Arkady Ostrovsky - Soviet songwriter. The honored art worker of the RSFSR wrote the songs “Childhood Went Into the Distance, ” “Tired Toys Sleep, ” “Let There Always Be Sunshine, ” “Lumberjacks, ” “I Am Very Happy, ” which have become popularly loved.
Arkady Ilyich Ostrovsky created many famous children's songs. Biography of Abraham Ostrovsky began in Syzran in 1914. He was born on February 25. The name of the boy was then changed to Arkady. Father, Ilya Ilyich, tuned the instruments. He was a good pianist, but because of the injury he had to say goodbye to his dream of a professional career.
The beginning of creativity
Parents noticed the giftedness of the son early. The boy studied piano. He liked to do. True, Arkady played etudes with pleasure, and the scales quickly bothered him. Then the young musician began to improvise. By fourteen Ostrovsky turned into a virtuoso.
In 1927, he moved to Leningrad. Training began with Ivan Belozemtsev, but he had to be interrupted. The young man entered FZU to help his father raise his younger brother Roman (Raphael). Teachers predicted his career as an excellent blacksmith. At one point, the guy played a waltz at a piano randomly left in the club. Then he replaced the musician and began to earn extra money at the club.
Soon, classes with Belozemtsev resumed. He recommended a talented student to enter a music college. Arkady followed the council in 1930. Sometimes he had to sacrifice his beloved studies to help his younger brother. Arkady was engaged in orchestrations, played in the evenings in the orchestra. He created a concert crew with his bandmates.
The tour began. By chance, the young musician was lucky enough to meet Rakhlin on the train. In 1940, he offered Ostrovsky a place in the Utesov State Orchestra. Acquaintance with the team took place in the capital. Everyone liked the new member. New tours began. Arkady was a pianist, accordionist and arranger.
By the beginning of the war, Arkady Ilyich decided to start a composer career. However, the Great Patriotic War prevented the implementation of plans. With the orchestra, Ostrovsky traveled along the fronts. The musician had to constantly engage in arrangements. In wartime, the first works of the young composer were also written. He created songs for poems passed on to him. Among them were the works of Sergei Mikhalkov. For the first time he performed the works “Native Side” and “I am Demobilized” by Leonid Utesov. The songs were received with great approval by the listeners.
Composer activity
After the war, the wife persuaded her husband to quit his job in the orchestra and engage in a solo career. But Arkady Ilyich was in no hurry to leave his comrades. He agreed to his wife's proposal only two years later. The main argument was the words of the composer Mark Fradkin. In 1947, Arkady repeatedly tried to return to the orchestra, where he was repeatedly called. However, this decision was not welcomed by the spouse.
In 1948 he was admitted to the Union of Composers. The career and creative growth of Ostrovsky began. Very soon Arkady Ilyich turned into a writer beloved by the whole country. At first, the beginning composer wrote his works to order. However, more and more often, in his works, light lyrics were visible. Finally, he became the ancestor of a new pop trend, the domestic cycle.
His love songs sounded, the combination of a guitar with a button accordion was especially successful. Fame came after meeting and working with Lev Oshanin, a poet. In 1948, their song "Komsomol members - restless hearts" won the first prize in the competition. In 1954, Claudia Shulzhenko performed Ostrovsky's work My Old Park on the radio. The song immediately became popular.
Fame
The composer wrote songs for the World Festivals of Youth and Students. In 1962, together with Lev Oshanin, the famous "May there always be sunshine" was created. At the International Song Festival in Sopot, she received the first prize.
The lyric cycle "And in Our Yard" was written in 1962-19065 in collaboration with Oshanin. 5 songs entered the cycle. The most famous singers performed the composer's works.
Ostrovsky’s talent in children's creativity was especially well revealed. And to this day the soundtrack created by him sounds “Sleeping tired toys”, which has become legendary.
The composer had unlimited love for the kids. Therefore, they became a separate topic of his work. Often, all the kids rode in his car. All the love of the writer and his soul was invested in songs for children. On behalf of Pinocchio, the cycle of children's songs of the musician was sung by singer Eva Sinelnikova.
