Claudius Borisovich Ptitsa ( 1911 - 1983 ) - Soviet Russian choir conductor , choirmaster , teacher . People's Artist of the USSR ( 1966 ).
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| Date of Birth | January 21 ( February 3 ) 1911 | ||||||||
| Place of Birth | Pronsk , Ryazan Province , Russian Empire | ||||||||
| Date of death | January 6, 1983 (71 years old) | ||||||||
| Place of death | Moscow , USSR | ||||||||
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| A country |  Russian Empire β  the USSR | ||||||||
| Professions | choral conductor , music teacher , publicist | ||||||||
| Collectives | Big choir of CT and BP | ||||||||
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Biography
Claudius Bird was born on January 21 ( February 3 ), 1911 in Pronsk (now Ryazan Region , Russia) in the family of a rural doctor (mother is a teacher).
From the age of 10 (1921-1928) he sang in a church choir, played in an amateur orchestra at school, conducted a choir. In 1929-1932 he studied at the Ryazan College of Music (now Ryazan College of Music named after G. and A. Pirogov). During the war years, taught for some time in it.
In 1937 he graduated from the conducting and choral department of the Moscow Conservatory in the class of G. A. Dmitrevsky , in 1940 - graduate school.
In 1936-1938 he was the chief choirmaster of the Opera Studio of the Moscow Conservatory, in 1938-1941 he was the choirmaster of the Moscow Philharmonic , in 1943-1946 he was the choirmaster of the USSR State Choir (now the A. V. Sveshnikov State Academic Russian Choir ).
From 1950 to 1983 - artistic director and chief conductor of the Academic Bolshoi Choir of Central Television and All-Union Radio (from 2005 - the Academic Bolshoi Choir βMasters of Choral Singingβ of the Russian State Musical Television and Radio Center ). He performed more than 20 opera concert productions, performed a large number of cantata-oratorio works by Russian and foreign composers, as well as choral works by Soviet songwriters.
In 1938-1941 and since 1943 he taught at the Moscow Conservatory (since 1956 - professor, since 1960 - head of the department of choral conducting). At the same time in 1946 - 1960 - dean of the faculty of choral conducting of the State Musical Pedagogical Institute. Gnesins (now the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music ), in 1947-1952 - head of the department of choral conducting of the Music College named after Gnesins . Among the students: N. Vetlugina, V. Balashov, L. Grigorov, N. Dobrovolskaya, V. Zhivov, L. Iskhanova, V. Krasnoshchekov , B. Kulikov , A. Osipov, G. Rozhdestvenskaya, E. Sidorova and others [ one]
Author of a number of books and articles, including Essays on the Technique of conducting a choir ( 1948 ) and Masters of Choral Art at the Moscow Conservatory ( 1970 ); valuable are, in particular, his recollections of S. A. Samosud and A. V. Gauk . In 1994, selected articles and interviews compiled a collection of music and musicians.
Chairman of the Moscow Choral Society (since 1959). Deputy Chairman of the All-Russian Choral Society (since 1958).
He died on January 6, 1983 in Moscow. He was buried at Kuntsevsky cemetery .
Awards and titles
- Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1956)
- People's Artist of the RSFSR (1961)
- People's Artist of the USSR ( 1966 )
- Candidate of Art History (1940)
- Order of Lenin ( 1981 )
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor ( 1971 )
- Order of the Badge of Honor ( 1961 )
- Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" ( 1945 )
- Medal "For Labor Distinction" ( 1966 )
- Honorary Member of the Association of American Choir Conductors [2]
- Honorary Citizen of Sochi .
Notes
- β Bird Claudius Borisovich - Choral Dictionary Archived June 12, 2016 to Wayback Machine (unavailable link from 06/14/2016 [1183 days])
- β Claudius Borisovich Bird
Links
- Bird K. B. On music and musicians (inaccessible link) : Book Contents
- Bird Claudius Borisovich - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .