Vyazmin, Nikolay Nikolaevich

Born November 3, 1919 in Sormovo ( Nizhny Novgorod ), in a working-class family. Mama - Vyazmina Maria Pavlovna. Father - Vyazmin Nikolay Nikolaevich. The family had four children: daughters Sophia and Olga, and sons Nikolay and Victor. The father, according to the stories of N. Vyazmin himself, was at the party work, the mother was a housewife. Parents divorced when Nicholas Jr. was about seven years old, and separated the children; Sophia and Nikolai stayed with her mother.

In 1935, Nikolai graduated from high school, after which until 1939 he worked as a turner at the Krasnoye Sormovo plant. In April 1939, Vyazmin began service in the fleet and at the end of that year was included in the string group of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet ensemble, where he played domra and mandolin. Since 1941, began to play the balalaika. The development of Vyazmin as an artist was greatly influenced by Pavel Necheporenko , who at that time headed the orchestra of the Baltic Fleet ensemble. The war was carried out as part of the Fleet Theater on the front lines in Leningrad and Kronstadt . Was in Leningrad and throughout the blockade . Subsequently became the soloist of the ensemble. The newspaper "Red Fleet" on August 12, 1942 wrote: "The play of N. Vyazmin is distinguished by a rare beauty and power of sound, by the nobility of the performing manner." At the All-Russian Competition of Performing Musicians ( Sverdlovsk , 1943 ), Vyazmin became a student. It was probably in Sverdlovsk that he met his future wife, Judith Binstock, who at that moment was with his mother and sister in evacuation in the Urals. In 1947, Nikolai Nikolaevich Vyazmin got married, and the following year, the daughter Natasha was born in the Vyazminykh family. From 1956 to 1968, Vyazmin was a soloist with the Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments of the All-Union Radio and Television under the direction of Nikolay Rechmensky , and then Vladimir Fedoseyev . Vyazmin was also the accompanist of the balalaika group and occasionally performed solo concerts. He wrote 15 original works for balalaika with piano, bayan and orchestra and a large number of treatments and transcriptions. At the end of the 60s, the famous Soviet composer Serafim Sergeevich Tulikov wrote the melodious “Capriccio for Balalaika with Piano / Orchestra” and dedicated it to Vyazmin N. N. In 1968 , one day after he turned 49 , Nikolai Vyazmin died suddenly in the arms of his daughter from a massive heart attack .

• Coauthor of the collection Balalaika Repertoire. Issue 12: For a balalaika with accompaniment of forteriano. Moscow, Music, 1975
• Co-author of the collection. First steps of a balalaika. Issue 16: With piano accompaniment. Moscow: Music, 1969
• Co-author of the collection. Popular songs arranged for balalaika and piano. Issue 1. Moscow: Music, 1969
• Selected Pieces and Treatments for Balalaika and Piano. M.: Owls. composer, 1981
• Selected Pieces and Treatments for a Balalaika [2 Balalaik] with Accompaniment of Piano, Bayan / Preface by V. Fedoseyev. Moscow: Owls. composer, 1970
• Co-author of the collection. Pedagogical repertoire of balalaika. Issue 2: With piano accompaniment: For music schools. Moscow: Music, 1968

• A. I. Peresad. Vyazmin Nikolai Nikolayevich // Balalaika guide. - M. , 1977.