Sadovnikov, Victor Ivanovich

Viktor Ivanovich Sadovnikov was born on April 2, 1886 in the village of Shulgino in the Tambov province in a large family of a veterinarian with 14 children. Having a good voice, from the age of six he sang in a local choir. In 1897, after graduating from a rural school, he moved with his parents to the Voronezh province. From 1900 to 1904 he studied at the Tambov Teachers' Institute. Then, since 1904, he sang in the Moscow Synodal Choir. In 1905-1911 he studied at the Moscow State Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky (a singing teacher - W. Mazetti), he studied compositional classes with teachers: S. Taneyev , A. Ilyinsky, R. Glier (1909-1914). Education continued at Moscow People's University. Shaniavsky, in 1911-1914 he studied there at the Faculty of History and Philosophy. Simultaneously with his studies, from 1907 he performed under the pseudonym Polenov in concerts and operas in Moscow, Simbirsk (1908, the opera Faust), Pyatigorsk (1908), became the first performer of the Herald in the opera Demon by the Russian composer P. Blaramberg .

After graduation, since 1914 he performed as a chamber singer, sang romances by E. Grieg, M. Balakirev, F. Schubert, F. Liszt, R. Schuman and others. In the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory he performed with concerts “Pushkin in the Russian Romance” concerts dedicated to the works of S. Rachmaninov and P. Tchaikovsky.

In 1909-1911 he was a conductor and composer in the private Moscow Theater of K. Nezlobin , in 1913-1914 he worked in Moscow as a conductor of the Vaudeville Theater. From 1918 to 1923 he was a soloist and conductor of the Bolshoi Theater Opera Studio. At the Bolshoi Theater, under the direction of director Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky, he prepared the party of Lensky.

In 1921, Viktor Ivanovich Sadovnikov organized an opera and symphony orchestra in Moscow and until 1929 was his artistic director, at the same time performed with the orchestra in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, in the Radio Center and other venues of the capital. In 1946 he was the organizer and artistic director of the male vocal quartet. F. I. Chaliapin at the Radio Committee.

Viktor Ivanovich Sadovnikov led a lot of teaching in the country. In 1911-1919 he taught at the Moscow People’s Conservatory, led singing and art history in the third Moscow Real School of Shelaputin. From 1919 to 1937 he taught the class of solo singing at the Musical College named after A. K. Glazunov and in musical technical schools named after Gnesins and them. A.V. Lunacharsky. In 1922-1930 he was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. In the same place, from 1925 to 1927 he was dean of the vocal faculty, in 1930-1937 he worked as a teacher (solo singing class, chamber and opera) at the Academic Music School at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory . In 1934-1937 he worked in the Tatar Studio at the Moscow Conservatory. From 1937 to 1938 and in 1941 to 1943 he was a professor and dean of the vocal faculty of the Sverdlovsk Conservatory. From 1938 to 1941, he held the position of professor in the chamber and vocal ensemble classes at the Central Correspondence Music and Pedagogical Institute. In the years 1944-1964 he taught the class of solo singing at the Institute of GMPI im. Gnesins, professor GMPI. The pupils of Viktor Ivanovich Sadovnikov at different times were musicians: P. Chekin, S. Vermel, S. Deinichenko, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1957) F. Nasretdinov .

In 1928, he created a laboratory of experimental phonetics at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1930-1932 he held the position of senior researcher at the Research Institute of Radio and Television, from 1931 he was the head of the vocal laboratory of sound technology in the same research institute, wrote a number of works on the study of human voice and singing techniques.

In 1945-1947 he worked as a senior researcher at the Institute of Theory and History of Pedagogy of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. At the same time, from 1934 to 1949 he worked as artistic director and conductor of the orchestra of scientific workers and the choir chapel created by him at the Regional Committee of the Higher School Workers' Union.

He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery .

• Cantata “15 years of the October Revolution” (lyrics by A. Erkova, 1932), for choir and symphony orchestra;
• The opera tale “At Princess Ding” (1909, K. Nezlobin Theater, Moscow);
• The poem “Moscow is behind us” (lyrics by S. Vasiliev, 1945), for soloists, choir, reader and symphony orchestra;
• Cantata in memory of V. I. Lenin (lyrics by D. Poor, 1924), for soloists, choir and symphony orchestra;
• Vocal quartets, romances, songs on verses of Russian poets, processing of folk songs;
• I am a mother-cheese land (words by P. Buturlin, 1914), for voice and symphony orchestra.

• Orthoepy in singing / V.I.Sadovnikov. - M.: GITIS, 2001. ISBN 5-7196-0235-6 ;
• Old pronunciation norms in singing // Russian Speech. 1967. No. 5. P. 31—33;
• Memoirs of the Moscow Conservatory in 1905 // Memoirs of the Moscow Conservatory / Comp. and comment. E. N. Alekseeva and G. A. Pribegina, total. ed. N.V. Tumanina. - M., 1966;
• Elements of the artistic and performing development of the singer // Questions of vocal pedagogy. Vol. 4. - M., 1969;
• Memoirs of S.I. Taneev. in TsGALI, f. 2985, on. 1 unit hr 539.

• Evening songs V.I. Sadovnikova // Screen. 1922. No. 8;
• Eusebius. Evening songs V.I. Sadovnikova // Ibid. 1922. No. 22;
• Bugoslavsky S. Concert V.I. Sadovnikova // Spectacles. 1923. No. 36;
• Zakoshanskaya, L.V. Sadovnikov // Sov. music. 1956. No. 7; V.I.Sadovnikov. (Obituary) // Ibid. 1964. No. 8;
• Gnesina E., Yurovsky A. Characteristic of the creative and pedagogical activities of Professor Sadovnikov V.I. (hands) - at the State Center for Science and Technology of Moscow, f. 250 units hr 476.

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