukrainian borsch.

The motto of the composer: "Nothing can change my world!"