Ivan Sergeevich Vishnevsky is a composer of the cantata and oratorio genre. His talent has been recognized by many music critics. He was the favorite of the great Georgy Sviridov.
Biography
Ivan Sergeevich Vishnevsky is a Russian composer and musician with an unusual destiny.
Although Ivan Vishnevsky was born in Moscow, the child spent the first years of his life in the United States of America. His father was an international journalist in Washington. He represented the Soviet newspaper Pravda.
Ivan's parents made sure that the boy was not cut off from his homeland. For the summer they sent Ivan to his grandmother, in the Ukrainian town of Akhtyrka. The boy spent time in the company of his relatives. He learned a lot about Gogol's places, which were located on the road from little Akhtyrka to Poltava. Picturesque Dikanka, Mirgorod, Velyki Sorochintsy - that's what remained a vivid childhood impression for Ivan. He listened with pleasure and remembered Ukrainian songs that sounded in his grandmother's house.
Ivan got his great musical impressions thanks to the radio. Educational programs for children told about the work of the classics, from the music of Johann Sebastian Bach to Russian composers such as Mussorgsky, Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov.
When my father's service as a correspondent in America ended, the family returned to Moscow. Parents loved to spend their holidays in Jurmala. Here, on the Riga seaside, music festivals and symphony evenings were often held, which were attended by the whole family of Ivan Vishnevsky.
In addition to music, Ivan was fond of zoology. He was educated in a circle of young biologists, he was very fond of travel, in which one could observe nature.
But the love of music overcame other hobbies.
Study and creative contribution
Ivan Vishnevsky began studying music quite late - at the age of 17. As a tenth grader in a comprehensive school, he entered a music school. He devoted himself completely to the exercises of playing the piano and did the impossible. After six months of intensive studies, Ivan Vishnevsky successfully enters the famous music school named after the revolution. The choice fell on the theoretical department.
Ivan Vishnevsky said that he heard music in his sleep. New melodies came to his mind, which he then wrote down on the staff. These were small chamber pieces.
Successful studies at the school led him to the composing department of the Gnessin Institute. Here, Gennady Vladimirovich Chernov was engaged in his professional training. Under his leadership, Vishnevsky creates pieces of music for the choir and the famous Symphonietta.
Work and difficult years
In 1986, the young composer found himself a job at the All-Union Radio - he was invited as a music editor. Working on the radio, Ivan Vishnevsky made a program about Georgy Vasilievich Sviridov, whom he met very closely. Sviridov praised the works presented to him by Vishnevsky. At one of the festivals organized by the great composer, songs and plays by Vishnevsky were performed.
The failed 90s greatly affected the fate of Ivan Vishnevsky. He failed to become a member of the Composers' Union, he lost his job on the radio. It was very hard for him, he had to work as a merchant in a station stall in order to survive.
Time passed and finally, Ivan Vishnevsky began to get out of a difficult situation. He took part in the creation of the "People's Radio". His creative interest returned and from under his pen appeared new choral works and concerts for piano, symphony.
Vishnevsky's works sounded again on the radio and on the stages of concert halls.
Ivan Vishnevsky died in 2018.
