Alexandra Nikolaevna Pakhmutova is a great woman whose amazing biography is admired, because in her life creativity and family are intertwined, but, unfortunately, there are no children. She gained recognition back in the USSR as a composer who could not only feel the music, but also convey the soul of the melody. For her incredible talents, Alexandra Nikolaeva received many awards and titles.
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In 1968 she became a member of the Union of Composers of the USSR, and from 1973 to the organization of the same name in Russia, having received access to new opportunities for her brilliant talent. In 1984 she received an award as the People's Artist of the USSR, having received state prizes in 1975 and 1982.
Pakhmutova, who knows how to take chords on the piano that cause quivering delight in the soul, also worked as a film composer writing melodies for popular films. At the moment, the artist continues to work, delighting her fans with new musical compositions.
Talent Development
Alexandra Nikolaevna was born on November 9, 1929, and at the moment the artist is 88 years old. Born in the small village of Beketovka in the Lower Volga Territory under the USSR, she showed a talent for music very early. In the house of her parents, Nikolai Andrianovich and Maria Ampleevna Pakhmutov, there was a piano, which her parents used repeatedly.
Therefore, even at the age of three, little Sasha regularly opened the lid of the instrument, playing melodies to her taste. The sounds played by the girl on the piano were amazing.
Alexandra Pakhmutova in childhoodAlready at this age, Sasha composed the first waltz melodies, arousing the admiration of adults. And at the age of five she created her first piece for the piano, calling it "The Roosters Sing". Admired by the talent of their daughter, the parents decided to send the girl to study. Therefore, at the age of seven, Alexandra entered a music school, where she studied until 1941. Her development was interrupted by the Great Patriotic War.
The German invaders, going to Volgograd, paved the route of the army's offensive through the village where Alexandra, who was starting to develop her gift, was born and lived. Not wanting to become hostages of the invaders, the girl's parents, together with other residents, fled to Karaganda. There, from the beginning of August 1942, Sasha continued her studies at the Karaganda Musical College.
A year later, the future artist of the USSR entered the Central School at the Moscow State Conservatory. P. I. Chekhov. The brave girl was not afraid of a journey through the whole country, on the territory of which hostilities continued. Having firmly decided to continue her studies and make a career as a composer after the end of the Great Patriotic War, Pakhmutova set off on a long journey, having managed to submit the documents in time.
Pakhmutova in her youth Her teacher was M.V. Vasilyeva, who developed the girl's talent to the highest possible heights. Under the leadership of Vasilyeva, Alexandra entered the circle of young composers at the conservatory. The girl was taught by the great musicians of the USSR Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin and the winner of two Stalin Prizes Nikolai Ivanovich Peiko. A small (149 cm) girl successfully graduated from the conservatory, receiving the title of master for her incredible and huge talent.
Since 1948, Alexandra has been studying at the conservatory, but already at the department of composers and having successfully passed the exams, she receives a diploma with honors in 1953. Not wanting to stop there, having decided that she had not mastered her specialty well enough, she remained at the conservatory in graduate school until 1956.
Finding Recognition
Even during the years of study, the future artist of the USSR worked tirelessly, inventing musical compositions in various genres. Her music was performed by symphony orchestras, and in the theater the play of artists was accompanied by melodies created by the great mind of Alexandra Nikolaevna.
Alexandra Pakhmutova as part of the delegation The music of the greatest composer of the USSR sounded in the best theaters of the country, where plays and ballets were staged. Pakhmutova was not alien to the songs that she wrote with great pleasure, combining them with soulful texts.
The talent has not gone unnoticed. In 1968, being a well-known and married woman, Alexandra Nikolaevna joined a single creative association of creative people - the Order of Lenin, the Union of Composers of the USSR. So the artist not only served for the benefit of her country, but also contributed to the development of music. Her responsibilities included:
- establishing contacts with progressive foreign composers;
- support for aspiring musical figures in the field of culture and assistance in securing copyright for their works;
- education of talented youth on socialist music.
Alexandra Nikolaevna cannot imagine her life without music Throughout her service at the Union of Composers, Alexandra Pakhmutova believed that it was her duty to find talented children who would reveal their talent under her guidance. At the position, Alexandra worked until 1991, which was marked by the dissolution of the Union of Composers due to the collapse of the USSR.
In 1976, a whole minor planet was named after the composer, which was registered by astronomers under the number 1889 in the USA. The Olympic Committee also gave Pakhmutova a great honor. The famous composition "Oh sport - you are the world!" was written by a great woman on special order for international competitions in Moscow in 1980.
The difficult period of the 90s did not affect the creative biography of Alexandra Pakhmutova, for whom the family was on the same level as her career, and the children taken "under the wing" required further education and career development. Therefore, together with her husband, a songwriter, she continued to look for talents and help them start their difficult, but amazing creative path.
A small woman during her lifetime became a great composer Alexandra Nikolaevna Pakhmutova continues to play the piano, not imagining her life without music. But she does it more for herself, extracting new melodies from the instrument, which will be heard by several more generations of viewers. The greatest woman of our time continues to lead a social life, regularly attending concerts and theater performances where her music is played.
Always smiling and joyful, Alexandra Nikolaevna is happy to share her experience with the younger generation of composers. And they treat her with due respect and admire her amazing talents. Therefore, among the new generation of artists grown on the music of Pakhmutova, there are not only domestic musicians, but also foreign stars. The talent of the composer was used in their performances:
- Joseph Kobzon;
- Sofia Rotaru;
- Muslim Magomaev;
- Ludmila Zykina;
- Mikhail Boyarsky and many others.
Pakhmutova became the Laureate of the USSR State Prize It is difficult to enumerate all the bands that play Pakhmutova's music, but they stand out and are remembered by people: Pesnyary, Gems, the Pyatnitsky Folk Choir, S. Namin's groups, as well as English musicians who united in Living Sound.
The beginning of family life
Alexandra Nikolaevna Pakhmutova never hid her personal life, and proudly shared the details of her biography, telling what an amazing family she had, in which children were an inviolable topic. The artist met her husband at the age of 27 at the All-Union radio station on the children's broadcasting channel.
Nikolai Nikolaevich, who works at the Moscow Theater for Young Spectators, read poetry in the Pioneer Dawn program. Alexandra was invited to write musical accompaniment to these lines. Their joint work began with the children's song "Motor Boat".
The famous songwriter Nikolai Nikolaevich Dobronravov, known in the modern world, was only a year older than his chosen one. They were connected not only by music, but also by strong feelings that still cause “white envy” among work colleagues.
Thanks to music, Pakhmutova met her husband, Nikolai Dobronravov. Having met in the spring - already in the fall of 1956, the young people went to the registry office, entering into an official marriage. The wedding took place in August. It was incredibly hot outside, which suddenly gave way to a heavy downpour. Alexandra Nikolaevna was delighted with such weather, because they say that rain at the wedding brings happiness to the newlyweds.
Even then, standing in a long queue at the registry office, the artist drew attention to the list of services provided by the organization. It was then that Alexandra Pakhmutova realized that now she and Nikolai had a family and a common biography, because the spouses would have joint children who would be registered here.
Alexandra Nikolaevna and Nikolai Nikolaevich are happy spouses And later, sometime in the distant future, death registration will take place in this building. Such thoughts greatly frightened Alexandra, and she tried to get them out of her head as soon as possible. She told about her thoughts in an interview much later, having already become an elderly and very famous woman.
The wedding was modest and without inviting guests. The bride did not wear a standard white dress, but a beautiful pink suit, which was sewn by her mother and sister. Then the newlyweds went on a romantic trip to the shores of the Black Sea in Abkhazia. There they stayed with Aunt Dobronravov, who gladly provided the relatives with a room.
One Love
From the first years of marriage, Alexandra and Nikolai tried to find a common language, based on mutual concessions in a given situation. They accepted each other completely, with flaws and virtues, without trying to make adjustments to the already formed personality of the second half. This is precisely the simple and at the same time complex recipe for a family idyll of a musical couple.
Throughout their family life, Alexandra and Nikolai have always been together, representing the embodiment of a single symphony. He is reciting poems and excerpts from a collection of Soviet poets. She is fluttering near the piano with the grace of a butterfly. It would seem that there is no idyll in the world that could connect two creative people.
But it is worth looking at the intelligent and gallant Nikolai and his charmingly strict wife, and you understand - this is true love! It is this incredible feeling that even after 60 years of marriage remained in the family of two creative people. And all because the spouses always looked in the same direction, trying not to waste their lives on empty quarrels.
Throughout their lives, the couple wrote one work - a symphony of family life They appear everywhere together, representing an ideal married couple, for whom feelings filled with tenderness and respect for each other are still alive. Not a single admirer of Alexandra Pakhmutova's work can imagine her biography without a family, where there is only one and only spouse, but the word "children" is prohibited.
Even now, when it is no longer a shame to talk about the mistakes of youth, the strict artist diligently avoids the sore subject. Admirers of her work suggest that the reason for the absence of children is the infertility of one of the spouses. And perhaps, as is often the case with people building a career, artists thought about them too late.
Alexandra Pakhmutova now
Composer Alexandra Pakhmutova as a person, her fascinating biography, children and family are of interest not only to fans, but also to students. Young composers who have just begun their creative path are equal to the artist of the Russian Federation. After all, her achievements are not only a matter of pride for Alexandra Nikolaevna, but a reason for admiration among the younger generation of talented and gifted people with an ear for music.
Not a single creative evening of A. Pakhmutova is complete without flowers She is greeted with joy in the concert hall. Pakhmutova is given flowers and expressed respectful words of gratitude by those students who happened to work under the supervision of such a surprisingly strict but fair teacher.
Alexandra Nikolaevna continues to play. Music is like a breath of fresh air for her. According to the artist and composer, she will stop playing only when she stops breathing. Now the woman continues to work as a member of the Patriarchal Council for Culture, helping the Orthodox Church in the development of youth. Composer Pakhmutova began working in this position in July 2010.
Pakhmutova was awarded high awards In 2011, at the anniversary festival of the Tsaritsyn Muse, Alexandra Nikolaevna was awarded the title of Person of the Year. And in 2014 she received the State Prize of the Russian Federation for cultural and social activities. A year later, Moscow State University awarded the famous teacher with the title of honorary professor.
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✿ღ✿The love story of Pakhmutova and Dobronravov✿ღ✿Nikolai Dobronravov and Alexandra Pakhmutova.
The famous composer Alexandra Pakhmutova and her husband, the poet Nikolai Dobronravov, believe that in order to be happy in family life, one does not need to be “principled”.
The legend of Soviet popular music, composer Alexandra Pakhmutova was born on November 9, 1929 in the village of Beketovka, which today is part of Volgograd. The girl's musical abilities were so obvious that at the age of 3 her parents began to teach her to play the piano. 
It was music that helped Pakhmutova find her “prince” and main partner in her work. They met the young poet Nikolai Dobronravov in the children's broadcasting studio on the All-Union Radio. Pakhmutova wrote music for the programs "Pioneer Dawn", "Attention, to the start!", And Dobronravov read poems of his own composition in these programs. Almost immediately they wrote their first duet - "Motor Boat" - three months later they signed at the registry office.
They did not arrange a magnificent celebration: there was simply no money for this. The bride was wearing a modest pink suit, sewn by her mother. When Pakhmutova and Dobronravov signed, on a hot August day, a downpour suddenly poured. The lovers took this as a good sign.
They went on their honeymoon to relatives in Abkhazia and spent their wedding night on the moonlit paths of the Black Sea. As Pakhmutova and Dobronravov say in their interviews, they consider this vacation, despite all its modesty, the happiest in life. Alexandra Nikolaevna’s aunt prepared delicious Caucasian dishes for them, the newlyweds swam in the sea all day, discussed joint creative plans ... Since then, dozens of joint works have been written, hits that have not become outdated for many years (“Tenderness”, “Old Maple”, “Belovezhskaya Pushcha”, “How young we were”), sports anthems (“Team of our youth” and “A coward does not play hockey”), fervent songs (“The main thing, guys, do not grow old with your heart!”). 
From left to right: composer Oscar Feltsman, Mongolian singer Tsetsegee Dashtsevagiin, poet Nikolai Dobronravov, singer Galina Nenasheva, singer Iosif Kobzon, chairman of the jury, composer Alexandra Pakhmutova, Cuban singer Lourdes Gil and poet Robert Rozhdestvensky. III International Festival of Youth Political Songs in Sochi. 1969
Pakhmutova and Dobronravov are considered an inseparable creative duet and perhaps the most hospitable couple in Soviet art. Famous artists and musicians always came to their house to drink tea and play music.
As Lev Leshchenko tells in his interviews, there is always a surprisingly warm atmosphere in the house of Pakhmutova and Dobronravov, the composer and poet call each other only Kolechka and Alechka. Alexandra Nikolaevna admits that she and Nikolai Nikolaevich do not have any special recipes for family happiness.
They just try not to find fault with each other over trifles and not be “principled”. And Dobronravov, talking about what their family is based on, likes to quote Antoine de Saint-Exupery: “To love is not to look at each other, but to look in the same direction.” This is actually the case for them. Pakhmutova and Dobronravov endured many hardships, but they never separated and fought together for their place in art. Once they admitted in an interview with AiF that they "have a lot of songs that were banned." The song dedicated to the veterans of the First Belorussian Front could not get through to the public. The censorship did not like the words: "Our favorite was Marshal Rokossovsky, and Marshal Zhukov personally led us to Berlin." How is it possible to name and sing of these military leaders, if we have one hero: Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev?! Pakhmutova called "upstairs", cursed, shouted. They found fault not only with words, but also with music. In the song "And Lenin is so young" drums sounded, a frantic rhythm was set. Officials considered the song "crazy" and shelved for a year and a half. Pakhmutova refused to even change the note. And always in all decisions she was supported by her beloved, best friend and creative partner Nikolai Nikolaevich Dobronravov.
It is interesting that the work of Pakhmutova and Dobronravov not only became the basis of their own family happiness, but also controlled the personal lives of other famous artists. Once the romantic relationship between Muslim Magomayev and Tamara Sinyavskaya cracked.
Tamara Ilyinichna was then married to another person and at some point decided not to get divorced for the sake of Magomayev. Then Pakhmutova and Dobronravov, having learned that the stars had quarreled, wrote two songs. One - "Melody" - for Muslim Magometovich: "You are my melody, I am your devoted Orpheus." The second - "Farewell, beloved" - for the diva of the Bolshoi Theater Sinyavskaya: "The whole world is filled with a swan song, farewell, beloved, my unique." As Tamara Ilyinichna and Muslim Magometovich later said in their interviews, these amazing melodies and poignant verses made such a big impression on them that Sinyavskaya divorced and she and Magomayev signed in 1974. Throughout their lives, the legendary couple considered these two songs, written for their failed separation, to be their musical talismans of love.
Looking at Pakhmutova and Dobronravov today, it is hard to believe that they have been married for more than half a century. They look at each other with loving eyes, talk for hours, full of creative plans. The famous couple does not have their own children, but they consider their talented children from poor families who are helped to break through in life. 
Pakhmutova Alexandra Nikolaevna is a real legend of the musical Olympus of the USSR, the author of music for hundreds of songs that at one time sounded like an anthem of the era. The talent of Alexandra Nikolaevna has been accompanying us since childhood, in many Soviet cartoons the music of her authorship sounds (“Just you wait”, “Who is grazing in the meadow?”). Further, her work is actively represented in Soviet cinema, including the cult film "Girls". Pakhmutova is the People's Artist of the USSR, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, multiple winner of state prizes and awards, which once again confirms her importance in the history of music. Her name is forever immortalized in space, and an asteroid discovered in 1968 is named after her.
Height, weight, age. How old is Alexandra Pakhmutova
Alexandra Pakhmutova is a legendary composer, whose songs in the last century were sung by everyone from young to old, and even today her work is not alien to both the older generation and young people.
The huge contribution to the development of Russian music explains the attention paid to Pakhmutova by journalists and bloggers. The latter are interested in: Height, weight, age. How old is Alexandra Pakhmutova? Today you can clearly answer all the questions posed. Alexandra Nikolaevna's height is 149 cm, weight 45 kg, age - 88 years, 63 of which she is happy in a creative and family tandem with Nikolai Dobronravov.
Biography and personal life of Alexandra Pakhmutova
The biography and personal life of Alexandra Pakhmutova do not represent any secret for fans of her work.
Alexandra Pakhmutova was born on November 9, 1929 in Volgograd. She began to get involved in music from birth, probably inherited this quality from her father. Already at the age of 5 she wrote a piece for piano "Roosters sing". After that, the question of self-determination, the search for oneself and one's own business disappeared by itself. Parents sent the girl to a music school, where little Pakhmutova studied before the start of the war. The wartime, although it made some adjustments, did not discourage the desire to make music. Pakhmutova and her family were forced to move to Kazakhstan, where she studied at a local music school.
In 1943, Pakhmutova set off to conquer Moscow. Almost immediately enters the music school at the Moscow Conservatory. He graduated from his alma mater in 1956, defending his postgraduate diploma with V. Ya. Shebalin. At the same time, Pakhmutova manages to fall in love, so much so that for life. In addition to the active development of Pakhmutova as a professional, in 1956 her formation took place as a woman who can and wants to love. While working on the radio, she met the young poet Nikolai Dobronravov. Joint work on radio projects quickly brought young people together, and already on August 6, 1956, they stood at the threshold of the Moscow registry office.
Pakhmutova devoted her entire future life to writing music that can truly be called legendary. Her archive contains hundreds of compositions in collaboration with the leading songwriters of the USSR. Her songs in the 60-90s sound literally everywhere, they are performed from the stage, they sound from the stage, in movies. Perhaps there is not a single famous artist of that era in whose repertoire there would be no songs by Pakhmutova: Lev Leshchenko, Joseph Kobzon, Sofia Rotaru, Alla Pugacheva, Maya Kristalinskaya VIA "Pesnyary" - the tenth, if not the hundredth, part of the galaxy of artists who became famous precisely thanks to songs of Pakhmutova. All of them speak positively about the composer, many note that Pakhmutova practically gave them her talent, asking for mere pennies for her songs, or not demanding a fee at all.
In addition to music, Pakhmutova was engaged in social activities. At various times she occupied responsible positions - she was a member of the Union of Composers of the USSR, she was a deputy of the Supreme Council. She was trusted to decide the fate of the young and talented. So since 1968, Pakhmutova has been a permanent member of the jury of the Red Carnation festival. Today, students themselves line up for her to evaluate their talents - Pakhmutova passes on the experience of young people, being a teacher at Moscow State University. For her activity, both in public life and in the musical field, Pakhmutova was repeatedly awarded both domestic and foreign awards, a collection of which she gladly demonstrates to journalists.
The beginning of the 21st century brought with it a new era in music, new genres and hits, but Pakhmutova's songs are still relevant. She still makes music today, writes new melodies, but rather for herself, for the soul, she teaches at Moscow State University, at the invitation of colleagues she appears at concerts and creative evenings of artists with whose work her life is inextricably linked.
It is noteworthy that some of Pakhmutova's songs are the official anthems of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. In 2011, the authorities of Magnitogorsk approved Pakhmutova's song "Magnitogorsk" as the anthem of the city. A similar decision was made by Yaroslavl officials in 2017.
Family and children of Alexandra Pakhmutova
Alexandra Pakhmutova was born into a family of workers. Both mother and father worked at the local power plant. Her musical inclinations were passed on from her father, he himself mastered playing the balalaika, piano and violin and instilled a love for music in his daughter. In addition to Alexandra, the Pakhmutov family brought up two more daughters and a son. The family and children of Alexandra Pakhmutova are a matter of interest to many for several reasons. On the one hand, the Pakhmutov-Dobronravov family duet is the star duet of the Soviet stage, it was in collaboration with her husband that the best songs were written that were included in the gold fund of the USSR music.
On the other hand, the couple, who have long survived the "golden wedding", never having disagreements, at least in public, have no children. Pakhmutova does not like to be frank on this topic. It is only known that the marriage of Pakhmutova and Dobronravov was registered on August 6, 1956, and since then the spouses have been inseparable either in life or in work. The secret of their success is simple: listen to each other and not find fault with trifles. And Nikolai Dobronravov sees the secret of longevity and strength of marriage in the inviolable implementation of the rule bequeathed to us by Antoine De Saint-Exupery "To love is not to look at each other, but to look in one direction." So the ship called the Pakhmutov-Dobronravov family union has been looking in one direction for almost 65 years, being practically a reference “star family”, where no one pulls the blanket over themselves.
Husband of Alexandra Pakhmutova - Nikolai Dobronravov
The husband of Alexandra Pakhmutova - Nikolai Dobronravov - deserves special attention. With all the talent of his wife, the poet Nikolai Dobronravov did not remain in her shadow. His name is no less clearly inscribed in the history of the Soviet stage. In addition to his wife, he worked with such famous composers as: Arno Babadzhanyan, Evgeny Martynov, Muslim Magamayev. His songs were performed by the leading pop singers at that time: Joseph Kobzon Edita Piekha, Valentina Tolkunova and others. And how many were those who could only dream of getting Dobronravov's song into their repertoire, not to mention getting a bosom friend and comrade in his person.
Nikolai Nikolaevich is a laureate of the USSR State Prize, the owner of many awards and prizes - practically duplicates his wife's award arsenal. Today, like his wife, Nikolai Nikolayevich, he shares his experience with beginning creative people, is an honorary professor at Moscow State University.
Wikipedia Alexandra Pakhmutova
Alexandra Pakhmutova is without a doubt a bright star in the musical sky of the USSR. Her name is forever inscribed in the history of music. There is also Wikipedia Alexandra Pakhmutova on the Internet. The composer's personal page contains all the information about her work, the brightest moments of her life, a complete list of songs by her authorship and filmography.
It is worth noting that, among other things, Alexandra Pakhmutova brought a lot of new things to the cinema, taking part mainly in documentary projects. As for social networks, Pakhmutova never mastered them, therefore all information about her is limited only by Wikipedia and other media resources, into which the composer’s family photos are unlikely to seep, but what is truly dear and close to the heart of this talented woman , is stored only in family photo albums, access to which it opens only to a few. However, on the Internet there is comprehensive information about the contribution of this brilliant woman to the development of art, which is quite enough for a simple layman.
The names of the composer Alexandra Pakhmutova and the poet Nikolai Dobronravov have been so long and firmly connected with each other that it is difficult to imagine that it could ever have been otherwise. The Pakhmutov-Dobronravov family duet is over 50 years old. But honestly! - you look at them, and it seems as if you just met: eyes in love.
She is graceful, lively, with her eyes flashing every now and then, talking about music, all the time flies up to the piano, and he obediently answers her with either a fashionable hit or a fragment of a Shostakovich symphony, depending on what the conversation is about. And it becomes absolutely clear: they are one with the instrument, tear it away from the keys, and it will die, as they die from lack of air.
He is gallant, infinitely intelligent, in the course of a conversation in impeccable literary language, without the slightest use of slang or simply inexpressive words, in support of his thoughts, constantly quoting poets of the Golden, Silver and Soviet centuries by heart. He is drunk with the word like water, of which, as you know, a person consists of 80 percent.
With all her charm, she is strict, internally absolutely logically built, without the slightest negligence, like her own Trumpet Concerto with a symphony orchestra. It is somewhat softer and more romantic.
Both of them cannot hide how much they love each other: respectfully, reverently, but at the same time sensually. You look and believe: yes, she really is his “melody”, and he is her “tenderness”. Yes, it cannot be otherwise if she is Alexandra Pakhmutova, and he is Nikolai Dobronravov.
They met in the spring of 1956 and got married in August. We met on the All-Union Radio, in the 9th children's broadcasting studio. At that time, Nikolai Nikolayevich worked at the Moscow Theater for Young Spectators and read his poems in the programs "Pioneer Dawn", "Attention, to the start!", And Alexandra Nikolaevna wrote music for them. Their joint work began with the children's song "Motor Boat".
“On August 6, on the day of our wedding, there was a terrible heat,” recalls Pakhmutova. - But as soon as we arrived at the registry office in a taxi, it began to rain. They say it's lucky. We were very happy. I remember, while I was waiting in line, I read all the services that the registry office provides: birth, marriage, divorce, death ... It became terrifying. (Laughs.)
We were painted by a lovely woman in a small room. I didn’t have a white dress, and my mother and sister sewed a suit for me - a beautiful, pink one. In the evening we left for Abkhazia.
“We left because we had nowhere to live in Moscow back then,” Nikolai Dobronravov explains. — And they spent their honeymoon there with my aunt Dasha in the Armenian Gorge. It was a happy time! And the most beautiful thing is that Alechka and I spent our first night in the lunar paths of this warm, beautiful Black Sea.
“We don’t have any special recipe for family happiness,” says Pakhmutova. - We just try not to be principled and not to find fault with trifles.
And Nikolai Dobronravov, speaking about his feelings for Alechka, always recalls the words of Saint-Exupery: “To love is not to look at each other, but to look in one direction.”
- Summing up, continue the phrase in one word: our family ... (Alexandra Nikolaevna laughs.)
Unconventional! But in a good sense of the word. And then I somehow joked, a long time ago, I said: “We have an unconventional family, because we live a normal family life.” And one of these days I'm going in a taxi, and suddenly the driver hands me one "yellow" edition, which he had lying among the newspapers. I look, there is my photo on the cover and it is signed - Alexandra Pakhmutova: "I am gay." True, later in the article they quoted my phrase in full and even wrote a lot of good things, but why was it necessary to put such a heading on the cover?
Therefore, Nikolai Nikolayevich and I can only say one thing: our family is unconventional - everything in our life is exactly as it should be and should be, therefore we have lived together for more than fifty years and still have not divorced ...
Alexandra Pakhmutova and Nikolai Dobronravov
Once Alya Pakhmutova, who had just turned three years old, went with her mother Maria Andreevna to the cinema. The film was musical, with a lot of songs and beautiful melodies. Arriving home, the mother went to the kitchen, and the daughter remained in the room, where the piano stood in the most prominent place. Maria Andreevna was preparing dinner, when she suddenly heard that someone was playing, and quite accurately and cleanly, melodies from the film she had just watched. Only Alya could play, but she was only three years old and no one had taught her music before! Maria Andreevna entered the room and saw her daughter standing by the piano. She put a pile of books on a chair, put the girl to the piano and listened to her play for a long time with surprise. Later, his father, a worker at the Beketov sawmill and at the same time a good amateur musician, began to study with Alya. When Alexandra was four years old, she wrote her first musical play, The Roosters Sing. Thus began the career of Alexandra Pakhmutova - one of the most successful and famous Soviet composers, People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the State Prize, author of more than 400 songs and three dozen symphonic works.
Alexandra Nikolaevna Pakhmutova was born on November 9, 1929 in the village of Beketovka near Stalingrad. From the very first years of her life, music became her destiny. Ali had no problem choosing a life path - at the age of six, the girl entered the Stalingrad Music School, where she studied before the start of World War II. “When the guns speak, the muses are silent” - in Stalingrad, besieged by the Nazis and subjected to daily destructive bombardments, there was no question of making music. Classes had to be interrupted, and soon the Pakhmutov family was evacuated to Kazakhstan.
How lucky are people who know from childhood what they will do and can say to themselves: “This is mine, and nothing, no difficulties will make me turn off this path!”. Alexandra Pakhmutova can be safely reckoned among such people. The war was still going on, and she was already on her way to Moscow to continue her studies. In the summer of 1943, Alya was enrolled in the Central Music School for Gifted Children (now the Music School at the Moscow Conservatory). After graduating in 1948, Alexandra entered the Moscow State Conservatory, in the class of the famous composer and excellent teacher, Professor Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin. In 1953, Pakhmutova successfully graduated from the conservatory and entered graduate school. Three years later, Alexandra defended her dissertation on the topic "The score of the opera by M. I. Glinka" Ruslan and Lyudmila "".
“Undoubtedly, without melodic talent, a composer has nothing to do in a song. This is a cruel law, but - the law, - Alexandra Nikolaevna once said. But talent is not a guarantee. How the idea of the song will be embodied, how its thematic grain will develop, how the score will be made, how the recording will be carried out in the studio - all these are not the last questions, and the image is also formed from all this. Indeed, in order to succeed, the composer needs talent. This condition is mandatory, but by no means guarantees recognition. There were thousands of music schools in the Soviet Union; every year they produced thousands of young musicians, including future composers. Many of them were really talented, but only a few achieved real success, became laureates of various competitions and awards. But it's not about titles.
Alexandra Pakhmutova is a unique phenomenon. A commonplace, of course, a stamp, but you can’t say otherwise, the fact remains - people like Pakhmutova are born once in a hundred years, or even only once. “Song of Anxious Youth”, “Geologists”, “The main thing, guys, don’t grow old with your heart!”, “LEP-500”, “Farewell to Bratsk”, “Tired Submarine”, “Hugging the Sky”, “We Learn to Fly Airplanes” , “Tenderness”, “Eagles learn to fly”, “Do you know what kind of guy he was”, “My beloved”, “Old maple”, “Good girls”, “Hot snow”, “Belarus”, “Belovezhskaya Pushcha”, “ Heroes of Sports”, “A Coward Doesn’t Play Hockey”, “Our Youth Team”, “Goodbye, Moscow!”, “And the Fight Continues Again”, “Melody”, “Hope”, “We Can’t Live Without Each Other”, “How young we were” - the whole country knew and sang these songs of Alexandra Pakhmutova.
Poems for the music of Alexandra Pakhmutova were written by many famous poets: Lev Oshanin, Mikhail Matusovsky, Evgeny Dolmatovsky, Mikhail Lvov, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Sergey Grebennikov, Rimma Kazakova. And yet it is difficult to imagine her music without Nikolai Dobronravov's poems. They say that without the poet Dobronravov there would be no composer Pakhmutova, and vice versa. One can argue with this, but they were so harmoniously suited to each other that one of the most successful creative unions in the USSR quickly developed, which soon became a family union. It is interesting that Pakhmutova and Dobronravov, for all their fame and popularity, have always treated the press and journalists, let's say, with caution. Alexandra Nikolaevna and Nikolai Nikolaevich, in fact, do not really indulge journalists, and as for their personal lives, a strict taboo is observed in this matter.
Their fates are very similar. Both were born in November (Nikolai Nikolayevich was born on November 22, 1928 in Leningrad), both in childhood had to learn what war and evacuation are. But if Alexandra Pakhmutova literally from the age of three began to study music and this became the work of her whole life, then Nikolai Dobronravov did not immediately find his path and destiny. After graduating from school in 1942, Nikolai first entered the Moscow City Teachers' Institute, and then the Nemirovich-Danchenko School-Studio at the Moscow Art Theater. After graduating from the studio school, Nikolai Dobronravov worked as an actor at the Moscow Theater for Young Spectators. Here he met the actor Sergei Grebennikov, with whom he wrote several New Year's fairy tales staged at the Pioneer Palaces and clubs in Moscow. At first, this was a kind of entertainment for the actors, but soon Nikolai and Sergey began to professionally engage in literary activities. For the editorial board of musical and children's broadcasting of the All-Union Radio, the authors wrote several plays and dramatizations, the plays "Spikelet - Magic Mustache" and "The Secret of the Elder Brother" were staged in the puppet theaters of the country.
In the mid-60s, Nikolai Dobronravov ends his acting career. At this time, the play “The Lighthouse Lights Up” written by him together with S. Grebennikov (in 1962 it was published by the publishing house “Young Guard”) was successfully staged at the Moscow Theater for Young Spectators, and an opera based on the libretto by Dobronravov was staged at the Kuibyshev Opera and Ballet Theater and Grebennikov "Ivan Shadrin". In 1970, N. Dobronravov became a member of the Writers' Union of the USSR. His novels “Push off, push off!”, “Holidays are coming soon”, “The third is not superfluous”, poetry collections “Gagarin’s Constellation”, “Poems and Songs”, “Taiga Fires”, “Eternal Anxiety”, “Poems” come out of print. But of course, the song occupies an exceptional place in the work of Nikolai Dobronravov. Poems set to music are the core of the poet's life, "and there is no life without fate, and without fate - there is no song," he wrote in the song "Record of My Memory."
The work of Alexandra Pakhmutova and Nikolai Dobronravov is so diverse that their songs were sung by singers so dissimilar in style and manner of performance as L. Zykina, S. Lemeshev, G. Ots, M. Magomaev, Yu. Gulyaev, I. Kobzon, L. Leshchenko , E. Khil, M. Kristalinskaya, E. Piekha, V. Tolkunova, A. Gradsky, T. Gverdtsiteli, Julian, N. Mordyukova, L. Senchina, P. Dementiev, M. Boyarsky, Biser Kirov.
Of course, for the generation of the "sixties", the children of the thaw, who breathed the air of freedom, the Komsomol-party lyrics of Pakhmutova and Dobronravov are a symbol of the "scoop", with which party ideologists tried to replace Western music. Yes, the Beatles never officially appeared in the USSR, but the songs of Pakhmutova and Dobronravov sounded everywhere - on television, radio, pioneer lines, government concerts. But after all, in addition, the people sang their songs, but isn't this an indicator of love and recognition? And the song “Goodbye, Moscow!”, the farewell anthem of the Moscow Olympics-80, was known to the whole world, and not just knew, but cried when the Olympic Bear flew into the Moscow sky to this melody.
The authorities rewarded Alexandra Pakhmutova with titles and prizes (Alexandra Nikolaevna - People's Artist of the USSR (1984), laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1967), laureate of the USSR State Prizes (1975, 1982), Hero of Socialist Labor), but the same authorities for a long time refused the composer to receive normal apartment. Sometimes some songs were banned. The most textbook and absurd example is the "Song of Lenin", written for choral performance. Dissatisfaction was caused by the line "... Ilyich says goodbye to Moscow ...". At the audition, Pakhmutova and Dobronravov were explained that Ilyich could not say goodbye to Moscow, since he was forever in it. “The song of the veterans of the First Belorussian Front” was banned due to the fact that Zhukov and Rokossovsky were mentioned, but there was not a word about Brezhnev, “the main hero of the Great Patriotic War” in stagnant times. In the music of the song "And the fight continues again" they saw fatal motives, because of which the artistic council had serious complaints, and only at the cost of incredible efforts the song was defended. All this, of course, did not bring joy, but Alexandra Nikolaevna always treated such things philosophically. “Not today, so it will come out tomorrow,” she said in an interview, “it’s stupid to sit and accumulate insults when you can have time to compose so much more. Even today, I don’t suffer from lack of demand. We must try to live in the rhythm of the youth.”
And it is not easy to live and create in the rhythm of the youth, although Alexandra Pakhmutova is used to the change of eras. She began to write music under Stalin, then there was a thaw, the Brezhnev era, perestroika. The time has come for change, relations between composers, poets and artists have changed, the music world began to live according to commercial rules. Now no one is surprised that for a song, especially a good one, you have to pay, and pay a lot. But Alexandra Pakhmutova and Nikolai Dobronravov remained true to their principles. “We have never sold songs and will never do that,” Aleksandra Nikolaevna recently said in an interview with the Vecherniy Minsk newspaper. - Yes, and how do you imagine it? We meet the singer, discuss the song, try this and that, drink coffee, talk. And then I say: “Now let's pay”? This is impossible".
Of course, now the songs of Alexandra Pakhmutova and Nikolai Dobronravov appear less and less on television and radio, their work, as they say in the modern musical "party", has passed into the category of "non-format". But this does not frighten the authors, Alexandra Nikolaevna and Nikolai Nikolaevich, as always, look to the future with optimism. They are often asked about their creative plans and what they do. “What else should a composer and a poet do? Of course, we write songs, ”Alexandra Pakhmutova answers. And Nikolai Dobronravov, sitting next to him, as usual, adds: “And we will do this while we are alive ...”.
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