Tsybin, Vladimir Nikolaevich

Born in a musical family, his father is the violinist and conductor of the provincial orchestra Nikolai Mikhailovich Tsybin, his mother sang and played the guitar a little ^[2] . After the family moved to Moscow, Volodya's father died of consumption when the boy was 9 years old, and his mother identified him (and later his younger brother Peter) as a student in the brass band of the 12th Grenadier Astrakhan Regiment , where he studied the game from 1886 to 1890 on a piccolo flute , he sang in the choir and learned to read and write. From 1889 ^[3] to 1895 ^[4] he studied at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of flute V. Kretschman . In 1895-1896 - the soloist of the orchestra of the Theater F. Korsch . In 1896 he entered the competition at the Bolshoi Theater as a pikkolist, and after some time he began to sometimes replace the aging Ferdinand Büchner as a solo flutist.

In 1907 he moved to St. Petersburg, where, in connection with the death of Ernesto Köhler, he entered the competition for the vacant seat of the flute soloist at the Mariinsky Theater , having worked there until 1920. In the summer of 1909, he participated in a tour of the theater troupe to Paris, performing at the Chatelet Theater as part of Sergei Diaghilev 's Russian Seasons . Parallel to the work of the flutist soloist in the orchestra, from 1910 to 1914, at the age of 30, he received his second education at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in two departments - composition theory and conducting. He was involved in the composition under the guidance of Alexander Glazunov , reading scores with Anatoly Lyadov , conducting with Nikolai Cherepnin . In the class of Cherepnin V.N. Tsybin studied with S.S. Prokofiev , with whom he shared the prom.

After the death of F. Stepanov in 1914, Tsybin took his place in the Petrograd Conservatory , where he taught the flute class until 1920 (from 1917 - professor). In the summer of 1915 he was director of the Pavlovsky Music Station . In the years 1918-1919 he was an assistant to Ricardo Drigo , chief conductor of the Mariinsky Ballet Orchestra.

In 1920, for family reasons, he moved to Moscow . In the same year, together with his wife Elizaveta Timofeevna (1884-1975), founded in Pushkino in the Berg house ^[5] at his own expense a musical and art orphanage (subsequently, children's music school No. 1). In this music boarding school, many street children received a musical education, some of whom later became professional musicians (flutist A. A. Barannikov, bassoon player V. A. Malinovsky, violinist, and later director of the Moscow Operetta Theater V. P. Efremov and others .). Tsybin remained the head of this educational institution for about 10 years, wrote an opera production for his students, as well as a textbook on the elementary theory of music. From 1921 to 1929 he worked as a soloist at the Bolshoi Theater . After the death of V.V. Krechman, Tsybin from 1923 headed the flute class at the Moscow Conservatory , where he taught until the end of his life. During the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) was the head of the department of wind instruments. In the periods from 1936 to 1941 and from 1944 to 1948, he combined pedagogical work at the conservatory with work at the Military Conducting Department. From 1938 to 1948 he worked as a teacher in the flute class at the music school at the Moscow Conservatory .

Tsybin are the parents of aviation and space designer Pavel Vladimirovich Tsybin (1905-1992).

Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1946).

He was buried at Vvedensky cemetery .

Tsybin’s game has always been distinguished by its inherent beauty of sound, expressiveness, richness of timbre shades, achieved by the brilliant technique of mastering the instrument and creative imagination. Comparing the game of V. N. Tsybin with the game of the outstanding French virtuoso, professor of the Paris Conservatory Paul Taffanel (who visited Moscow in the late 1890s), I. V. Lipaev wrote:

“But we also had an indispensable flutist - V.N. Tsybin, who undoubtedly could be placed next to Taffanel. But there is a difference between them: Tsybin played more meaningfully, meaningfully than Taffanel. The technical side of Tsybin’s game was of course somewhat inferior to Taffanel’s technique. And here again, everything was determined by artistic remarks: all of Tsybin’s technique was organically included in the play, while of Taffanel it was self-sufficient ” ^[6] .

Tsybin toured as a soloist and as part of orchestras in Moscow , Leningrad , Pavlovsk , Kiev , Baku , Rostov-on-Don , Kislovodsk , Sevastopol , Yalta , as well as in Paris ("Russian Season" by Sergey Diaghilev); played under the direction of such conductors as Bruno Walter , Richard Strauss , Sergey Kusevitsky , E. Napravnik , N. Golovanov . He played the flute of the Boehme system, but also owned the fingering of flutes of simple systems (which he played in childhood in the regimental orchestra) ^[7] . Tsybin’s favorite student, Julius Yagudin , wrote about his game this way:

"AT. N. Tsybin, being a great virtuoso, having a magnificent sound, carried away with a creative manner peculiar to him. He invested something of his own in the cadence or passage, Tsybinskoe, which favorably distinguished him from other performers, since rich creative initiative, enormous musicality and imagination could not leave an indifferent listener in the hall ”

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Possessing an outstanding composing talent, Vladimir Tsybin created a large, qualitatively new repertoire for flute: three Concert allegro, Andante, Tarantella, 10 concert etudes for flute, piece, quintet of flutes, quintet, sextet and wind septet, transcription collections exercises. The composer knew very well the specifics of the flute and its capabilities, brilliantly performing his own works. His concerts for oboe, clarinet, horn, trumpet and other instruments are of undoubted artistic value. Vladimir Tsybin is the author of a number of major musical works, among them the Symphony, Ballet Suite, Cantata, symphonic poems, the opera “The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights” (according to Pushkin), the opera-ballet “Flengo” (by V. Hugo) and others works.

He brought up a galaxy of famous flute players. His pedagogical principles, teaching methods are fixed in the textbook “Fundamentals of playing the flute” (1940), as well as in the many pedagogical and methodological works remaining in the manuscripts. Among his students are a number of famous flute players, professors: Nikolai Platonov , Boris Trizno , Julius Yagudin , Alexander Korneev , Grigory Madatov and others.

He began conducting activities in 1893, replacing the bandmaster of the regimental brass band. Since 1894 he worked as regent of an amateur church choir in Moscow. In 1898, he conducted the brass band brass band in Yaroslavl. After studying at the conducting faculty of the St. Petersburg Conservatory (1910-1914), he made his debut as a conductor at the Mariinsky Theater in the opera La Boheme and at the Bolshoi Theater in the ballets Coppelia Delibes and The Magic Mirror by Koreshchenko . During the summer seasons of 1916-1917, he conducted the Saratov Symphony Orchestra. During 1918-1919 he was an assistant to Ricardo Drigo in the orchestras of the ballet composition of the Mariinsky Theater. In the 1920s and 1930s, he regularly conducted the student orchestra of the Moscow Conservatory. In 1930, he conducted the symphony orchestra of the Udarnik movie theater in Moscow.

Symphonic and other major works

For symphony orchestra

• Ballet Suite for Symphony Orchestra (circa 1908)
• Symphony in E Major (1914, thesis)
• Solemn march to the 800th anniversary of Moscow for the symphony orchestra (1947)
• Solemn march dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Red Army for the symphony orchestra
• Arranged by F. Chopin’s romance “Desire” for the symphony orchestra and Schumann's “Carnival” for symphony and string orchestras. (manuscript, RGALI )

Vocal works

• children's opera "The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights" (based on the work of A. S. Pushkin, 1920)
• Cantata "May 1" for soloists, choir and orchestra (1924)
• the opera ballet "Flengo" (musical dramatic episode from the time of the Paris Commune based on the work of V. Hugo "Gavrosh", 1926-1927, Moscow)
• an opera staging of Demyan Poor's "Kura" fable. Clavier. (1928, manuscript, RGALI )
• Anthem October for choir and orchestra

For brass band

• Symphonic poem for brass band - Memories of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. (1944)
• Solemn march to the 30th anniversary of the October Revolution for brass band (1947)
• Bravura March for a brass band dedicated to Gordon.

Flute Compositions

• Arrangements for piano pieces by Tchaikovsky for flute and piano (circa 1923)
• Pieces for flute and piano (“Story”, “Lullaby”, “Album Leaf”, “Melody”, “Minuet”, “Old German Dance”, “Smile of Spring”, “Caprice”, “Theme and Variations”, “ Pioneer March ”,“ Bolero ”,“ In the Crib ”,“ Sketch ”,“ Snow Diamonds ”,“ Vocalise ”,“ Lyric Melody ”,“ Cornflowers ”,“ Youthful Portraits of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven ”,“ Butterfly ”; about 1923)
• 10 concert etudes for flute and piano (N8 Nocturne - circa 1923; N3 Safronov - first edition 1929 , Zimmerman ; entire collection - first edition 1936, Moscow)
• 15 medium difficulty etudes for flute and piano
• Concerto in A Minor (Concert Allegro N1) for flute and piano (1921, first edition of Muzgiz, 1950)
• Concert Allegro N2 for Flute and Piano (1927, first edition 1946, Moscow)
• Andante (and Rondo) for flute and piano (first edition of Muzgiz, 1955, Rondo lost)
• Tarantella for flute and piano (circa 1930, first edition 1947, Moscow)
• 24 Etudes for Flute (circa 1930, not published)
• Concert Allegro N3 for Flute and Piano (1946)
• Concert processing of excerpts from operas Glazunov, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Glinka for flute and piano
• Scherzo in A Major for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and French Horn (1928, manuscript, RGALI)
• Scherzo N2 in C Minor for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, French Horn and Piano (1928, manuscript, RGALI)
• Quartet for wind instruments (not published, manuscript lost)
• Septet for wood and copper wind instruments dedicated to the heroes of World War II (not published, manuscript lost)
• Quintet of Flutes (“Rondo in the Russian Style”) ^[8] (1947, manuscript, RGALI)
• Serenade for flute, violin, cello and harp (not published, manuscript lost)
• 35 Russian songs for flute and fp. (manuscript lost)

Concerts for other instruments

• Concert for clarinet and piano (1929, edition and possibly the first performance by A. Volodin )
• Concert for harp with string quartet (orchestra) (1939, first performance by K. Erdeli )
• Concert for oboe and orchestra (1942, first performance by I.F. Pushechnikov , first part - Muzgiz, 1951, 2 and 3 hours - manuscript, RSAI )
• Concert for trumpet and orchestra (1943, first edition Moscow, 1949)
• Concert for French Horn and Orchestra in E Flat Major (1948, manuscript, RGALI , published in 1952)

Other works

• Romances and songs for high voice and piano to the words of A. K. Tolstoy, M. Yu. Lermontov, K. D. Balmont, F. I. Tyutchev and others (1911-1948; manuscript, RGALI )
• String Quartet (Andante and Scherzo) (manuscript, RGALI )
• Romance for violin and piano (not published, edition of the manuscript and possibly the first performance by A. Yampolsky )
• Suite for violin and piano in 5 parts (not published)
• Dance for violin and fp. (manuscript, RGALI )
• "A sad song." Ballad for cello and fp. (1930, not published)
• Serenade for harp in B flat major (manuscript, RGALI )
• Serenade for violin, cello and piano
• Two Sonatas for French Horn and Piano
• Theme and Variations for Oboe and Piano (1947)
• Scherzo for trumpet and piano
• Romance for trumpet and orchestra
• Ballad for Piano
• Waltz for Piano “Zina's Love” (manuscript, RGALI )

• Bolotin S.V. Encyclopedic Biographical Dictionary of wind musicians. - 2nd ed., Ext. and reslave. - M .: Radunitsa, 1995 .-- S. 306-307. - 4000 copies. - ISBN 5-88123-007-8 .
• Masters of wind instruments at the Moscow Conservatory. - Music, 1979.
• Yagudin Yu. Memoirs of V.N. Tsybin // Memoirs of the Moscow Conservatory . - Music, 1966.
• Barantsev A.P. Masters of flute playing, professors of the Petersburg-Leningrad Conservatory, 1862-1985 - Petrozavodsk, 1990.
• Abanovich A.S. Junior Conductors // Musical Life: Journal. - 2010. - No. 2 - P. 49. (on the relationship of V. N. Tsybin and S. S. Prokofiev)
• Personal file of Professor V.N. Tsybin . Archive MGK them. Tchaikovsky
• Vladimir Nikolaevich Tsybin . GTsMMK them. Glinka . Fund 312.
• Vladimir Nikolaevich Tsybin . Archive RGALI . Foundations 2043 and 653.
• Moscow: Encyclopedia / chap. ed. S. O. Schmidt ; comp .: M.I. Andreev, V.M. Karev. - M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia , 1997 .-- 976 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-85270-277-3 .

• Biography (inaccessible link)
• Tsybin Dynasty
• A.Abanovich "Vladimir Tsybin - Russian Taffanel". Academy of Music, N4-2009
• Biography - Musical Encyclopedia
• Tsybin's textbook “Fundamentals of playing the flute”
• Tsybin, Vladimir Nikolaevich: sheet music of works at the International Music Score Library Project