Mikael Leonovich Tariverdiev - a famous Soviet and Russian composer, People's Artist of the USSR. He is known to the general listener primarily as the author of film music ("The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath", "Seventeen Moments of Spring", etc.). But the composer also wrote operas, romances, vocal cycles and serious instrumental music.
Biography
Mikael Tariverdiev was born on August 15, 1931 in Tiflis in an Armenian family. Michael spent his entire conscious life with music. He studied at the music school in piano, then at the music school in composition, and then entered the Yerevan Conservatory, where he studied for only a year and a half. Mikael Tariverdiev’s serious talent became crowded in his native Armenia, and the future composer went to conquer Moscow.
Mikael Tariverdiev entered the Gnesins Moscow Musical Pedagogical Institute to study composition. His mentor was Professor Aram Khachaturian, who immediately discerned a young talent.
Soon, the composer wrote a vocal cycle, which was performed by the famous chamber singer Zara Dolukhanova in the large hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Recognition began to slowly approach the composer. Soon he made his film debut in the film "The Youth of Our Fathers."
The music of Tariverdiev has a special, unique to him alone, color. Here is a combination of classical musical canons with Armenian intonations and Soviet dynamics. Mikael Tariverdiev tried to combine the academic means of expression and the interests of the mass audience. And he completely succeeded, therefore, Tariverdiev’s music is so beloved by the Soviet and Russian listeners.
Mikael Tariverdiev died at the age of sixty-four years from a heart attack. He was buried at the Armenian cemetery in Moscow.
