Serebryakov, Pavel Alekseevich

Childhood. Becoming

Pavel Serebryakov was born on February 15 (28), 1909 in Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd ) into a musical family. Father A. A. Serebryakov , a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory , and the mother of A. I. Serebryakova are singers . In total, the family had five children.

The first music lessons he received from his father and older sister pianist. The civil war and the early death of his father forced him to start working as a teenager: in the choir circle of the Red Army hospital, then as an accompanist of the agitwagon in the Political Department .

In 1923 he graduated from the Tsaritsyn Music School (now the Volgograd Conservatory named after PA Serebryakov ). Then he studied at the Leningrad Conservatory in the piano class of L.V. Nikolaev (he graduated in 1930 ), he also improved in graduate school (until 1932 ).

P. A. Serebryakov as a pianist

Concerted since 1929. For many years, was the personification of the musical life of Leningrad, one of its symbols. He also performed as a solo performer, and in an ensemble with violinists M. I. Vaiman , B. L. Gutnikov , cellist M. L. Rostropovich , singer K. V. Izotova and others. Played under the direction of conductor E. A. Mravinsky , K. P. Kondrashin , A. K. Jansons , N. S. Rabinovich and many others. Among them is the son of pianist Yuri Serebryakov (1939–2016).

Virtuosity, vivid emotionality, spirituality, large-scale creative thinking allowed the pianist to perform original and convincingly both compositions of classical and romantic repertoires, as well as works of modern Soviet composers, many of which were performed by D. D. Shostakovich for the first time. He preferred the works of L. Beethoven , F. Liszt , F. Chopin , R. Schumann , M. P. Mussorgsky , P. I. Tchaikovsky , S. V. Rakhmaninov , S. S. Prokofiev , D. D. Shostakovich .

Conducted extensive concert cycles. Toured in many countries, including Australia , Japan , Turkey , Iran , Brazil .

P. A. Serebryakov as an Educator

From 1932 he taught at the Leningrad Conservatory (in 1938-1951 and 1961-1977 - Rector ), as well as at the Latvian Conservatory (now the Latvian Academy of Music named after Yazep Vitol , 1954-1960). Professor ( 1939 ).

He brought up a number of famous pianists of the republics of the Soviet Union and some foreign countries. Among the students are M. S. Vovchok, I. A. Lazko , E. A. Murina , M. B. Guseva, G. P. Fedorova, E. A. Shafran, N. A. Novik , R. I. Kharadzhanyan , G. O. Korchmar , Z. Adigezal-Zade, L. P. Yushkevich, N. Nurijanyan, A. Kurtev, Y. Shuster, Yu. L. Shcherbinin , S. A. Oskolkov , R. A. Oganyan, B K. Yakimovich ^[1] , E. V. Serkova, V. B. Vasilyev , I. P. Podolskaya ,.

A member of the jury of piano competitions, including the Tchaikovsky International Competition .

Community and educational activities

Member of the CPSU (b) since 1939 . As a convinced communist, he considered it important to introduce the broad masses of the people to the art of music. He was one of the initiators of the revival of the idea of ​​the national conservatory in Leningrad (1961), he taught in it himself, along with his work in the "real" conservatory. He took into account the factor of partisanship in personnel policy, which was natural for the rector at that time, but was perceived as an injustice by some teachers and students-pianists.

Demise

Serebryakov Pavel Alekseevich died on August 17, 1977 in St. Petersburg . He was buried at the Literatorsky footbridges of the Volkovsky cemetery . The tombstone was made by sculptor L. K. Lazarev and architect L. I. Kopylovsky in 1986.

• 1939-1941, 1944-1977 - Borodino Street , 13.

• International Chopin Competition in Warsaw (Honorary Diploma, 1932 )
• 1st All-Union Competition of Performing Musicians in Moscow (2nd Prize, 1933)
• Honored Artist of the Uzbek SSR (1944)
• People's Artist of the RSFSR (1957) ^[2]
• People's Artist of the USSR (1962)
• Order of Lenin (.1961)
• Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (including 1969)
• Order "Badge of Honor"
• Medals

• The Volgograd Conservatory is named after the pianist. In 2012, a bas-relief was opened near her, on Mira Street, where the pianist is depicted behind the instrument. The author of the sculpture is the national artist of Russia V. G. Fetisov . The opening was timed to the 95th anniversary of the conservatory.
• The name of the pianist in 2000 was given to one of the children's music schools in the Central District of St. Petersburg . The modern name is the St. Petersburg Serebryakov Children's Art School.
• In St. Petersburg in 1984, a memorial plaque to the pianist (architect E. M. Poltoratsky ) ^[3] was installed on the house at Borodinskaya Street, 13.
• A competition of young pianists is taking place in Volgograd. In 1993, he received the name of Pavel Alekseevich Serebryakov, and in 1998 he was granted international status. Among the winners and winners of the competition are young pianists from Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, South Korea, Estonia, Japan, USA, Georgia, Latvia, Armenia. Dmitry Rafaelovich Arutyunov, the rector (till 2015) of the Volgograd Conservatory named after. P. A. Serebryakova .

• Volgograd Conservatory. P. A. Serebryakova

• Biography of Pavel Alekseevich Serebryakov on the site of the Volgograd Conservatory named after P. A. Serebryakov
• Site dedicated to the life and work of Pavel Aleksevich Serebryakov.

• Rastopchina N. M. Pavel Alekseevich Serebryakov. - L., 1977.
• P. A. Serebryakov. To the 100th anniversary of the birth. - SPb., 2007.
• Davydov V.P. , Smagina E.V.P.A. Serebryakov and Serebriakovites. - Volgograd, 2010.