Fire, Yuri Fedorovich

Yuri Fire (at birth Aria Fire) was born on January 5 (17), 1890 in Kiev , in a Jewish family ^{[1] [2] [3]} . His father, the merchant Shlema (Solomon Markovich) Fire ^[4] , was the owner of a ready-made dress shop; the family lived in their own house on Bibikovsky Boulevard (now Shevchenko Boulevard , No. 3; architect A.K. Krauss ).

In 1906 he graduated from the Kiev College of Music , was a student of K. A. Pyatigorovich ^[5] . In the same year he was admitted to the Moscow Conservatory, but could not obtain residence rights outside the Pale of Settlement ; with the help of F. P. Gorev , who became his successor (hence the patronymic “Fedorovich”), he converted to Orthodoxy and was able to settle in Moscow ^[6] . He studied at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of violin G.N. Dulov , graduated in 1919 . Improved as a conductor with A.F. Arends .

From 1906 he played the violin in various orchestras, in 1909-1910 he took the place of accompanist and conductor of the Riga Opera , in 1914-1915 he was an artist of the Opera Zimin Orchestra in Moscow.

He was admitted to the Bolshoi Theater (Bolshoi Theater) in 1916 as an orchestra artist and accompanist , in 1919 he made his debut as a conductor.

From 1923 to 1963 - permanent conductor of the Bolshoi Ballet. His repertoire includes over 50 ballets, many of which were directed for the first time under his control in the theater. In collaboration with prominent composers and choreographers, he created performances included in the golden fund of the ballet theater. His conducting art was characterized by a deep understanding of the laws of choreography and an invariable sense of style in both classical and modern ballet music.

He has toured with the Bolshoi ballet troupe in the UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, China, the USA and other countries. He directed the ballet troupe of the theater on foreign tours.

The author of memoirs "About myself, about music, about ballet" (1970).

Member of the CPSU (b) since 1941 .

He lived in Moscow in the apartment building MV Sokol on the Kuznetsky Most .

Yuri Fedorovich Fire died on August 3, 1971 in Moscow. He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery (plot number 3).

• Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1934) ^[7]
• People's Artist of the RSFSR (1937)
• People's Artist of the USSR (1951)
• Stalin Prize of the second degree (1941) - for high skill in conducting ballet
• Stalin Prize of the first degree (1946) - for the ballet performance “Cinderella” by S. S. Prokofiev, staged at the Bolshoi Theater
• Stalin Prize of the first degree (1947) - for S. S. Prokofiev’s ballet performance “Romeo and Juliet” staged at the Bolshoi Theater
• Stalin Prize of the second degree (1950) - for the ballet performance “Red Poppy” by R. M. Glier, staged at the Bolshoi Theater
• Order of Lenin (1937)
• Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (1951, 1959)
• Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• Medal “For Valiant Labor. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin "
• Medal “In memory of the 800th anniversary of Moscow”
• Chant du monde record company award for recording the ballet Swan Lake by P. Tchaikovsky.

• 1951 - Grand Concert - Yuri Fedorovich, conductor at a rehearsal

• Russian ballet and its stars / Ed. E. Surits - M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia; Bournemouth: Parkstone, 1998–208 pp., Ill. ISBN 5-85270-135-1

• Biography on the website Belcanto.ru