Madatov, Grigory Yakovlevich

He was born in a family of music lovers, where all five children from childhood learned to play various instruments, and almost all subsequently became professional musicians (brother - Sergey Yakovlevich Madatov - violinist, accompanist of the Bolshoi Theater , Nina Yakovlevna Madatova - pianist, professor of the Baku Conservatory ). He received his first music lessons from his mother, who played the piano well. The father gave the boy a flute, and he mastered it.

After graduating from high school, he studied at the Baku Commercial School , where he played in a school orchestra. At the same time he studied at a music school on a flute with a teacher Shefling. In 1914 , he took several lessons from V.N. Tsybin , who was in Baku traveling on tour of the orchestra.

“Each lesson lasted at least an hour and a half. Moreover, V. Tsybin played everything I asked, starting with sound exercises, scales, arpeggios, triads and concert pieces. The two-month daily communication with V. Tsybin was a real pleasure for me and a great school. V. Tsybin’s advice has been preserved in his memory for a lifetime. After the third lesson V. Tsybin recommended me to the orchestra for the third flute, where I was accepted after the tests ” ^[1] .

Soon he entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory in the class of V.N. Tsybin , since 1916 he studied with V. Krechman at the Moscow Conservatory .

From 1919 to 1937 - Soloist of the Azerbaijan Opera and Ballet Theater and taught at the Baku Conservatory . Since 1936 , the year of foundation, - Director of the Baku Philharmonic. Since 1937 - soloist of the Georgian Symphony Orchestra. In Tbilisi, he also organized concerts and gained a reputation as a brilliant administrator. For his active creative and organizational activities in Georgia in those years, he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR.

Since 1944 he moved to Moscow , where he became a soloist in the Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra of the All-Union Radio and taught at the educational institutions named after Gnesins ( academy , school and school ). Among the students, in particular, Marina Vorozhtsova , Nadezhda Selezneva, etc.

He played the Otto Moritz Mönnig flute on a wooden ( ebony ) wood , in Moscow its full, big - “Madatovsky” sound was known. Dmitry Shostakovich wrote about Madatov’s game:

“Madatov is, in my deep conviction, the best flutist in our country. The amazing beauty of sound, rare musicality, soulful performance - all this gives listeners great pleasure ” ^[2] .

He performed and recorded chamber music with David Oistrakh , Lev Oborin , Vera Dulova and many other famous musicians.

In collaboration with Yuliy Yagudin, he released a series of plays from the pedagogical repertoire of the music school from 10 issues and the repertoire of the school from 9 issues, which included plays by foreign, Russian and Soviet composers. The compiler of the collection Orchestral Difficulties for Flute, published in the early 1950s, which includes fragments of symphonic and ballet works by Tchaikovsky and Glazunov .

• Bolotin S.V. Encyclopedic Biographical Dictionary of wind musicians. - 2nd ed., Ext. and reslave. - M .: Radunitsa, 1995 .-- S. 165. - 4000 copies. - ISBN 5-88123-007-8 .