Veniamin Petrovich Burygin (September 17, 1932 - February 19, 2004) - Soviet and Russian poet and songwriter, singer, artist of the State Volga Folk Choir, performer of Russian folk songs.
| Veniamin Burygin | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Veniamin Petrovich Burygin |
| Date of Birth | September 17, 1932 |
| Place of Birth | Shepelevka village, Turkovsky district , Lower Volga region , RSFSR , USSR |
| Date of death | February 19, 2004 (71 years old) |
| A country |  USSR →  Russia |
| Professions | composer |
| Genres | folk , russian folk music , |
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Biography
He was born on September 17, 1932 in the village of Shepelevka, Turkovsky district of the Lower Volga region in a large peasant family. At the end of the 7-year school, Veniamin entered the Saratov Industrial College . During his studies at the college, Benjamin began to actively participate in amateur performances , playing the Saratov accordion . In October 1951, the ensemble of Saratov harmonists at the House of Labor Reserves Culture, in which Burygin played, was invited to Moscow for the All-Union Amateur Art Show. Burygin participated in the final concert of the show, held at the Bolshoi Theater. Spectators of the concert were Stalin, Budenny, Voroshilov, other representatives of the Soviet political leadership. Burygin’s performance was pleasant to Stalin, after the concert Burygin received a prize: money for the purchase of a Saratov accordion. According to legend, the performance of Burygin pushed Stalin to the decision to open the Volga Folk Choir in Kuibyshev [1] .
In June 1952, the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR decided to open the Volga Folk Choir in Kuibyshev, of which Burygin became an employee. In the early years, the choir gave up to eighteen scheduled concerts a month, played the harmonica, miserable, sang in the choir, danced, conducted concerts and composed songs. In the Volga choir, Burygin met his wife, Valentina Mikhailova.
In the late 1980s, V. Burygin acted as an actor on the stage of the Samara Drama Theater in the play “The Brothers Karamazov,” where he played the Saratov accordion.
Songwriter
The authorship of Veniamin Burygin belongs to several hundred songs, about a hundred of them were written in collaboration with Grigory Ponomarenko , whom he considered his teacher. Also, its composers-co-authors were Vano Muradeli , Mikhail Chumakov , G. Vekshin, A. Savelyev, A. Sosnovsky, V. Zavidov, Yu. Bankovsky. The most famous songs:
- "Great to the builders of the hydroelectric station" - the first song of Burygin, dedicated to the commissioning of the Volga hydroelectric station Lenin .
- “Oh, Volga - the edge of the sea” (1954)
- "Harmonious song"
- “The Volgars are singing”
- "The Russian steppes have spread"
- “Oh, Volga River, not pain, heart”
- “A snow-white cherry blossomed under the window” (to the music of Mikhail Chumakov)
Memory
In 2005, in memory of Burygin in Samara, the song festival was called “Snow-white cherry blossomed under the window” - according to a line from the most famous song of Burygin [2] .