Valery Pavlovich Afanassiev (born September 8, 1947 , Moscow ) is a Russian - French pianist and conductor, prose writer , poet , essayist .
| Valery Afanasyev | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Valery Pavlovich Afanasyev |
| Date of Birth | September 8, 1947 (71 year) |
| Place of Birth | Moscow |
| A country |  the USSR  Belgium |
| Professions | pianist , conductor , writer |
| Instruments | piano |
| Genres | classical music |
| Awards | [d] ( 1972 ) |
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Biography
He studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Emil Gilels and Yakov Zak .
In 1968 he won the Bach International Competition in Leipzig , in 1972 the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels.
After the second of these victories during a tour of Belgium, he decided not to return to the USSR . He received Belgian citizenship.
Currently lives in France at Versailles .
Music
Afanasyev became widely known in the 1980s thanks to his musical partnership with Gidon Kremer .
In the repertoire of Afanasyev, the greatest interest is the work of Beethoven and Schubert , performed by him with extraordinary expression [1] .
Prose writer and poet
Peru V.P. Afanasyev owns eighteen novels, of which ten are written in English and eight in French., Published in France, Russia and Germany.
Afanasyev created fourteen cycles of poems in English and six poetic cycles in Russian.
He is the author of a compendium of comments on Dante 's Divine Comedy [2] , nine lectures on music in French and several theater plays, in which the author performs at the same time as an actor and as a pianist.
In Russia published his poetry collections:
• Poems 2008 - M., 2010, 160 p. ISBN 978-5-9902558-1-4
• Verses 2010 - M., 2010, 160 p. ISBN 978-5-9902558-2-1
• Poems 2012 - M., 2014, 128 p. ISBN 978-5-9902558-4-5
Notes
- ↑ Musayelyan E. Freelance Artist // Playing from the beginning. Da capo al fine: Newspaper. - M. , 2013. - № 11 (115) . - p . 11 . Archived January 2, 2014.
- ↑ Valery Afanasyev - pianist, writer and philosopher