Vustin, Alexander Kuzmich

Alexander Wustin began to compose music in 1952 , but believes that only in 1972 he found his own individual composer's style. In 1957 - 1961 he was engaged in composition with Grigory Samuilovich Frid . In 1969 he graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory in the class of Vladimir Fere , worked as an editor on the radio, and then in the publishing house "Soviet Composer". Vustin is an active participant in the new Association of Contemporary Music (AFM-2), created and headed by Edison Denisov in 1989. His film works include music for Rustam Khamdamov’s film Anna Karamazoff , 1991 .

In 2016 - “composer in the residence” of the State Orchestra of Russia (project by Vladimir Yurovsky ).

The world premiere of the opera "Devil in Love" took place on February 15, 2019 at MAMT (Musical Theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko n / a Vl.Yurovsky;

Vustin’s musical language is characterized by extreme restraint, depth, semantic concentration, intense experience of time as a kind of space of actual musical action common to the author, performer and listener, and in this sense he can be called the heir to the traditions of Anton Webern .

Among the performers of his compositions are the GASO (EF Svetlanov State Orchestra ), the BBC Symphony Orchestra , conductors Vladimir Yurovsky , Lev Markiz , Alexander Lazarev, Igor Dronov, Rainbert de Leu , violinist Gidon Kremer , drummer Mark Pekarsky , saxophonist Claude Delangl , singers Svetlana Savenko , Alisa Gitsba , Elena Vasilyeva, etc.

• “Three Poems of Moses Teyf” ( 1966 ) for voice (bass) and piano (in the Russian translation of Yunna Moritz )
• String Quartet ( 1966 )
• Symphony ( 1969 ) for orchestra
• Three Toropetsky Songs ( 1972 ) for piano
• Nocturnes ( 1972 - 82 ) for chamber ensemble and high voice
• The Word ( 1975 ) for winds and percussions, ded. Gregory Frida
• Sonata for Six ( 1973 )
• Lamento ( 1974 ) for piano
• "Capriccio" (tunes from the collection of M. Beregovsky. 1977 - 82 ) for voice (mezzo-soprano), male voices and ensemble
• “In Memory of Boris Klyuzner” ( 1977 ) for voice, violin, viola, cello and double bass, to the text by Yuri Olesha
• Memoria-2 (concert, 1978 ) for drums, keyboards and strings
• The Tale ( 1979 ) for oboe solo
• “Homecoming” ( 1981 ) for voice and 13 instruments, poems by Dmitry Shchedrovitsky
• Kozma Prutkov 's Leisure ( 1982 ) for baritone and percussion
• "Dedication to Beethoven" ("Hommage à Beethoven", 1984 ) concert for percussion and chamber orchestra)
• "Holiday" ( 1987 ) for a children's choir and orchestra on the texts of Russian singing books of the 17th century
• “Devil in Love” ( 1975 - 1989 ) opera by J. Casott, libretto by Vl. Khachaturova (see: [1] )
• “Blessed are the poor in spirit” ( 1988 ) for countertenor and chamber ensemble
• “Action from Luigi” ( 1990 ) for percussion ensemble
• “White Music” ( 1990 ) for organ
• "Letter of Zaitsev" ( 1990 ) for voice, strings, bass drum and magn. tapes. Text by Sergey Zaitsev
• Music for the Film ( 1991 ) for percussion and orchestra
• “Music for Ten” ( 1991 ) to the text of Jean-Francois Lagarpe
• "Heroic Lullaby" ( 1991 ) for the ensemble
• “Dedication to the Son” ( 1992 ) for flute and ensemble
• "Three poems by Andrei Platonov " from the novel " Chevengur " ( 1992 ) for voice and ensemble
• Agnus Dei ( 1993 ) for mixed choir, percussion and organ
• The Little Requiem (Kleines Requiem, 1994 ) for soprano and string quartet
• “Music for the Angel” ( 1995 ) for saxophone, vibraphone and cello
• “Song from Platonov's novel” ( 1995 ) for choir and orchestra
• Disappearance ( 1995 ) for button accordion, cello and string orchestra
• “Fantasy” Dedication to Gidon Kremer ( 1996 ) for violin and orchestra
• Tango “Hommage à Guidon” ( 1997 ) for violin, string orchestra and percussion
• Trio ( 1998 ) for piano, violin and cello
• “The Birthday of Mark Pekarsky” ( 1998 ) for the percussion ensemble
• “Quiet Light” ( 1999 ) for voice
• "Praise the Earth" ( 1999 ) for children's voices and chamber orchestra to verses by Olga Sedakova
• Veni, Sancte Spiritus ( 1999 ) for choir, percussion and ensemble
• “Canto” ( 1999 ) for a singing string trio, words by A. S. Pushkin
• "Alone" ( 2000 ) for vibraphone solo
• Sine Nomine ( 2000 ) for orchestra
• “Night Haze" ( 2000 ) for children and mixed choir and chamber orchestra to verses by Boris Pasternak (part of a collective composition)
• “To Sofia” ( 2001 ) for voice (mezzo-soprano) and ensemble for Olga Sedakova ’s poem “Hermit Says”, dedicated. Sofia Gubaidulina
• "Epigraph" for an organ (in memory of Edison Denisov )
• “Voice” ( 2001 ) for viola (mezzo-soprano) solo, verses by Olga Sedakova
• The Seventh Word ( 2002 ) for the ensemble (part of a collective composition)
• “Spem in alium” ( 2003 ) for piano, voices (violas, basses) and ensemble for text from motet Thomas Tallis
• " Postlude " ( 2003 ) for the ensemble
• “Eve's Exposure” (“Look No. 5”, 2004 ) for the orchestra (part of a collective composition)
• “Offering” ( 2004 ) for the ensemble, ded. Gidon Kremer in memory of D. Shostakovich
• Credo ( 2004 ) for ensemble, ded. M. Dubov and A. Vinogradov in memory of E. Denisov
• Evening Birds ( 2006 ) for string trio
• “Theater” ( 2006 ) for voice (mezzo-soprano) and ensemble to poems by Dmitry Shchedrovitsky
• “Far Light” ( 2007 ) for the bassclarinet solo
• Musical Sacrifice ( 2007 ) for cello and piano
• “The Search for Sound” ( 2008 ) for solo bells and orchestra
• Canticum canticorum ( Song of Songs , 2010 ) for voices and ensemble
• Litania ( 2011 ) for percussion, voices and organ
• “From the Life of Elves” ( 2011 ) for piano, violin and cello
• “Wind” ( 2012 ) for choir and instrumental ensemble to the verses of Alexander Blok from the poem “ Twelve ”
• “Evening Sea" ( 2012 ) for a singing string trio, poems by Olga Sedakova
• Dedication ( 2013 ) for cello, drums and piano
• “In memory of Gregory Fried” ( 2014 ) for viola and piano
• The Song of Lukerya ( 2015 ) for magnetic film, folk voice and orchestra
• “Song of Ascent” ( 2016 ) for orchestra and voices
• “Three poems by Olga Sedakova ” ( 2017 ) for voice (bass) and orchestra

• Vustin A. Music is music (Conversation with E. Poldyaeva) // Academy of Music, 1993, No. 4
• Tsenova V. Alexander Vustin: The battlefield is the soul // Music from the former USSR. Vol. 1. M .: Composer, 1994 (in English in the book: Underground Music from the Former USSR. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998).
• Severin I. Creativity of Alexander Wustin // Academy of Music, 2003, No. 4.
• Shulgin D.I. Musical truths of Alexander Wustin . - M., 2008.

• classicalarchives.com
• sikorski.de (English)
• experts.about.com
• MGK them. Tchaikovsky (inaccessible link)
• A section of D. Shulgin’s personal site devoted to the composition, life technique, and analytical study of Alexander Wustin’s work by D. Shulgin , including on the basis of many years of personal conversations with the composer.