Shostakovich Maxim Dmitrievich Biography

Concert January 15 in the Small Hall. The premiere of concertin for two royals D. Shostakovich was performed by Alla Shoplykova on the left and Maxim Shostakovich shakes his hand to his father. Shostakovich The first musical memoirs of Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich are, of course, with his father's works. At rehearsals and concerts took him from early childhood. In an interview, the musician recalled how he could not fall asleep all night after the premiere of the famous seventh symphony in Kuibyshev Samara, he was only four years old, and he took terrible images of the “invasion” literally.

Shostakovich on his father’s children's plays Maxim began to study the piano game. Especially for his admission, Dmitry Dmitrievich will compose a second piano concert. The secretary of the composer Zinaida Gayamova wrote about the entrance exam: “It is difficult to convey how he was nervous D. He was very worried, and Maxim too. I watched D. D. himself gathered many people and examiners in the hall.

The concert Maxim played very well ... We had to see this picture. Examinant Maxim and the father accompanying him. Nevertheless, I represented the state of D., even then Shostakovich Jr. dreamed not about the pianist's career. He wanted to become a conductor. He clearly formulated this dream for himself in the year, when he attended rehearsals for the premiere of the eighth symphony of Dmitry Dmitrievich.

Conducted by Evgeny Mravinsky. Then, leaving the rehearsal, Maxim Shostakovich thought that he wanted to "connect his life with conducting and with father's music." So it will come out. In the year he receives a diploma, works with the USSR State University, and then with the Grand Symphony Orchestra of the CT and the All -Union Radio, with whom he debuts in the Great Hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic, of course, with the composition of the father - the symphonic poem October.

It was behind the remote control of the orchestra of the All -Union Radio Maxim Shostakovich that Dmitry Dmitrievich in January of the year stands during the premiere of the last, fifteenth symphony. Written near Leningrad, in Repino, she will be heard for the first time in Moscow. The Leningrad premiere will be presented by Evgeny Mravinsky. In the programs of Maxim Shostakovich in the Great Hall, she will also meet more than once, but in a completely different era.

Shostakovich, but already in M, Maxim Dmitrievich conducts the Leningrad premiere of the second violin concert, soloes David Oistrach, who is dedicated to the composition, and from that moment he periodically performs in a large hall with both Philharmonic Orchestras - both ZKR and ASO. Shostakovich and yet his visits to the hall, so significant for his father, and in December GO, received the name of Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich, were not too frequent.

The main place of work of the conductor was Moscow. Here, since the year, he headed the so -called second Symphony Orchestra of the All -Union Radio with the GO - Orchestra of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, with the GO - the State Academic Symphonic Chapel of Russia, with him for the first time in the history of the team went to a concert tour in the country. Shostakovich often Maxim Shostakovich was also invited to personal tour abroad.

According to his own admission, the idea of ​​emigrating arose from him from the first trips: the world behind the “iron curtain” beckoned by the lack of cliches and prohibitions. But during the life of his father, he, of course, could not escape from the country, had no right. Putting the “first composer of the country”, whose fraction of which had so many conflicts with the authorities fell, was unthinkable.

The case of moving to the West will appear only in the year, six years after the death of Dmitry Dmitrievich. Then he, and to all others, of course, seemed to him that it was forever. At the beginning of X, few people occurred to the decision that the decision on emigration can be taken and changed, returning back.

In the years, Shostakovich takes the position of the chief conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and leads the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra. And already in the year he first performs in Russia, including in the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. The first two after the break of the program - June 4 and 5 - he will devote to the memory of Evgeny Mravinsky.

Three years later, the musician will finally return to Russia. He will settle in St. Petersburg, where he was born, but almost never lived before. From this moment on, Maxim Shostakovich will become a permanent guest of philharmonic programs. From GO for a year, he will give 36 concerts here. Shostakovich but still, first of all, Maxim Shostakovich remains an interpreter of his father's heritage.

In his programs there are symphonies, symphonic anthractions from Katerina Izmailova, Stepan Razin’s Execution, Dmitry Shostakovich’s vocal cycles. After the concert, he left an entry in the Golden Book-a Philharmonic album of autographs, in which his father never signed: “The most important and favorite concerts in my life were performances with the Honored Collective of the Republic of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St.

Petersburg Philharmonic named after D. Shostakovich in its famous Great Hall, where my father first heard in childhood in childhood. Symphonic music and where almost all of his most important works sounded for the first time. Shostakovich carried love for this great orchestra through his whole life.I wish you success and prosperity to this outstanding team and its wonderful leader Yuri Temirkanov!

Maxim Shostakovich [February 15]. ”