Ivanova, Victoria N.

Victoria Ivanova was born on September 22, 1924 in one of the oldest historical districts of Moscow - Lefortovo , in a family of physicians Nikolay and Lydia Ivanov. His father, who served as a military doctor in the Lefortovo Hospital , died when Victoria was 3 years old. The deceased father loved music and therefore, noticing the natural data of her daughter, the mother strongly promoted her musical development.

Victoria graduated from music school in piano. Then she studied vocal with O. F. Slavinskaya-Fedorovskaya - first at the school, then at the institute and graduate school of the Gnesins Institute of Music . After graduating with honors GMPI them. Gnesinyh in 1951 became the soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic (until 1998).

Iya, as Victoria was called by her relatives, married her classmate Yuri Petrovich Matusov. He was a bright man, a rare witticism of the mind and with an inexhaustible sense of humor, who knew world art and music very well.

The couple had a daughter, Catherine. Together with her mother she performed a duet on the radio; she sang in the fairy tale film “Frost” (Nastya). But at sixteen, after a brain surgery, her daughter became disabled. Soon the spouse died of a heart attack .

The last five years of her life, the singer practically did not leave the house - a serious illness did not allow her to perform. She lived in Moscow on Krasnoprudnaya street , 30/34.

Victoria Ivanova died on February 1, 2002 at the age of 77 years. She was buried at site 7 of the Vvedensky cemetery in Moscow.

Back in the years of study (from 1946), Viktoria Ivanova began recording on the radio and in 1960s gained wide popularity as a chamber and pop singer with a transparent, delicate timbre, with free and natural vocalization.

From the first performances on the radio and on the concert stage a diverse repertoire of the singer was taking shape, which was constantly expanded, enriched and entered the golden fund of All-Union radio recordings - over 200 sound recordings of her performance are stored in the Teleradiofound of Russia. Ivanova's repertoire consisted of music from different eras: classical, romantic, baroque. These are primarily M. I. Glinka , A. S. Dargomyzhsky , M. P. Mussorgsky , G. Schütz , I. S. Bach , J. Haydn , V. A. Mozart , L. Beethoven . She sang chamber works by R. Schumann , F. Schubert , I. Brahms , C. Debussy , G. Mahler . In her programs there were old French and English music, Russian ancient songs and romances, works by such Soviet composers as Sergei Prokofiev , Zara Levina , Matvey Blanter , Isaac Dunaevsky . The romance “You Do Not Understand My Sorrow” served as a singer’s trademark of sorts. As soon as this turned out to be legal, she began to sing a lot of old, religious and secular music.

Victoria Ivanova not only sang on the radio, but also appeared on television, widely gave concerts at home and abroad (Bulgaria, Finland, Japan, France, England and other countries). The singer performed with such outstanding masters as D. Oistrakh , I. Braudo , O. Erdeli , A. Lyubimov , N. Rabinovich , B. Fedoseev , N. Gutman , O. Kagan , English conductor and composer A. Roostorn.

Viktoria Ivanova also recorded songs for films and cartoons: “ Splinter ”, “ Dragonfly ”, “The Scarlet Flower ”, “The Little Mermaid ”.

Discography

• 1965 - Victoria Ivanova, soprano: romances. Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments USSR State Television and Radio Committee, dir. V. Fedoseev. - Moscow: Melody.
• 1966 - Victoria Ivanova, soprano: romances. Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments USSR State Television and Radio Committee, dir. V. Fedoseev. - Moscow: Melody.
• 1967 - Victoria Ivanova sings, soprano: arias and songs. Chamber orchestra, art. Head A. Gotlib. - Moscow: Melody.
• 1971 - Victoria Ivanova Sings, soprano: songs by I. Haydn and L. Beethoven. - Moscow: Melody.
• 1989 - Victoria Ivanova, soprano: ancient romances, songs. Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments USSR State Television and Radio Committee, dir. V. Fedoseev. - Moscow: Melody, Records of the All-Union Radio of the 1960s
• 1989 - Victoria Ivanova, soprano: F. Schubert (1797-1828). Songs. - Moscow: Melody. Records BP 1966 (2,10), 1969 (1.3-9, 11-14).

Cartoons sound

• 1946 - Song of Joy
• 1948 - Gray Neck
• 1949 - Mashakin concert - Masha
• 1950 - When Christmas Trees Are Lighted - Lucy Ivanova, The Snow Maiden
• 1953 - Naughty Kitten
• 1955 - Unusual match
• 1956 - Heavenly creature
• 1956 - Old Friends
• 1958 - Cat House - 1st Kitten

Vocals

• 1952 - Scarlet Flower - Nastenka's song “At this time in the birth party”
• 1954 - Dragonfly - the song "Wonderful May"
• 1957 - Splinter
• 1968 - Little Mermaid - Little Mermaid

A close friend of the singer, Julia Dobrovolskaya, described Victoria Ivanova as follows:

From God - a unique voice, voice-flute, from myself - masterly possession of him, telling about the funny and serious, about the sad and joyful sincerely, thoughtfully, mockingly, coquettishly, sternly, slyly ... These were skill achieved by earnest labor and, of course Femininity - radiant blue eyes, dazzling white skin, silver laughter, disarming smile.

- Julia Dobrovolskaya My friend Victoria. About singer Victoria Ivanova // Chaika. Seagul magazine. - 2007. - № 7 (90).

Zara Levina wrote about her:

Victoria is very demanding and "capricious." Her "whims" - the property of the artist, never calming on his success. Ivanova - slowdown. She decides for a long time the question: to sing or not to sing the work proposed to her, and if she refuses to perform, not because she does not like it, it means that she is not sure that she will be able to convey to the listener a romance, a song ... discover. Clean intonations, crystal sound, noble interpretation, good taste ... Composers and even bosses often take offense at Ivanov: “She sings little!” But her name is very popular. She does not sing that in which she does not feel an inner necessity.

- Chemberdzhi V .. There was music in the house. - M .: Agraf, 2002. - p. 209-210.

Lyubov Kazarnovskaya noted:

... having listened again to the voice of Victoria Nikolaevna Ivanova, we realized that there really is no such art, there is no such artist on chamber scenes today in Russia, to our great regret ... today there are no personalities - neither in timbres nor in performing style. There are practically none, they are not brought up ...

- Victoria Ivanova - the great chamber singer of Russia

Victor Astafiev :

Misfortunes, but all deafening, fell one after the other on the singer. The cheerful and mysterious husband still made himself, leaving his wife with a seriously ill adult daughter and, at the limit, for a living mother-in-law.
And the singer is in the very bloom of creative talent, and her angel-innocent, penetrating soul voice is often heard on the radio, rarely in concert halls. Speaking with triumphant success in Paris, Rome and Berlin, she, in order not to lose the vacancy at Mosconcert, which means a piece of bread, rolls around the out-of-town cities of our fatherland, where the rampant thunderous stage has already begun ...

- Book 6. Last Folk Symphony

1958 - Winner of the All-Union competition.
1973 - Awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR .
1999 - Awarded the Order of Honor .

• Ivanova [Victoria Nikolaevna] // Heinze - Yashugin. Additions A - Ya. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia: Soviet Composer, 1982. - Stb. 767. - (Encyclopedias. Dictionaries. Directories: Musical Encyclopedia : [in 6 vol.] / Ch. Ed. Yu. V. Keldysh ; 1973-1982, Vol. 6).
• Levina Z. Composers on the performers // Soviet Music. - 1964. - № 5. - p. 156-157.
• Victor Astafev. You do not understand my sadness // Zatezi . - M: Eksmo, 2007. - ISBN 978-5-699-25005-9 .
• Dobrovolskaya Yu. A. My friend Victoria. About singer Victoria Ivanova // Chaika. Seagull magazine. - 2007. - № 7 (90).

• Victoria Ivanova. Such she lives in our hearts // Elena Fabianovna Gnesina. Memoirs of contemporaries / M. Rittih. - 2nd ed .. - M .: "Practice", 2003. - p. 249-250. - ISBN 5-89816-038-8 .
• Maria Yudina. Correspondence by M. Yudina and V. Ivanova // In art, it is joyful to be together: correspondence from 1959–1961 / A. M. Kuznetsov. - M: ROSSPAN, 2009. - T. 4. - p. 344-346.

• Victoria Ivanova on the site "Modern Opera"
• V. Ivanova on youtube.com
• Photo of the gravestone on the grave of VN Ivanova at Vvedensky cemetery